6.5 Beta and some preliminary thoughts
Tags :Rant
I am lucky enough to be on the managed
beta for 6.5 now to get more
frequent builds and a better monitored feedback forum in the form of bug
reports instead of general voluntary discussion feedback. I am learning
Lotus is going full steam with this beta since there are new feature releases
since the 6.0x releases instead of just waiting and rolling it out the
door when it was ready.
The naming
convention of Milestone adds a new project management feel to the release.
Instead of pre-release, using the term milestone sets the mind as
they are reaching deadlines and goals for enhancements and features showing
up in the build itself. They set some preliminary dates for Milestone
2 in the call today. I don't think they are being overly aggressive
or overly relaxed. The time line sounds just right at this point
even though many are clambering for the OpenNTF
look and feel but do not want to commit to a non-supported template. Even
though some will go and modify the template themselves. Makes sense
doesn't it?
Now they are
changing the template for iNotes in this release as some of you know. It
was previously iNotes60.ntf and it goes back to iNotes6.ntf in this version.
Now this gets confusing if you have old templates from the pre-release
days. I would suggest cleaning up those old templates instead of
just updating and continually installing so you don't grab the wrong one
or leave one out there. Removes the possibility of error in applying
the wrong template.
As a side note,
was no one going to tell me that my location I post from was not showing???
I fixed it today after upgrading to 2.10e of the DominoBlog
template that Steve rolled out this week to fix RSS Feeds and other things.
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On Tuesday, May 6th, 2003 by Chris Miller
