[sldev] Just askin': How are we doing?

[Joshua Bell]

Nicholaz Beresford wrote:
> The other (big) thing, and I think the comments on the blog for
> the 1.17.1 and 1.18 release announcements support that, would be to
> make the 3rd quarter the quarter of "bug fixing".  
Oh darn, sounds like I do have to go read those comments. *sigh*

Seriously though - feedback on how we're doing on bugs would be 
appreciated. The signal:noise ratio on most of our feedback mechanisms 
is extremely low. Every time I post to the blog saying "we're releasing 
1.X which has 40 bug fixes" and the comments are "why aren't you fixing 
bugs?". Or my favorite: "Why was a Linden on the beta grid testing 
things when he should be fixing bugs?"

The developer community here on SLDEV has a better insight into the cost 
and risk associated with bug fixes than many non-developers, and can 
understand when e.g. we announce "message template liberation" that 
decoupling viewer updates from server updates is a Good Thing even if it 
doesn't fix a pet bug.

So please call us on egregious outstanding bugs that may be lost in the 
noise, and our fix rate.