My Autopano Pro forum

There used to be a company that advertised on TV that "We will sell no wine before its time".
It's also a good policy to release no software before its time.

A lot of people are not software developers, and don't know the difference between alpha, beta and production (or release) code.

I've always used:

Unit test -- test of each feature by the developer
System test -- test of the overall system by all the developers
QA test -- test by a different set of engineers than the developers, but still in-house.

Alpha test -- first test of code on a live system, generally in-house but sometimes at a very friendly customer. 

Beta test -- live test at selected customers.  Generally, customers have to recognize that code may have bugs and may not function at all before they receive it.

First release (x.0)  sometimes buggy

So I applaud Alexandre for trying to get all known bugs out of APP before release, but I suggest that the alpha could be a limited release to two or three friendly guys who have fisheye lenses even though there are some know bugs.  (unfortunately, I don't have a fisheye lens yet )    This will get the easy-to-find bugs out before the beta, which may be a more general release.

I think Alexandre has ask people who have fisheye to send him pictures. I have a 8mm Peleng and last week, Alexandre has confirmed that Autopano1.4 is compliant with this fisheye..

Yves

We all wait

Yes, we are a patient lot, outdoor photographers that is... We wait for perfect light, we can wait a bit longer for 4.1.

Aller, encore 5 jours de patience... n'est ce pas ?

Bon courage à toute l'équipe et vivement ce WE tant attendu !

Arnaud.

Tu sais Alexandre que nous t'aimons tous beaucoup! Que tu es quelqu'un d'extraordinaire! Non, c'est vrai, un être sensible et attentionné!

Pour les quelques centaines de milliers de membres qui trépignent et qui n'ont malheureusement pas pu se déplacer pour ce week-end, tu peux pas nous mettre la version 1.4 en ligne pour la fin de semaine!  Sinon, on va faire des caprices...
Et cela nous ferait un peu de bonheur dans ce monde de brutes.
En échange, je vous promets un très beau temps.
Ca marche?

C'est vrai que ca serait plus sympa de l'avoir vendredi

J'imagine qu'Alexandre ne serait pas très tranquille s'il n'etait pas sur place pendant que les utilisateurs télécharge la nouvelle version comme si c'était le fruit de la dernière vendange d'Apremont...

Depuis le temps que l'on attend, il faut espérer que cette version soit plus proche d'un Corton Charlemagne que d'un Apremont...

Well, I suppose that's enough for now. You've got the release date straight from Alexandre, so let's close this topic.