So some seem to imply they have better skills, who is going to give their time to help USAT?
Or, is it just bitching?
Dave
I gave up on volunteering when I realized that the people in charge are often more interested in being in charge and protecting their territory rather than actually getting things done. Don’t know if that applies to USAT, I’m just sayin’.
Man can I totally relate to your experience. But, if I look at the folks that help and do not , one
trend tends to stick out. If one is a Type A person, your comments apply. If one is a Type B,
they do not worry about being in control. So, I know that I have to answer this for myself before
I volunteer helping. Since I am volunteering, my opinions should be kept to myself.
Dave
Since I am volunteering, my opinions should be kept to myself.
I want to remind you that you posting here is a voluntary thing.
In fairness, Ken, it’s called resources…not every entity has the wherewithal to stand up nonprod testing environments. Some claim to have one…but then you inspect it and find out the equipment is all different and the configuration is out of whack with the production side.
Neither you or I know what their resources are…we ought not take such a holier-than-thou attitude about their shortfalls.
In fairness, Ken, it’s called resources…not every entity has the wherewithal to stand up nonprod testing environments. Some claim to have one…but then you inspect it and find out the equipment is all different and the configuration is out of whack with the production side.
Neither you or I know what their resources are…we ought not take such a holier-than-thou attitude about their shortfalls.
I didn’t say they had or used a dedicated testing environment. They could have hosted their new software on the production system, changed a directory name and an entry on the web server, and run through the links. It would have been apparent rather early on that something was miscoded or misconfigured.
Furthermore, whenever a new system goes live, someone should actually test the thing out after it goes live! Clearly, they either didn’t do that or did, discovered their error, had no rollback plan and decided to just let the fatal flaw exist.
Or, now that it is fixed, they finally figured out how to fix it. Good for them.