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[JimH]

A nice news.com article on the dilemna software makers face -- when to let go.

http://news.com.com/A+long+winding+road+out+of+beta/2100-1032_3-5571590.html?tag=nefd.top

[GHammer]

I'm a believer in the final paragraph.

[ paragraph added by JimH ]
"One classic way to get caught in an endless beta cycle is if the development team doesn't have the discipline to freeze features," said Jon Mittelhauser, who co-authored Mosaic and was a founding member of Netscape. "They can keep trying to squeeze one more little 'safe' feature into the product, which inevitably has some side effect--bugs somewhere else--and starts the vicious cycle all over. This often happens with the 'best' developers because they don't want to be sitting around fixing little bugs; they want to be implementing major features."

[KingSparta]

Everything I make is always in Beta

As a mater of fact i am also "Beta" sue has been playing with my code for almost 29 years

[jaguar.x]

Oh betas, those have always been my trouble, I have never wanted to release a version because it always has some feature that could be improved in so many different ways.

I think that we could not live without a beta version of the software we make, from the prototypes until the release of "version 1" we are improving a product that must have a "road map" which shows the start and the end of the project we are involved, this map must have as structured programming model only one point of exit avoiding the recursive loops.

There is a fact for developers, we always want to keep running, and personally I like to develop software and always want to be in front of an IDE coding my ideas.

Regards

Douglas