On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> Would it be feasible to hire one or more full time developer to spend
> all their time ironing out the release critical bugs?
buggs are fixed daily ...
let the resumes flow in :-)
> How much would this developer need to get paid?
in silly con valley ... a good developer can pull down $150K/yr or more
and gazillion $$$$ in stock options
- you get what you pay for ... in terms of quality of coding,
productive work, qa, bug tracking, doc que ment a tion,
testing, etc
"release cycle" can be daily or weekly or monthly ...
- you can release a CD anytime you like
and that daily build already exists
- the "developers tasks" is probably just 10% of the overall
"release cycle" before it gets "blessed" to go out
- if you want a stable release ... where there are minimal buggs,
you already have that ( sarge )
- and making "more releases" does NOT mean better sw
( even silly ms takes 5 years to release a new OS vs
( patching their mistakes every 2-3 yrs w/ about 500
( developers and we wont even try to count their
( qa/documentaion/bug tracking/etc folks ..
- latest/greatest usually fixes known problems, but always creates
new ones
- pick the problems you want fixed and watch for those
apps and test those apps
<flame suit on>
c ya
alvin
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