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Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil
If you remember last year I started a very controversial thread on the FIRST scoring software. There was an error in it which caused an eligeble team to be displayed inelligeble on the big screen. FIRST volunteers scrambled to fix it as fast as they could. In the end it was determined that it was a bug not discovered during beta testing. The thread concludes with myself offering to help beta test this years software.
What do you think about FIRST releasing the scoring programs on Sourceforge or something for all to look at and analyze? If we take the open source model, (ala Liunux) and apply it to the scoring programs we could have many more programmers help the volunteers at FIRST.
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This i personally think would not help the problem, yet make it worse. I am a scorekeeper this year at 2 regionals and am looking forward to it. Normally it seems the software will have bugs when different states occur. I dont think with all the testing, all the states could be thought of and used throughout testing. Sometimes you just have to let bugs be worked out as they happen and be fixed on the fly. Also i think that if you had a ton of people trying to help out the scorekeeper(s) at an event, it would be hell and make a huge time delay in the event. IMHO i would not like to see the program be released to the general public, though if you contact first via the volunteer system and explain your situation, it would be appriciated by many though.