BeerTools Pro Software (Public Beta)
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BeerTools Pro Software (Public Beta)
so where is it?
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hear, hear; i second that question.
and further, why is the beta only available to gold members? as a programmer, i'm more than happy to work the bugs out in someone else's program, for the privelledge of using the program. but it strikes me as odd that the beta testing of beertools pro is exclusively for gold members.
what i usually see with beta software, speaking closed source of course, is an expiry built in to the program. under mac os x, it's very easy to make watertight expiries. the whole idea behind beta testing is so that by the time you're ready for a stable final release, your software will be as slick as possible and leave a lasting good impression.
just my 2 cents though.
regards,
adam poole
developer and wwdc2005 attendee
and further, why is the beta only available to gold members? as a programmer, i'm more than happy to work the bugs out in someone else's program, for the privelledge of using the program. but it strikes me as odd that the beta testing of beertools pro is exclusively for gold members.
what i usually see with beta software, speaking closed source of course, is an expiry built in to the program. under mac os x, it's very easy to make watertight expiries. the whole idea behind beta testing is so that by the time you're ready for a stable final release, your software will be as slick as possible and leave a lasting good impression.
just my 2 cents though.
regards,
adam poole
developer and wwdc2005 attendee
Limited?
May I ask where you saw it stated that the BeerTools Pro Beta is limited to GOLD members?wombatau wrote:hear, hear; i second that question.
and further, why is the beta only available to gold members? as a programmer, i'm more than happy to work the bugs out in someone else's program, for the privelledge of using the program. but it strikes me as odd that the beta testing of beertools pro is exclusively for gold members.
what i usually see with beta software, speaking closed source of course, is an expiry built in to the program. under mac os x, it's very easy to make watertight expiries. the whole idea behind beta testing is so that by the time you're ready for a stable final release, your software will be as slick as possible and leave a lasting good impression.
just my 2 cents though.
regards,
adam poole
developer and wwdc2005 attendee
Jeff
BeerTools.com Staff
BeerTools.com Staff
funny, the post seems to be deleted. but if you do the following search with google:
"we take care of our GOLD members" site:beertools.com
you will find the following (in google's cache):
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:_ph ... ent=safari
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:IRV ... ent=safari
lathe made the post on wed feb 8, 2006 at 9:13am. it doesn't seem to appear in his profile here though for some reason.
-adam
"we take care of our GOLD members" site:beertools.com
you will find the following (in google's cache):
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:_ph ... ent=safari
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:IRV ... ent=safari
lathe made the post on wed feb 8, 2006 at 9:13am. it doesn't seem to appear in his profile here though for some reason.
-adam
The post the link points to is a response to a GOLD member asking if he will receive a discount on the official release of BeerTools Pro. The beta program contains both GOLD members and trial members and the private BeerTools Pro forum is used to communicate with other members of the beta program team. Google indexed the forum before the program began and before the forum was made private. Hope this clears things up, thanks for the links!wombatau wrote:funny, the post seems to be deleted. but if you do the following search with google:
"we take care of our GOLD members" site:beertools.com
you will find the following (in google's cache):
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:_ph ... ent=safari
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:IRV ... ent=safari
lathe made the post on wed feb 8, 2006 at 9:13am. it doesn't seem to appear in his profile here though for some reason.
-adam
Jeff
BeerTools.com Staff
BeerTools.com Staff
i read it when it was written in feb. i seemed to remember someone asked where the beta was and who it was going to be released to and lathe replied with something a little vague along the lines of "we take care of our gold members".
also, i remember being confronted with the "you must be a gold member to do this" thing when i tried to sign up for the beta testing. might have been my error, but did anyone else have a similar problem?
anyone here doing the beta testing that isn't a gold member?
-adam
also, i remember being confronted with the "you must be a gold member to do this" thing when i tried to sign up for the beta testing. might have been my error, but did anyone else have a similar problem?
anyone here doing the beta testing that isn't a gold member?
-adam
ME
Im not a gold member. and I'm in the bata groop. and I would have too guess from the posts in the bata fourm that most of the active people are not gold members!!
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Not a gold member when
I wasn't a Gold member when I signed up for the Beta. I am now but not when I joined the Beta. I, too, am a programmer and although I can't put the time to the Beta like I would like to it is fun to contribute when I can and watch the progress of the software.
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