-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Peugeot <mark@ptw.com>
To: Scott Drassinower <scottd@cloud9.net>
Cc: mark@ptw.com <mark@ptw.com>; portmaster-users@livingston.com
<portmaster-users@livingston.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: (PM) Stable v.90
|Scott,
| As you probably know I am not a lucent developer. Instead I have
|been doing flight analysis programming and simulation programming on the
B-2
|bomber program for the past 5 years. I think I might have an understanding
|of how software deployment works.
| I agree that while one step forward and two back doesn't make much
|sense, however b16 may solve problems unique to my situation and break
stuff
|I don't even need or use. I mean if they broke RIP that could be a
|catastrophe for many users, however if I only use BGP or OSPF, what do I
|care.
| I know that if I held up flight test for 60 days because my code
|didn't work and I refused to release a new "beta", I would be replaced.
|Flight testing aircraft is expensive and even a one day delay can cost
|millions of dollars.
| In closing I agree with your statement below, don't ever use beta
|software unless you are confident you can handle the consequences.
|
|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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