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Subject:Re: Release notes and readme files From:Steven Jong <SteveFJong -at- comcast -dot- net> To:TECHWR-L Digest <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:38:32 -0400
"According to most of the development people I've worked with, there
is no such thing as a bug. It's just an undocumented feature."
Sure. And there's no such thing as a typo. It's just an alternate
spelling 8^)
Regarding an in-your-face list of bugs in release notes, at a certain
large computer vendor I once worked for, a colleague was kept under
the gun grinding out the release notes for an operating-system
release. He did manage to finish the document, but when the
engineering vice president saw over 100 PAGES of restrictions
(unfixed bugs), he canceled the release.
-- Steve
Steven Jong (Subveni, Domine! Habemus aliam felem!)
SteveFJong -at- comcast -dot- net
978-413-2553 [C]
Home sweet home page: home.comcast.net/~stevefjong
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