[DUG] Delphi 2006 snippet

[Richard Vowles]

Hi Robert,

But you don't have a single person whose sole job it is to fix problems
- the Delphi team fix bugs as well as design new features, just like a
normal team. I think this is the first time they have allocated someone
specifically to fixing bugs _only_ - it being such a feature rich
product that people discover all sorts of stuff, the person is being
allocated from the start to deal with issues.

InterBase has had a 7.0, 7.1 and 7.5 release, the release versions
indicate new functionality rather than bug fixes.  There haven't been a
.2, .3 or .4 release of InterBase. And sure, IB has a few problems but
most of them have been pretty obscure or unusual. We have one customer
doing 7 million transactions per day on InterBase (yes, in NZ) and their
only problem is that IB (and firebird as well has this problem as I
understand) has a total final transaction limit based on signed-32 bits.
Once they get to 2 billion transactions, they're toast, the number
doesn't wrap. IMHO, the firebird team have stagnated - sitting down and
re-writing the entire engine again in C++ and then forking it 4 times,
well... I'm Borland I suppose I should be biased :-)

Richard
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-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of Robert martin
Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2005 3:58 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi 2006 snippet

Hi Richard

Interesting point.  After talking with the guys here we think we
actually spend more time on product refinement (bug fixes, usability and
performance) than new features !

While new features tend to get you new clients, they don't keep your
existing client base happy!

It's an interesting balance that needs to be maintained.  I am glad to
see Borland re focus on product quality, In the Firebird / Interbase
arena I note the Firebird people point to them providing a stable
product over the new features in Interbase 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
!

I am sure this will work well for Borland. 


I only asked about the # of developers to ascertain the ratio of bugs to
features.  There probably isn't much point to having 1 bug fixer and 200
'new feature' developers!


Rob Martin
Software Engineer

phone +64 03 377 0495
fax   +64 03 377 0496
web www.chreos.com

Wild Software Ltd



Richard Vowles wrote:

>Two questions, so:
>1) One person specifically allocated to doing nothing but blatting
bugs.
>That is pretty strange for a development team (think about yours!), his

>sole goal is to make sure the bugs are fixed.
>
>2) Dunno. 
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>On Behalf Of Robert martin
>Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2005 3:21 p.m.
>To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
>Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi 2006 snippet
>
>Are you referring to the guy fixing the bugs??? :)
>
>Out of interest, how many members in the development team?
>
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