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(03-16-2024 07:47 PM)Guenter Schink Wrote:  Inconsistencies is a dominating characteristic of the PRIME. It's such a pity, as Tim and Cyrille were obviously very capable developers. But you can't be successful once your management doesn't provide the necessary resources.

Regarding the inconsistency - I completely agree. For the time when Prime was in the hands of HP, many mechanisms were implemented without being tested. Even completely flawed, non-working features were described in release notes (as new features), but simply didn't function. Publishing non-working mechanisms has a hugely negative impact and introduced more harm than good in Prime.
As for the programmers you mentioned, I have my own observations on that matter. Being a proficient programmer is one thing, but just writing code is not everything; you also also need to be capable of designing and even anticipating to some extent, and in this aspect, it didn't look very good (for example, the parameters we have in the instruction and the order in which they appear, as well as their consistency with other similar functions, are the domain of programmers in this case). Of course, the management is responsible to some extent for all the issues that occur with Prime, but in my opinion, the programmers (analyzing their statements and reactions) had a free hand in what they published, and no one controlled it, which means that besides programming, they also decided what happened in the project and bear at least partial responsibility for the lack of quality in what they published. There are specific examples of a complete lack of testing (which is unacceptable), so it looks like they went for quantity of changes but completely forgot about quality.
Of course, the vast majority of their work consists of very well-functioning solutions and this should be appreciated.

(03-16-2024 07:47 PM)Guenter Schink Wrote:  An indication of the problems may be that we haven't heard anything from Moravia for quite a while. Perhaps they realize that's a mission impossible to rectify the problems with their intended man power.

Indeed, the lack of information from Moravia is a significant problem, but I hope that will change. Certainly, the Product Manager should definitely visit the forum more frequently and provide some general information. It's good that there's Jeff, and he at least occasionally shares some information about the bugs that have been fixed.
On the other hand, from what I observe today, Moravia's current strategy is primarily focused on fixing bugs. And that's a very reasonable decision because you can't build anything good on a weak, unstable foundation. Once stability is improved and quality is raised, then it will be time for development. Unfortunately, identifying all the bugs from previous years is a huge task, and there are many, mainly in the PPL area but also in the user interface. Many of them have already been identified, and quite a few have even been fixed, but there is still a lot of work to be done. That's what Moravia is doing - fixing what was once neglected. The budget is probably limited, so everything is progressing very slowly, but it is moving forward.