Re: Opening Up the Delphi Field Test

Bob wrote:


I am fairly surprised that you chose to implement rather baroque
restrictions on the field test.

How do you feel they are baroque?

Theres 5 statements:

1. dont ask to test if you just wanna see whats new.
2. Please only ask to join if you are really willing to test
3. You will have to sign something legal to say you wont talk about it
4. Be into win32 coding
5. Be positive.

Hows that baroque?

How many people sign up for beta tests due to reason 1 alone.. MS
demonstrated this with the if you havent found a but you dont get a
free copy.. You shouldnt have to bribe people to write bug reports. I
write a freeware app, Ive booted off beta testers who dont send
feedback but keep downloading betas because they are of no help. Now,
it is feasable they didnt find anything, but they were all asked to
fill in a form, at the end, irrelevant of any bug reports to say "I
have tested this and I did/didnt find problems with it" .. just one
check box.. if they cant be bothered to do this, then they're only
doing it it seems for glory of saying "Im on the beta" which in this
case, they cant do by what it says.

An awful lot of companies dont like you talking of their betas, because
not all features are set in stone, bugs in the beta hopefully will be
removed so theres no point talking of them, The company itself would
rather market the new things than leave it to those on the beta test,
because it provides control and centralisation of the focus.

I just dont see why thats baroque, unless you fall into category 1 and
feel thwarted.

--
Liz the Brit
Delphi things I have released: http://www.xcalibur.co.uk/DelphiThings
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