At 01:20 AM 08-08-00 -0500, you wrote:

>In effect I wish to know whats holding us back? Whats missing that can't
>be replaced by a few thousand extra monkeys like me pressing the
>unexpected buttons on the keyboard? Am I missing the point of the test
>suite all together?
>
>Randal

Nothing is holding us back. People have been hard at the builds for more
than a week now (although I heard a rumour that Mark O'Donohue actually
went to bed on Sunday night).

Yes, you're missing the point of the test suite - it took something like 40
man-years to create and obviously has an enormous amount of dependency
covered, given the broad range of platforms.

At least Ted Shelton was talking (last week) of ways to make it available,
so don't be in total despair that Inprise are going to keep it unto
themselves. Have hope that the good health of InterBase development will
prevail over parochial interests. Another way to look at it, of course, is
that 40 man-years is a year's work for 400 people or 6 weeks for 400. Will
our 6.0.1 builds be ready for QA in 6 weeks?

Ted Shelton seems to have gone underground this week but "our Ann" is back
from vacation today and all-fired-up.

Helen


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