Shaun Walker shared DotNetNuke Corporation's vision for the future of DotNetNuke during his OpenForce '07 keynote address.

DotNetNuke "Cambrian" will incorporate features in five main areas: Social Networking and Widgets, Workflow, Core Modules, Dynamic Content Localization and Admin UX/Skinning Engine.

You can view the presentation at the OpenForce '07 website at http://www.OpenForce07.com

Nik

So I still find it interesting that there is a grand vision, but there is no proof that the releases even come close to the vision statement or the milestones!  Where is the release notes?  How can DotNetNuke say its ready for the Corporate World when there is no audit trail!  And what suprises me is that there is so little clamour for DNN to make this part of its release cycle.

Its very easy, you ask each project to make release notes, and these are merged together (either manually or automatically) and suddently there is some substance.  No corporate company is going to waste $500 or more each release just on a person weeding through the fathom of bugs and features in the change logs to figure what has changed between releases.  Not to mention a proper corporate cycle requires a sandbox to test the environment in first, then perhaps a "test" environment, and then of course the production environment.   This all takes time = $$$$.  So these notes justify why they should be upgrading.

This is the only product I have found that doesn't have a release list, nor any way of proving its doing what it says its doing in its release plan.  Sure you have "updates"  and they "do stuff"  but thats all that 99.9% of the community knows.  And you expect them all to trust you that the changes are the right ones and that they work. Most people don't like suprises.  I know this from personal experience as a development manager that they like the security in knowing that things are working the way that they expect and if they are changed on them, that they are warned in advance.

I hope that this time perhaps my message is read by someone who can make this happen.

Thanks

Quentin J Sarafinchan