central: central: I actually slightly disagree - I think we need the data, we need information, we don’t need something that shows progress.

I slightly disagree

Sometimes they’ve given out lots of detail about a problem but people get upset because it doesn’t tell them anything about progress. Now, I love the data, but people waiting want the product. Since the product isn’t shipping until WT decides it is ready, then what’s the next best thing? Being able to measure progress, in my opinion.

If they tell me that a new problem came up, detail it to death, but that’s it, the only thing I know is that it is likely to delay any shipping estimates - but I would not know what estimate is being delayed!

Otoh, if I know the plan is to test for two more weeks and then ship and then they announce a new problem, I at least know it will extend from that two weeks. And, hopefully, they provide a little more info such as, “We have a fix planned and will test it over the next week. If it works, we’ll continue with the rest of the schedule”. Which would basically mean a one week extension. We’d have gone backwards a step, but still know the steps. And then, after a week, we get a report on how testing went. Hopefully well so back down to two weeks. Another week goes by and we learn that nothing new has shown up so one week to go. As you get closer to any estimated shipping date, it means there is less chance of finding more problems.