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Re: (ASCEND) Death of the Incremental releases?

On Tue, 2 Dec 1997 09:22:39 -0600, Brett Hawn wrote:

>I don't expect 6.0 to be the answer to life and the universe myself, but I
>do expect that if 6.0 (which outta be relatively soon) isn't stable, doesn't
>fix a butload of bugs, etc, I'll be more than happy to reccomend that we get
>rid of our ascends entirely. This half-assed code release project with more
>bugs in every release, no quality control, lack of _USEFULL_ snmp support,
>etc is just too tiring. Its a sad sad day when I look at the USR TC racks
>sitting next to the Ascends and think to myself 'ya know.. I actually prefer
>these damn things to the Ascends. At least they work'.
>
>The basic concept here Ascend in case you haven't yet quite figured it out,
>is this:
>
>Pull your software engineer's heads out of their asses, show them where the
>bugs are, tell them to fix those bugs. No more pretty little features, no
>more this and no more that. Stop trying to please every Tom, Dick, and Harry
>who wants his max to beep Jingle Bells when it reboots and just F*&^%ING FIX
>IT.

Well I do hope some nagging probs are fixed, but there are a few
things new which we do need (maybe not you guys in the US) in other
parts of the world.... 

just for start... differentiation for k56 callers over 33.6 (or
lower) callers. This is quite major for some of us.

finger is another one... yes I know, what would you use it for ??
think about it, a quick way to determine if a user is already logged
onto another machine in the stack or remote pop ? Damn easy way I
reckon. maybe this could be achieved another way easier but with out
patching code ??

Brings me to another point... whats happenned to the incrementals
(mmm, I should check before I hit the send...but to to late/early... 
:(




>On Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 10:15:37AM -0500, Jason Nealis made some electrons appear in the following form:
>> 
>>  6.0 has got to be Ascends Golden Answer to all, Stability has got
>> to be in that release, Myself even my operators will run 6.0 I might
>> even toss it in my VCR to see how it runs :) But honestly, For me
>> all the SNMP stuff that is of any use will come to life in 6.0 and
>> other minor items also are slated to be fixed in 6.0. 
>> 
>>  Jason
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Marc Newman wrote:
>> 
>> > We have been seeing a Patch release every month or so, but I haven't seen a new
>> > Incremental release in ages.  I HOPE this means that they are hard at work on
>> > a 6.0 gold release, with new features, and all the bug fixes that are in 5.0Ap36.
>> > 
>> > Marc
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