Bryan, On Thursday 01 June 2006 19:40, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:29 -0500, Mark H. Harris wrote:
I agree... but I have to say that Novell/SuSE is learning a valuable lesson here. Never let pointy head managers push your product out the door before its ready... bad plan... bad manager, bad.
I disagree. At some point, you've gotta just push something out-the-door. SuSE made some changes in a few key details in 10.1 -- not expected in a revision of the same major version -- and they've been hit by the integration issues. It happens. It's unavoidable.
That is loser talk, plain and simple. If you believe it, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you do software development right, you might not get the schedules some higher-up would like, but you can meet the schedules you commit to with reasonable or even excellent quality. Being this ready to capitulate and--to commit the cardinal sin--push something out the door because of a calendar date even if it's not ready is what makes consumers of computing technology rightfully develop such a bad opinion of the software industry. I've been doing software development as my sole occupation for over 25 years and I've seen it done all sorts of ways, but when the calendar, driven by arbitrary managerial fiat, is what calls the shots, quality suffers. When the managers listen to the engineers, the commitment that are made are met and the quality is sufficient to satisfy all concerned. Randall Schulz -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com