Mark Peugeot,
Network One
>
> Are you a Lucent developer? Are you in contact with the developers to the
> extent that you are aware of the progress they are making on each part of
> the code that needs work?
>
> If you are making the above statement, you obviously have not done too
> much software testing. The point isn't to release new code every time an
> advance is made (new feature or bug fix), but to release new code when an
> advance that is made that simultaneously doesn't cause other problems.
> One step forward and two steps back is useless, and doesn't do much except
> make people look silly and waste their time.
>
> How about this statement:
>
> Don't ever use beta software if 1) you don't have a suitable environment
> to test it in or 2) you don't feel like dealing with problems that might
> be caused by the beta, even if you do have a suitable environment.
>
> --
> Scott M. Drassinower scottd@cloud9.net
> Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc. White Plains, NY
> +1 914 696-4000 http://www.cloud9.net
>
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