At this point we’ve already made most of the progress we wanted on the performance and testing framework and the remaining work to be done is roughly on par with the “fix the easier to fix issues”, and hashing out the remainder here feels less valuable than just doing the work. I do think a case could be made that the easier stuff was worth doing first, but we made the decision to switch when it seemed like we’d make more rapid progress on the “easier” stuff after we’d fixed some underlying issues.
I do probably agree with the implied “public beta should have waited another month or something” (though with a caveat that many of the problems didn’t become apparent until the site was actually under a real load)
Gotcha.
At this point we’ve already made most of the progress we wanted on the performance and testing framework and the remaining work to be done is roughly on par with the “fix the easier to fix issues”, and hashing out the remainder here feels less valuable than just doing the work. I do think a case could be made that the easier stuff was worth doing first, but we made the decision to switch when it seemed like we’d make more rapid progress on the “easier” stuff after we’d fixed some underlying issues.
I do probably agree with the implied “public beta should have waited another month or something” (though with a caveat that many of the problems didn’t become apparent until the site was actually under a real load)