Updating The Financial Edge

Daniel Dalnekoff — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:05:00 GMT

Updating The Financial Edge seems to be something that everyone has a different feeling on, so I wanted to put some thoughts out on the table....

Obviously, our goal here in support is to be responsive and get client issues resolved as quickly as possible. If the way to deliver a fix is through a patch I feel like we should try to make these patches available frequently. On the other hand, it can be time-consuming to be frequently updating the software to always be on the latest version. Would making update patches available less frequently make it easier because there are fewer updates to install, or would it be burdensome because a patch that addresses an issue may not be coming out as frequently. Then we have the patch readme, there is a link to this right from the downloads page that provides a list of what issues have been addressed in a patch, and just below this is a list of outstanding issues that we are working on.

I thought about my process for my home PC updates and how this could translate to updating FE. I am one of those users who has automatic updates set so I only receive the notification that an update is available, and I can choose to install this or not. Now, being the curious type I always take a look at what updates are available to see if there is something I am really interested in downloading. If I see something critical, or that affects something I might be working on I always go ahead and install. If I am currently working on something big and I don’t want to take the time to let the updates install though, I will push this off until a better time.

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Updating The Financial Edge