"Alain" <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message 
news:4706986d@news.povray.org...
> 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:

>>>>> POV-Ray beta 22 is now out of date, which means I have to screw around 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
> -------------------------------------------------
> 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Yes I know exactly why they do it.  But I personally dont think its a good 
enough reason to have the time limit.  Other beta programs work fine without 
a time limit plus (as mentioned) there are other ways to get around what you 
have said.

Cheers Dre

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