Perceptions of the OS X Beta Seed Program
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Graham Perrin
Apr 30, 2014, 5:03:33 PM4/30/14
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OS X Beta Seed Program
I'm curious, how do people feel about about this new program?
(Note, this is not an invitation to discuss the software itself – if you're enrolled, please respect the OS X Beta Seed and Confidentiality Agreement.)
There'll be plenty of commentary elsewhere (under the article below, for example) but I'll be interested in the thoughts of this group.
Thanks
Sam - MacAmbulance
Apr 30, 2014, 5:12:43 PM4/30/14
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I already feel like i’m a public beta tester for Apple’s software, 10.9.2 brought so many bugs into OS X Server that it’s less stable than a pre-release version.
Sam
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Jason Davies
May 1, 2014, 7:13:41 AM5/1/14
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My thoughts were that either they are finding their stable beta pool
shrinking/insufficient to catch bugs but also possibly that they are
getting more/a steady flow of good bug reports from the rest of the
community (non-developers). Rather than create exceptions for
non-developers to add things (it's messy having a system that has
exceptions) they opened it up to anyone who can be bothered to do it -
thus retaining the good bug reporters.
I was asked years ago to be a beta tester for a well-known (ish) bit of
software just because I kept reporting them. I even got an honorary
mention atthe upgrade to OS X because I reported so many. I suspect I
was the only person with a cheap iBook with a small screen (high-powered
developers etc would only have decent kit) so I found loads of bugs
about the UI being crammed into a small space.
so maybe that kind of thing. especially (I'm speculating) Maps. It's
possible they get a ton of information from people outraged about errors
in that.
On 30 Apr 2014, at 22:03, Graham Perrin wrote:
> OS X Beta Seed Program <https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/>
shrinking/insufficient to catch bugs but also possibly that they are
getting more/a steady flow of good bug reports from the rest of the
community (non-developers). Rather than create exceptions for
non-developers to add things (it's messy having a system that has
exceptions) they opened it up to anyone who can be bothered to do it -
thus retaining the good bug reporters.
I was asked years ago to be a beta tester for a well-known (ish) bit of
software just because I kept reporting them. I even got an honorary
mention atthe upgrade to OS X because I reported so many. I suspect I
was the only person with a cheap iBook with a small screen (high-powered
developers etc would only have decent kit) so I found loads of bugs
about the UI being crammed into a small space.
so maybe that kind of thing. especially (I'm speculating) Maps. It's
possible they get a ton of information from people outraged about errors
in that.
On 30 Apr 2014, at 22:03, Graham Perrin wrote:
> OS X Beta Seed Program <https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/>
Graham Perrin
Jul 20, 2015, 2:53:36 PM7/20/15
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Since Apple decided to publish Apple Developer Forums discussions of pre-release software, I decided to go public about my years with the AppleSeed programme (not to be confused with the Apple Beta Software Program).
My updated profile at Stack Exchange includes a few links, most of which are off-topic from the two programmes, but tomorrow will be the anniversary of my departure from AppleSeed …
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