[mb-users] Digest of a personal thread that Fuchs started (Was: Uff ...)

[Steve Wyles]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Simon Reinhardt wrote:

> Bogdan Butnaru wrote:
>> I just thought of something while composing the next phrase: did you
>> notice how google and yahoo do their tests? After the internal testing
>> phase, they make the new version available _on the real data_, to a
>> select (but increasing) group of users. Sometimes google just picks
>> users at random and gives them a different interface to see how they
>> react. We could do similar (this works for interface issues, though):
>
> Realising features to randomly activate features would be quite some work and 
> overkill I think.
>
Also running a test server in tandem against the live database would be 
very unwise.

Steve