Dre nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/10/04 21:09:
> "Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote in 
> message news:47057eb5$1@news.povray.org...
>> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>> dkanter escribió:
>>>> POV-Ray beta 22 is now out of date, which means I have to screw around 
>>>> with
>>>> my system clock to get it to function.
>>>>
>>>> Could the powers that be put beta 23 online?  It would be nice to have a
>>>> functional beta version of the application available as soon as the old 
>>>> one
>>>> expires.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> David Kanter
>>>> Editor
>>>> Real World Tech
>>>>
>>> If you use a beta version, you will have to deal with that issue. Next
>>> beta will be online when devs have time to do it.
>> Which (for windows) ought to be this weekend.
>>
>> Starting with that beta I will be changing things such that after the
>> expiry date, a warning is displayed which has to be clicked-through rather
>> than not running at all. Though there probably still will be an absolute
>> timeout, it will be in the order of six to twelve months or so.
>>
>> -- Chris
> 
> I still believe you will get more testers if you totally remove the timeout 
> (dont even get me started on the idea of a nag warning to click through! 
> Bad bad bad!!!!!).  Having to keep mucking around with date/time settings to 
> get it to run or reverting back to 3.6 is a pita so I for one dont bother 
> with any betas.  If however there was no nag, or timeout, I would be more 
> than happy to beta test.
> 
> Cheers Dre 
> 
> 
Do you know WHY there is an expiration on beta? It's there so that developers 
are not pestered about old bugs that have already been corrected in the newer 
version(s).
I've seen cases, with other products, where bug reports were filed for some 
early beta releases MONTHS after the final version was released. Some times, 
around a year, maybe more, after the affected beta release was replaced by the 
next, whitch effectively corrected that very same bug.
There was several cases when those to late bug reports actualy caused serious 
setback in the development process, as the beta version was NOT provided by the 
"bug" reporter.

-- 
Alain
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