[mb-users] "Edit All" - Is it problematic to understand?

[Rod Begbie]

On 7/17/06, Stefan Kestenholz <keschte at gmail.com> wrote:
> In lots of parts of the site, it has bettered. Are you my paying
> customer, what makes you think that you tell what i have to do?

Stefan --

We're a community.  We all want to see MB get better.  Steve & I (and
others) have concerns about some of the things that were implemented.
We raised them as bugs.  A lot of them got shot down by you as "Works
for Me".

We still think they need to be worked on.

> the testing phase was long enough to fix things that were reported
> during that phase. If people either aren't interested and don't test,
> or if they are scared and therefore don't test, then we had no other
> option to just release it and collect feedback afterwards

If I may...

I looked at the server round about June 8th, when the testing was
announced on the blog
(http://blog.musicbrainz.org/archives/2006/06/new_server_rele_1.html).
 Entered a bunch of tickets.

There was no "Hey, come test again" message.  No "We're planning on
releasing this next Sunday." message.  Just silence.

When I inferred last Sunday that a release was planned *that day*, I
took the time to go test, and found a bunch of stuff that I was
unhappy with.

As a suggestion for next time round:  Have "release candidates".  Say
"Hey, there's a new beta.  We've added these features: a.,b,c.  Come
test it again!".  Or 'Hey, this is now feature complete:  Come
nitpick."

Because people will come poke at the server for a few hours when told
to, post some bugs, then *never touch it again unless reminded*.
Happens with every beta I've ever seen.

Rod.

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