RE: recomendations for creating a beta with date to expire
RE: recomendations for creating a beta with date to expire
- Subject: RE: recomendations for creating a beta with date to expire
- From: Shawn Bakhtiar <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:55:47 -0400
- Importance: Normal
But you are forcing your users hand, which is never a good thing. They may need more time, or lack the resources to continually upgrade.
I tent to give users choice, and as much as possible build the app forward compatible (get the Model(VC) right from the beginning, it means A LOT). You can't do it always, but shirking that responsibility to the user, by having them HAVE TO upgrade, is just bad form, again this is just MHO.
> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:46:57 -0400
> To: email@hidden; email@hidden
> From: email@hidden
> CC: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: recomendations for creating a beta with date to expire
>
> At 8:35 AM -0600 8/15/11, Scott Ribe wrote:
> >Generally, but closed betas are the one case where expirations
> >really make sense. It is after all a beta, and you do not want
> >someone still running the beta a year after the actual release, just
> >because the person who was your contact for testing forgot where all
> >he installed it.
>
> I'm had good luck just using a dumb date check and telling users they
> can set their clock back to get around it if need be.
>
> My goal to force users to test new betas rather than use the first
> one that works for them and to prevent having to support old betas
> left in the field.
>
> (I have had bugs introduced late in the beta cycle ship because no
> one was testing the later betas)
>
> -Steve
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