Logos Bible Software 4.6 Beta 1 (4.60.0.2634) YIKES!
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Space bar not working to move page? Anybody else seem to have this issue? (MacBook Retina w/Mountain Lion)
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alabama24 said:
David - I can appreciate your frustration. Having gone through many beta cycles now, I have come to realize that it is best not to remain on beta channel once the release goes live, especially when you don't have multiple machines and depend upon the one. By changing your channel to stable, you should not be surprised by an unusable beta. Once the beta has been put through the ringer a little, you can switch back over.
The problem isn't that people who use the beta a lot don't realize that its beta and will have problems.
The problem is that this particular bug was released into a public beta. Why would Logos release a public beta with such a fundamentally and universally used feature reressing? If I were the guy in charge of when the beta gets pushed out, I'd let some bugs out, but not something this big. I'd say, woops! This Alpha is not ready to go to public beta till we fix this major feature that worked fine in the previous beta.
That they didn't stop that release leads me to believe that one of two things may be true.
1. They don't really care that much when regressions slip into the beta. We'll fix it in the next cycle.
2. They don't use the software for regular sermon or Bible study prep and therefore didn't actually use the Passage Guide during this round of testing.
Either way its disconcerting and makes me wonder if Logos will continue to regress in quality as it as been over the last couple of years. The features get more interesting but the quality of the software slips, at least on the Mac side.
Dr. Kevin Purcell, Director of Missions
Brushy Mountain Baptist Association0 -
Kevin A. Purcell said:
If I were the guy in charge of when the beta gets pushed out, I'd let some bugs out, but not something this big
Seems they want to push the Mac beta out along with the Windows beta whether it will work or not.
Apparently no one on the dev team actually uses L4 Mac.
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Jack Caviness said:
Apparently no one on the dev team actually uses L4 Mac.
How glaring bugs and regressions creep out through the various stages of development has been a mystery to me. There is a news story from last week of a young boy who boarded a plane in Manchester bound for Italy that was not discovered until the flight was in route. He ran away from home, went through various levels of security with no passport and got on the plane without a ticket. Everyone is stunned how he got that far and in the end, it was passengers on the flight that picked up that something was not quite right. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/25/11-year-old-flies-rome-manchester?newsfeed=true
I sometimes wonder the same thing about some of these bugs and regressions. How can you genuinely use the product and not notice some of this stuff before the go button gets pressed? My theory is that the development team must be maxed out with work loads.
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