Re: Olympia - test vs. production version

From: hauck@cs.washington.edu (Scott Hauck)

Date: Mon, 18 May 1992 05:28:09 +0000

Well, I thought I'd offer my 2 cents on the voting going on between
one and two versions.  First off, I voted AGAINST.  There are a couple reasons:

1.) Olympia is a service done out of the goodness of Skrenta's heart.  I think
two systems is an extra burdon on him that isn't necessary

2.) Part of the fun of Olympia is potificating on how things should ad
shouldn't be.  If things migrated from experimental to production, by the
time we saw it it would be set in stone, and we'd have a lot less input

3.) It's not clear this would eliminate the bugs and disappearing skills - at
some time experimental changes will have to be merged into the production
system, and we'll have the same problems.  Whatever testing Skrenta will do
on the experimental version, I bet he's doing now on the production version
right after a change.

4.) You can always blame your failures on bugs, and your victory on skill ;^!

I think the one things that SHOULD be done is give us a bit more warning on
changes.  This could be done by publishing the mythical "TO DO" list, and
would also prompt some before the fact discussion, instead of bitching about
what was done (ie. who likes the new skill system?  I'm not impressed so far,
but I'll reserve judgement for a turn or two).

Comments?

Scott Hauck
hauck@cs.washington.edu

References

Olympia - test vs. production version
mckinney@cs.utexas.edu (Durwood Y. McKinney)
Mon, 18 May 1992 04:27:36 +0000

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Olympia - test vs. production version
mckinney@cs.utexas.edu (Durwood Y. McKinney)
Mon, 18 May 1992 04:27:36 +0000