Dec 28th, 2009, 11:08 AM
Hey Tom,
No worries! It's Beta, but it's solid.
Perception of the term "beta" has rather shifted in the last few years to reflect "agile" software development techniques. Many new scripts like FT2 are now developed to be "released early, released often" meaning that they're in a perpetual state of development and that patching problems and releasing updates are easy and quick to do.
So the term may give the impression of unreadiness, but it's really not the case. If anything, software labeled non-beta can give a false sense of completion...
Anyway, that's probably a long discussion.
- Ben
No worries! It's Beta, but it's solid.
Perception of the term "beta" has rather shifted in the last few years to reflect "agile" software development techniques. Many new scripts like FT2 are now developed to be "released early, released often" meaning that they're in a perpetual state of development and that patching problems and releasing updates are easy and quick to do.
So the term may give the impression of unreadiness, but it's really not the case. If anything, software labeled non-beta can give a false sense of completion...
Anyway, that's probably a long discussion.
- Ben