Rick [Kitty5] <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote:
: but then it will never be released - you have to at some point come to the
: decision that enough is enough and its time for a public beta - afterall
: thats what beta is for....

  I really don't understand this.

  Firstly: There can only be a finite amount of bugs in a code. It can't take
an infinite time to fix them.

  Secondly: What's the point in releasing a beta version with *KNOWN* bugs?
  You say "that's what beta is for". No, it isn't. A beta release is to
discover unknown bugs, that is, bugs which testing did not find.
  Releasing a beta with known bugs just causes tons of reports of those known
bugs. What's the point? "Thanks for your bug report, but we already knew
that". Kind of useless, isn't it?

  (Don't bother answering with "but beta-testing can also discover unknown
bugs besides the known ones". Of course it can, but better get rid of the
known bugs first so that the developers can concentrate on the new ones which
come up with the beta testing.)

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