does linden labs know about software QA?

ok...i have to ask cuz i happen to know a lil bit about it. what's the driving force behind sl? the new and cool that doesn't work or the stability of what does? my background is in software QA for the financial services industry, so when us IT guys screwed up...people lost money (at best)...oh wait...when LL screws up, people lose money...hmmm

i'm sure they have some of the best and the brightest at the wheels when it comes to developing everything that makes sl "cool"...but i wonder...could any of these guys have survived if they were even partly responsible for bringing a major financial services' company's systems to it's knees for the better part of a day?

yeah...cool is nice...when it works...

When your firm has never made a profit, there really isn't much to lose from lack of QA - except maybe the potential of future profit.

Quite why this rather serious error didn't show up is an example of the black art nature of software development. Something like this SHOULD have shown up on the preview grid's - it didn't but when real world data and larger grid was thrown at the code it broke. Nothing you can do about it, it happens and not a QA issue, just unfortunate and nigh on impossible to cater for. Software can be a fickle beast and just because it works with one set of data, doesn't mean it's not going to break with another.

the fact that things are so unstable after every release speaks to poor scm and release management...the code may be good but the deployment process is definitely suspect...

Seems to me they just want to put "cool" stuff in each update regardless of whether or not it works. Just so long as its 'cutting edge', if everyone crashes constantly because it doesnt work, too bad, cause they're already working on next weeks 'cool stuff', ad infinitum.

The only benefit? i've seen out of an update are those people that make comments in the forums about how they have no problems because their system is so uber etc. etc. and why are you peasants that can't afford top-of-the-line pc's even here anyhow and so forth.