In reply to Development & Beta Tests. How & Why
bigal0228•31st of October 2009
 
We live in an Instant Gratification World now. By now, anyone complaining about release dates and such, and using a BETA on a live site should just be ignored and the real work continued towards making a final release of D7 stable, secure, and functional. If the "I want it NOW" crowd hasn't figured it out by now, they never will.
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CALTRADE•31st of October 2009•to bigal0228
 
You have developed a highly modified version of D6.1.6. It is a good site. I know this because I looked at it when Houston was accusing you of being "a spammer" after you made a blog post telling us how proud you were of it, and happy you were with the technology. Now you are here mocking people who have taken a different approach - calling us the "I want it now" crowd and saying our opinions should not be respected and we "should just be ignored".

Should I remind see more you that there was a time when your opinions weren't respected - to the extent that Boonex was forced to delete your post - even though you were essentially praising them? You might have been the last one here to make a heavily modified D6 site - so I doubt that upgrading to D7 will not be all that easy. With Andrew now saying the beta that was supposed to be ready last week will now be ready next week, would you advise anyone to take your same approach? - i.e. to heavily modify a D6 site? When everyone has their D7 sites working, and it turns out that there is some feature you want, would you like people to mock you and say you were a fool to modify a D6 site just before the new release, and that you should "just be ignored". Think about it.
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CALTRADE•31st of October 2009•to bigal0228
 
and by the way bigal - have you done any testing of any of the betas yet? If you have, I certainly haven't seen you report any bugs or issues. I've loaded and configured all eight betas - some multiple times. In fact, have you even lifted one little finger to help with the beta? If you ever do use D7, you will certainly be taking advantage of the work of the people who have done this work. Do you really think you have the right to say "they should be ignored".
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bigal0228•1st of November 2009•to bigal0228
 
Nope, havent messed with D7 at all. Just recently installed 6.16 after waiting about a year for it to smooth out. It is each individual's choice as to whether or not they wish to beta test a product, I just do not have time to do testing as my site takes my full-time attention.
My opinion has not changed about ignoring those who are continually complaining about release dates and so forth. When a final version is released, go for it. Until then, either contribute to it's development as you see more have stated, or just deal with it until it does come out.
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