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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 5338673" data-attributes="member: 28487">Updating the easy stuff may not be an option it all depends on weither the update delay is a data entry one or an application developement one.If it is application development then a lot depends on how their development process works.In my opinion an outfit lit Wizards that are doing regualr scheduled releases should be using an agile development process. That is all application methods should have test code written (ideally before the production code is written) and continous application integration and build. With the test automatically run after each build. If that is the case then they could release the last stable build that has completed features and whatever content that exposes.Now the problem with that approach often is that senior management does not buy into that approach. The lines of test code written usually matches or exceeds the lines of production code and is seen as wasteful efford by many managements, despite all the studies to the contrary and that is in dedicated software development outfits. So Wizards management with no real development experience could be even harder to convince.So if that is the case then they are now caught with unstable codebase and no way to just include completed features as the last known stable build was the August release.Of course it could be much worse than that, in that some design choices made 2 years ago to get the CB out the door after the debacle of Glessmax et al is now biting them in the ass and now they need to rebuild something core (like say the database) in order to accomadate Essentials or the Dark Sun themes or what ever.</blockquote>

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