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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.2 Notes and a bug (kinda)
Message-ID: <1277@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Jun-86 15:58:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1277
Posted: Tue Jun 10 15:58:50 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Jun-86 00:30:12 EDT
References: <465@elmgate.UUCP> <357@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <469@elmgate.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimm@homer.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
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In article <469@elmgate.UUCP> jdg@elmgate.UUCP (Jeff Gortatowsky) writes:
>
>My (and everyone elses for that matter) 1.2 beta2 has got alot more
>serious problems with it than bad distribution disks however.  It was not
>ready for beta testing. No way, no how.  Sure it's nice to use your
>developers as QA people and to receive feedback. But my experiance with 1.2
>has been negative enough that I'm considering going back to 1.1 to continue
>development until I get a version of 1.2xx that at least works as well as
>1.1. Or at least doesn't cause new bugs in things that did work before.
>

Let me make it very clear for you.  You ARE in fact the rigorous testers.
The so-called alpha phase consisted of a small release to developers,
the so-called beta phase consists of a wider distribution.  We are depending
on developers to be exercising these releases.

If you are interested in a solid 1.2 system release, you will continue
to use and exercise the beta releases.   Many people are doing so, reporting
the bugs they find, and claim to be generally happy.

You were sent information on how to report bugs.  We try to make sense out
of problems posted to usenet, but you really should send them directly
to us. 

To report bugs:
	Nancy Rains
	Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
	983 University Ave. Bldg D.
	Los Gatos, CA.  95030
	or ...pyramid!amiga!nancy
>
>Before you go flame me to a crisp.  I DO REALIZE this is beta stuff. I just
>think it should be ALPHA.  Further it looks like they paid to much
>attention to what we, the programmers wanted and not enough to honing and
>perfecting what they already had.  
>

I don't think this newsgroup deserves a long discussion on the naming of
different test phases.  There hasn't been a lot of time to worry about the
public relations aspects of naming this release.  In my experience, alpha 
and beta had more traditional meanings, to be sure.

>Flame away.....

Cool your jets.

			jimm