Campaign Theatre

[Joe]

Originally Posted by Toblakai

They had this policy and they get just as much crap from people. No win situation.

This exactly. Either way we upset about half of everyone, so we often err on the side of being transparent with our current estimates. But as this is software development, current estimates can often be wrong (sometimes very, very wrong).

Originally Posted by talsharien

Perhaps in the future, you should avoid offering any kind of timeline rather than offering false hope.......

FWIW you'll notice I was very careful to issue a lot of caveats in my updated timeline reply. We haven't always been very good about that, but that's something I'm personally trying to change.

Also, after revising the timeline, internally we have a new specific date we're trying to hit. We discussed making that date public, but decided against it for exactly the reason you stated. So we are listening to both camps here and trying to walk the line between them as best we can.