Remember the old Zenith logo: "The Quality Goes in Before the Name Goes On".
The new marketing is "The Bugs go in, and it is sold, before it is fixed"
I saw the above quote posted here the other day, with a smiley.
It was not my post, but I thought that it was food for thought, and should not have been deleted.
I wish bugs disappeared as quickly as some posts do!!
I trust that management is not so brittle as to entertain a little jest and some friendly suggestions:
1-I would rather see the next beta delayed a few days (even a week), if that would help get 'the quality in first".
2-Does JRiver have a Quality Assurance Test program which would consist of running the software against a database of past bugs. Is there a formal list of past bugs, consisting of a set of Keystroke/clicks>results. I have been involve in sw testing and such a list (sometimes automated) can go a long way to achieve Zenith's old fashion way of doing things. Why not write a keyboard/mouse-click testing driver for MJ, to automate Q/A. Each test could allow keying in the result (if the program does not crash!!), and then go to the next test. At the least this should reduce the all too frequent re-appearance of past bugs.
Zenith was one of the last, if not THE last, company to give up hand point-to-point wiring of their boards.
Technicians loved it because they could actually show off their knowledge and fix the boards.
As the now deleted post mentioned, the tense of Dylan/Zimmerman's 'The Times They Are A-Changin' should be updated to the times HAVE CHANGED. At least for the software industry, marketing consists of sell the beta, then fix it.
from Zenith Radio: The Early Years 1919-1935
by Cones, Harold/Bryant, John:
"Zenith's "The Quality Goes in Before the Name Goes On" is one of the most recognized, and well earned, corporate mottos in America. Founded by two Navy radiomen in 1919, luck and the infusion of capital from a wealthy adventurer and car salesman started the Zenith Radio Corporation on a journey that would propell it to the top of the United States electronics manufacturing industry. The rise was an interesting one, the cast of high profile."
http://www.antiqueradios.com/books.shtmlAlso,
http://www.pcworld.com/features/article/0,aid,73843,00.asp