Public Betas...

[Rick Thomas]

Dan,

You're right of course.  If people won't put their money where their
mouths are, they get what you can afford to offer.

So how about this?  The YDL/enhanced crowd *is* willing to put up money
for early access.  Maybe some of them would be willing to act as beta
testers too?  I'm betting that the size of the YDL/enhanced crowd is
small enough, and the average experience level is high enough, that YDL
would wind-up with a net positive on the available human-power ledger.

What do you think?  Is it worth a try for YDLv3.1?  You can accomplish
great things with volunteer labor.

Rick


Dan Burcaw wrote:
> 
> No, it's not surprising. When people don't pay to support us, we can't
> hire a dedicated quality assurance. Your likely response will be "well
> do public betas".  Frankly, the same man power issue comes up again.
> Just reading hundreds of bug reports would require more people then
> we have.  Solution: if you want fewer bugs, you gotta put up the bucks.
> 
> That said, this is the best release ever. I'm trying to feel good about
> that despite people jumping all over this bug.
>