23.20 Breaks watchface layout

 Garmin's testing methods are supreme!
How is it possible to get THIS into public release?!

  • we are the testers, buddy *sigh*

  • public betas are for public to test.
    But I truly cant understand, why was the bug ignored and taken into public release!
    This bug was reported almost a week before rollout, garmin could fix it or postpone the rollout. that's why there was a public beta prerelease!
    why did they decided to ignore it? Considered minor?

  • Garmin definitely has its software quality problems, but in all fairness, with a large software like a smartwatch firmware, you cannot delay a public release until every single reported bug has been fixed. New bugs are found constantly, and often take time to track, fix, and go through some additional testing. If you waited for all of them to be fixed, you would never release a public version within reasonable time. Garmin seems to try to fix most verified "critical" bugs (watch crashes etc.) before release, but they also seem to have a quite fixed quarterly release schedule. 

    What I'm more concerned about is how so many bugs end up in firmwares in the first place.

  • (To put things in perspective, I recently received a notification about a bug I had reported in a major programming language compiler. The notification said it will be fixed in the next major release. But the bug was reported and acknowledged ... 17 years ago!)

  • which software is that?
    something from microsoft?
    the thing with this particular bug, it was introduced with the latest beta. and it's on the nose!
    and really, to align to circles in a single watchface a few pixels shoudn't be so difficult. and there's git, just look it up, how it was before.
    Of course, I can't know how it really is. that's why I'm asking. why something like that happens. it's not the first time some obvious, newly introduced UI bugs go through beta, get reported and still land in the release

  • Same issue here. Couldn't quite believe it was still there after powercycling the watch. It seems there some potential in Garmin's QA processes.