[Elecraft] K3 P3 SVGA - ?future firmware updates for K3/P3/SVGA?

[Sam Morgan]

understood and thank you for taking the time to reply Wayne.

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GB & 73
K5OAI
Sam Morgan

On 7/10/2014 7:55 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Our firmware task lists are sorted by priority. Determination of
> Priority is democratic to some degree (Squeaky Wheel and other
> industry standard methodologies). But in practice it involves
> crystal-ball-gazing, head-counting, arm-wrestling-over-a-beer, and a
> healthy dose of what-we-have-time-for.
>
> It is not practical for us to publish the lists. They change daily
> and contain a lot of firmware-speak. We'd rather spend time actually
> making changes than on sanitizing lists for public consumption.
>
> This is also the reason that we can't make announcements of the form
> "We will not ever get to feature X." (Imagine trying to do that with
> your personal Home Repair task list. Would your spouse let you
> unilaterally decide to remove some of them?) We'd rather be
> optimistic about it, since you never know when one of our overworked
> engineers is going to get some unexpected free time.
>
> The most useful guidance I can give you is this. If only one or two
> users are affected by a particular change, it is less likely to be
> implemented in the near future. If nearly all users are affected, it
> darn well better be fixed instantly. Everything else is in a sort of
> gray zone (see "Determination of Priority," above).
>
> I take responsibility for any muttered oaths against Elecraft
> pertaining to implementation delays. If it's any comfort: I read all
> the mail and lose sleep over things we can't get to. All I can say is
> that we try to make the best decisions we can, given engineering time
> available.
>
> 73, Wayne N6KR