From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7f625c89ba95ccc0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-27 09:56:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!propagator3-maxim!news-in.superfeed.net!logbridge.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat GPS to be released to the public? Date: 27 Mar 2003 12:56:05 -0500 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (skates.gsfc.nasa.gov) Message-ID: References: <4mXfa.210272$L1.38041@sccrnsc02> NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 1048788616 7739 128.183.235.92 (27 Mar 2003 18:10:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Mar 2003 18:10:16 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35763 Date: 2003-03-27T18:10:16+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" writes: > Stephen Leake wrote in message > news:ubrzy19cz.fsf@nasa.gov... > > > > ACT does not make public statements about future release schedules. > > Basically, they acknowledge that it is impossible to reliably answer > > the question "How long will it take you to find that bug?" :). > > > > But.... but.... but.... Isn't it written in Ada?!?!?! There shouldn't BE any > bugs if its written in Ada?!?!?! :-) :). > Realistically, if they wanted to release things on a schedule, they > could. Once you have a baseline product that basically works, GPS is not there yet. I don't use it daily, because it has too many bugs that get in the way. It also doesn't have enough features to compete with Emacs yet; that's a closely related issue. > you could aim for quarterly releases and you just get the snapshot > of whatever changes have been closed out to that point in time. You > pick your date of release and count backwards the time you need to > run some sort of regression tests, write up some documentation, > etc., then take a snapshot of your software at that point and > release it. I believe ACT decides on a feature set as the release trigger, rather than a date. But as I said earlier, I really don't know. > I suspect that the reasoning has more to do with marketing strategy and > monetary concerns than it does with bug fixes and stability. ACT's marketing strategy works for me: I send them money every year, instead of some other Ada company :). -- -- Stephe