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How about calling it a "beta"?

How about calling it a "beta"?

Posted Mar 2, 2006 18:20 UTC (Thu) by bjanz (subscriber, #1560)
Parent article: Testing the bleeding edge

Then we could convince corporate managers that it's the coming thing, that they'll have to dump their current hardware to use it, and that it has a better interface then the previous version.

We could tell users about all the neat features in the new release, and then come up with a list of features to remove at the last minute.

Of course, we'd have to start using build numbers. That way, we could release "Build xyzzy" as a beta to the "community"...

...hold on...

...was just told that it's been done already.

Sorry...

\burt
(tongue firmly implanted - heck, *embedded* - in cheek... :-))


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