Re: [other] High Resistance mode?

by Vano Beridze :: Rate this Message:

Jiri Kovalsky wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> Thomas Börkel wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Hmm, there are lots of P3 bugs open. Shouldn't the date be pushed back
>> further?
>
> We unfortunately can't fix all P1, P2 and even P3 bugs before
> releasing NetBeans 6.0. When planning 6.0 release we set up a Quality
> Criteria [1] that must be met for FCS.
> [1] http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/NB6QualityCriteria
>

I have a dream to have a NetBeans release containing no new features,
just a big bundle of bug fixes
and making things work right. I understand that every release brings
some major rewrite of some part
of IDE that was not working as expected, but that process can be infinite.
We got New Windowing System, New Project Management system, New
Refactorings, New Editor, New version control management system, New
Matisse builder, New Visual JSF Designer. I should have missed something.
Many bugs have been collected after these new features have been
introduced. During past netcat programs
we got the situation where some bugs were critical for me but they were
waved because they were not critical for the release. The result is that
We've always got IDE that has really cool features but with the
introduction of that cool features usability goes down. I'm afraid that
NetBeans 6.0 will have to many bugs
because the release date is really close.

> We believe that this is an ambitious while realistic goal in terms of
> quality. If we lower the total bug counts it would automatically
> postpone the release. Original planned FCS date was October 15th and
> already now it slipped to December 3rd (already 7 weeks delay) because
> of bug fixing problems. We can't do this forever.
>
> Does it makes sense?
> -Jirka
>
>

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Vano Beridze
Software Developer
Silk Road Group

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