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Putty is a great case to look at next time you hear someone trumpet the benefits of how fast or often their code is deployed to users. Everyone knows the water
by cbs 15y ago
Putty is a great case to look at next time you hear someone trumpet the benefits of how fast or often their code is deployed to users.
Everyone knows the waterfall model is a bad idea, what I wonder is how fast of iteration is too fast? What does the tacit assumptions of multiple releases a day being a good thing say about a product? Does the browser thin-client target enable development process anti-patterns?
- beaumartinez 15y agoFast iteration has nothing to do with adding superfluous features. PuTTY was done—there was nothing more to add (or rather, remove), so development was stopped (or rather, paused).
- cbs 15y agoI didn't say anything about superfluous features. Done in the software world doesn't really mean "done", just that its not being working on. Putty wasn't done, there was a list of bugs sitting there waiting to be addressed. But thats not my point, even at its peak of development, putty never had more than 4 releases within a year.