Subject: Re: Another LW bug!
From: [email-masked] (Mark Thompson)
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 95 00:36:09 EST

"Daniel J. McCoy" <[email-masked]> writes:
> Actually, I'm not sure if they read the list messages

But Brad does.

> I sincerely hope the LightWave project managers take a very
> close look at the beta program they currently have.

Already have. Many beta sites are being removed because they didn't report
anything, and just took advantage of the free advanced releases.

> Some of these bugs are downright blatent and SHOULD have been caught in the
> beta process.

Well there are several reasons for that to happen.
1) New bugs that suddenly show up just before release have the least
   opportunity to be caught.
2) It is not uncommon for the final release to ship before many of the
   beta testers even see it.
3) What some people consider blatant bugs, may be quite obscure to others.
4) Some problems inevitably are configuration dependant, and a multi-
   platform release makes that infinitely harder to test all configs.
5) Many aspects of the final release are never seen by the beta testers,
   such as the installer software.
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