On Feb 29, 2016, at 12:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Back in September I predicted that LC 8 might reach RC1 in March. I've read > no specific time estimates from the team, but given the good progress on a > wide range of areas I'd guess that RC1 would likely occur no later than > April, and would feel reasonably comfortable* guessing that a July estimate > for Stable would seem achievable. > > > * Any projection of ship dates from any one about any software is, > ultimately, a form of guesswork. We have 50 years of ACM literature to back > that up, and insightful authors from Fred Brooks to Steven McConnell to > explain why this unpredictability persists. Until when a system ships can we > know the ship date. Prior to that the inevitable unpredictable things that > define our universe and the software development tasks we do within it will > come into play. I always try to keep this in mind with all software from all > vendors.
Two principles that apply universally to predicting a stable software release date: The first 90% of the task takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time. Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
