ez-crew - more feedback / plz focus your work on stability / wishlist

Thursday 27 November 2003 7:29:50 am

Hi ez crew,

I've made a quick view to 3.3.0 beta - and I am unhappy.

Many ez users have made suggestions / have done a lot of bug reporting and it seems that only very few bugs are solved. (I spend a lot of time reporting bugs. Moreover if I find a solution I report the solution too. But I will stop doing this if my reports are ignored because in that case it's a waste of time.)

New features are nice to have (and - of course - I also want new features :) - but IMHO bug fixing is more important than new features.

I am currently working with ez 3.2.3 and IMHO this is the first version which is usable (of the 3.x series) - despite all bugs.

But I am sure that I can't use all the features of this version because I don't know them. The documention is [*censored*] [*censored*] [*censored*] [*censored*].

So, you have done 3.3, add some new features - and don't document them. Fine.

So my wishlist to ez (it's christmas soon ;-):

-) Focus your work on bug fixing
-) Answer to forum posts / bug reportings more frequent
-) Append your documentation
-) Wait for new releases until the doc. is updated.

Thanx!

Bye,
Emil.

Best wishes,
Georg.

--
http://www.schicksal.com Horoskop website which uses eZ Publish since 2004

Thursday 27 November 2003 8:19:40 am

Dear Emil,

Thank you for your feedback. You do certainly have many imporant points, that I would like to comment on how we are to solve these.

1) bug fixing: The time from now untill final release will only be spent on bugfixing, and yes we have not had time to fix many bugs in this beta, but we will close out all relevant bugs in the bug list before final. So please give us more feedback helping us better improve this release.

For the future: From the next development cycle (after 3.3 final) we will dedicate 1 person at all time for bugfixing and community communication (forums etc). This will make sure that we close all bugs when they come and not at the end of eah development cycle as now. We will then release a new release, i.e 3.3.2, once there have been enough fixed that it is reasonable for a new release. this will be done through the whole development cycle. We will also update the former version, i.e. 3.2.x untill the 3.4 release is done, and then 3.3.x until 3.5 is out etc.

2) Forum/bug lists: one dedicated person as stated above.

3) Documentation is focus and has been for a couple of months already. We have one person dedicated at documentation at all times, plus we will get into the development routines that all functions beeing made will be documented when made. But eZ publish is a very large project and it is lots of work to update the current docs, so please be patient.

So please be patient, we do hear you and all your requests, and thus are dedicating resources directly at this making sure we mature and stabilize the software, but still make sure it evolves.

Aleksander