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Re: Software design, beta testing, and the like
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Re: Software design, beta testing, and the like


  • Subject: Re: Software design, beta testing, and the like
  • From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 01:13:56 -0800

At 17:57 -0700 1/16/2002, Michelle Steiner wrote:
>>Thank you for that informative tale. However, had I been in charge of the
>>project, and it was last minute, and it was clear there were bugs to be
>>squashed and changes to be made, I would move the deadline so that "last
>>minute" would magically become "next to last minute."
>
>I doubt that Chris had that authority.

And there were no second chances...v3 was known to be the end of the line,
and Claris was vanishing. Game/Set/Match. And from the time-frame
involved: "What's a 'software update control panel"?'

--John

--
John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA


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