Hello Stefan Tanurkov & everyone else, on 30-Okt-2005 at 12:29 you (Stefan Tanurkov) wrote:
> I am sorry for lack of communication with testers and users, but it takes > really long time and we have too much job to do and, as I told you > before, we are limited in resources. I'm puzzled - again. Just from looking at the sheer number of coders that are assigned to BT reports (9Val, VV, Maxim, Diman, you... forgot someone for sure, sorry), I always thought there were many programmers, and that *this* is the reason why "fancy features" make it into the program while people are waiting for bug fixes - my understanding was, that not everyone is an IMAP guru and thus only few people can work on the IMAP issues, while others care for the GUI and whatnot. From what you say now however, for some it must be even less understandable that new features are introduced while other bugs remain. In the end, whats really missing for me: a *plan*, and I don't mean your vision of the program, but a set of rules when and how a new official version is released. In other, and very direct words: who makes the m*r*n decision to release a "final" overnight, without a Release Candidate, without a final chance for the beta testers to catch the last minute glitch? This is more than chaotic. I mean... all of a sudden, there's a 3.62.08 version in the MSI package, and no one knows about it, your website only says "3.62 has been released" per 28th of October. But that final includes three versions until now (3.62.05, 3.62.07, 3.62.08) - how would a user that is not on TBBETA, who downloaded the "3.62 final" Friday night, know that there's a more recent version in the installer, now that its Sunday? There's nothing wrong in putting a statement on the website that a last minute bug was fixed past the first release, thats nothing to be ashamed of. The hastily release of "3.62 final" seems to bounce back at you quite heavily... please, take a DEEP DEEP breath and start acting with reason again, because, release-wise, it rather feels like chaos at the moment, and that IS something to be ashamed of. -- Best regards, Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de - ICQ 238153981) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.62.07 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
