Hi Seehund!
Yes my t-i-c attempt to lighten the atmos probably would light
it in that way ;-) Note I never said who the trollfest would
come from :-D
I'd love for Hyperion to produce detailed status reports but
the last time I saw a detailed "roadmap" and cared a toss
about it was the PhaseV one.
I am resigned to it will be done when it's done, the detailed
questions I don't think will get useful answers and nor do I
see them as being make or break issues.
But, if you do get detailed, useful answers I will read them with
interest but I wouldn't curse Hyperion if you don't get them.
In fact I wouldn't mind JoannaKs questions at all if they weren't
always ( at least in my memory which I admit can be
faulty here ) full of dubious assertions about product development.
Ive been in large scale product development for ooooh 10 years
6 months ago and I've never seen any project that didn't slip
or any adaption of so called hard and fast rules ( like what the
hardest bit of development is going to be ).
Complete design rewrites have rarely occurred ( once only in
the entire time I have been professionally employed ) and
on a product like AOS4 with a pre-existing codebase and
well known and documented "semantics" even less.
In fact if you consider that a 68k version of AOS4 used for integration
testing of function being a "simulator" and it works then the
semantics are agreed.
Questions can also be placed to create "unanswered questions"
and as a tool to spread fear and uncertainty....
Suffice to say we don't know the internal state and the internal
assumptions the project is based on, therefore no one is in
a state to judge.
