From: Rasmus Plewe (rplewe_at_suse.de)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2007 - 23:22:41 CEST
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:22:41 +0200 From: Rasmus Plewe <rplewe@suse.de> Message-ID: <20070411212241.GB14080@coredump.suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES10 SP1 in public beta. My congratulations to SuSe team!
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:36:07PM -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> On 4/11/07, Alexei_Roudnev <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com> wrote:
> >
> >Yes, but you got a chance to find a critical failures BEFORE you released
> >final version. For the zero price.
>
> yep ... it just seems more like what an OSS company would do
Probably it wasn't clear what I meant: If you release a beta version,
the expectation you set is that feedback will lead to changes in the
system. While this is true for beta, it mostly isn't for RC. I believe
that it does more harm than good releasing RC versions as "public
beta". OTOH, releasing a beta/RC version as "preview" (like we did for
Brainshare) is different.
> >O.B. != 'you can go and download', it is at least 'anyone woth subscription
> >can request access, explaining what exactly he is going to test'.
>
> I also agree with this ... it really seems to me that a much broader
> beta cycle would be good for all concerned. Do you have any
> suggestions, Rasmus, as to whom it would be most effective to contact,
> in order to encourage this change in beta process?
As usual, it comes down to resources. Our resources are limited, and we
try to use them as effectively as possible. We have the closed beta
program, not because our OpenSource code is so very secret, but because
we need to control the load. Doubling the number of beta testers does
not give you twice as many discovered bugs, but an increased number of
duplicates, false alarms, of administration and communication.
So we need to balance the additional coverage against the additional
overhead, with our finite resources.
I guess most effective would be Product Management, as they are the ones
collecting the needs of our customers, and allocating resources to
fulfill them.
Regards,
Rasmus
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