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Friday, March 24, 2006

Headed into the weekend and....

What a week.

We have been getting serious about finishing up AOL Explorer 1.5 in the near future, and have been trying to stabilize the software.

This week was all about telling people no : )

It is amazing stuff needs to come together to ship software.  There are many groups at AOL that contribute to the effort (the QA Team, the Legal Team, the team that measures quality metrics), and many of these groups also support *all* AOL products (not just AOL Explorer).  So while our little team is wholly focused on AOL Explorer, these other groups have the responsibility to support a bunch of products (eg, AIM Triton, WAOL, AOL.com portal, etc).

This week I spent the week getting people focused on AOL Explorer, and telling them why they cannot "just slip one little thing" into the build. : )

The end-game of software is all about stabilization, which means you can only change stuff that really really (really) matters.  If you want to make your dates, you have to tell people to buzz off and come back later.

Anyway, it was a good week, and next week should be fun too.

Keep testing the latest build and let us know what you think.

-Rice



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  • #2 Comment from teambrowserEntry Author 
    3/28/06 8:56 AM | Permalink
    Hi brad7s: Hmmmn....I will go ask the Webmail guys if they can give us an URL for the Beta Webmail Panel.  I am confident that once the new Webmail goes live all users of AOL Explorer Webmail Panels will automatically be updated....but will get back to you to see if there is an URL.
    -Rice
  • #1 Comment from brad7s 
    3/27/06 4:33 PM | Permalink
    I just downloaded the 1.5 RC from the beta site and I keep looking for the mail panel to point to the beta webmail.  Is that a possibility or something I can do on my own.  I like the quick reference panel, but when I open it up, I'd really like it to point to the beta webmail.

    I'm sure it will point there once the beta webmail goes live, but until then, wasn't sure if that was an easy fix.

    Thanks!