05-May-2018, 22:21
I was looking forward with some optimism to the impending Infinity Log release which eventually came on 4 May, six weeks after the last one on 23 March which Olivier described as having software regressions. I think that is computer-speak for programming errors …
Those of you in the UK will know that, at the moment, there is an advert on television by a company called Indeed, promoting its recruitment software and using, as an example, the recruitment of a project manager with five years’ experience.
It seems to me that we should have a collection on Devialetchat so we can send Devialet the money to buy that software and recruit the project manager, because there is a lot of evidence at the customer end that the project to deliver the fully functioning CI board is just not working.
Let’s look at the promises:
17 October (Sannie): 7 November release; will contain UPnP, Airplay, Spotify
20 October: will contain AIR and Roon; Bluetooth, Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz, internet radio over the coming months
7 November (Sannie): we have missed release date; AIR (AIR3) both ethernet and wifi not ready but will be over next few weeks; Roon not ready but will be in next few weeks; Spotify Connect not ready will be over next phase; Airplay issues to resolve; UPnP days away from releasing internally then final testing; source to source switching not ready.
Promises from Sannie on 7 November: by 24 November - Release Candidates for AIR3 and UPnP and Beta for AIR, Spotify Connect, AirPlay and UPnP.
Sannie then disappears with not a word from him in six months and Olivier attempts to keep customers up to date and is still trying to fulfil things promised five and a half months ago.
Although there has been some inconsistency in what was promised in the first phase of the CI board development, it appears to have been UPnP, Airplay, Spotify, Air and Roon. Even within that we have had inconsistencies of terminology by using terms Air and AIR and AIR3; Spotify and Spotify Connect; Airplay and AirPlay. Just sloppy.
I suggested to Olivier that, for each piece of project functionality, there should be list published of things fixed before last update, things fixed since last update, things Devialet will still fix, newly emerged thing to fix, and things Devialet won’t fix in this phase.
And yet if you look at the 23 March and 4 May reports, there were only four things being worked on on 23 March yet six things fixed on 4 May but five things still to fix, including all four from the 23 March report plus a new one related to Air.
How can anyone make a decision to have the CI board fitted when there is a degree of chaos in managing this project?
Furthermore, we have had firmwares 12.2.6 and 10 and 12 - but what happened to the others; and we have had Beta and Beta10 and Beta14; and the rather quaintly termed Release Candidate 2.1 and 3, which I know is terminology in the computer market but is really a way of saying “we think this works but we are still not sure”.
At least Devialet must be embarrassed, because the 4 May report was issued late on Friday evening and immediately closed for comments.
Useful.
Those of you in the UK will know that, at the moment, there is an advert on television by a company called Indeed, promoting its recruitment software and using, as an example, the recruitment of a project manager with five years’ experience.
It seems to me that we should have a collection on Devialetchat so we can send Devialet the money to buy that software and recruit the project manager, because there is a lot of evidence at the customer end that the project to deliver the fully functioning CI board is just not working.
Let’s look at the promises:
17 October (Sannie): 7 November release; will contain UPnP, Airplay, Spotify
20 October: will contain AIR and Roon; Bluetooth, Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz, internet radio over the coming months
7 November (Sannie): we have missed release date; AIR (AIR3) both ethernet and wifi not ready but will be over next few weeks; Roon not ready but will be in next few weeks; Spotify Connect not ready will be over next phase; Airplay issues to resolve; UPnP days away from releasing internally then final testing; source to source switching not ready.
Promises from Sannie on 7 November: by 24 November - Release Candidates for AIR3 and UPnP and Beta for AIR, Spotify Connect, AirPlay and UPnP.
Sannie then disappears with not a word from him in six months and Olivier attempts to keep customers up to date and is still trying to fulfil things promised five and a half months ago.
Although there has been some inconsistency in what was promised in the first phase of the CI board development, it appears to have been UPnP, Airplay, Spotify, Air and Roon. Even within that we have had inconsistencies of terminology by using terms Air and AIR and AIR3; Spotify and Spotify Connect; Airplay and AirPlay. Just sloppy.
I suggested to Olivier that, for each piece of project functionality, there should be list published of things fixed before last update, things fixed since last update, things Devialet will still fix, newly emerged thing to fix, and things Devialet won’t fix in this phase.
And yet if you look at the 23 March and 4 May reports, there were only four things being worked on on 23 March yet six things fixed on 4 May but five things still to fix, including all four from the 23 March report plus a new one related to Air.
How can anyone make a decision to have the CI board fitted when there is a degree of chaos in managing this project?
Furthermore, we have had firmwares 12.2.6 and 10 and 12 - but what happened to the others; and we have had Beta and Beta10 and Beta14; and the rather quaintly termed Release Candidate 2.1 and 3, which I know is terminology in the computer market but is really a way of saying “we think this works but we are still not sure”.
At least Devialet must be embarrassed, because the 4 May report was issued late on Friday evening and immediately closed for comments.
Useful.
Innuos Statement 2TB SSD with Next-Gen PSU (with Roon lifetime)
MacBook Pro (with Air)
Draytek Vigor 2860v-Plus/Devialet Original d'Atelier CI Nos. 54A&B/Magico M3 pair
Shunyata cables (digital/interconnect/loudspeaker/power)/Shunyata power units (Triton/Typhon)
Dialog/Phantom Gold/Tree pair
Missing Link cables (power)
England
