Originally Posted by
Starman
+1! Not trying to quibble, but I'd argue this is not a bug, that requires a "fix" when they have time, but probably rather a rather major architecture decision in SHARES made long ago, namely that WL processing cannot start at any arbitrary time, triggered by something external like bucket availability. Of course, much easier to program that way. For all we know, in the current system someone has to carry a deck of punched cards from one room to another in IAH to start the WL processing. Anyway, revising the architecture of the system can be, as you point out, an enormous job. They may never do it, until they move away from SHARES in the year 2030.
Sorry absolutely right, it may also be a design decision to run in this way for any number of reasons. What I should have said is that even presuming it is a bug the fix may be non-trivial and low priority, which doesn't indicate it can't or won't be fixed.
Originally Posted by
UA-NYC
So you're saying Apollo was a more advanced system then?
No, I'm saying that different systems have different design parameters that effect how they operate. I'm sure adding partner award search to Apollo would have been non-trivial although it works pretty well on SHARES.