Hello.

It seemed like www.dotnetnuke.com had a little problem yesterday afternoon here in the states.  Around 2-3PM EDT yesterday the home page was available, but any of the links on the page gave a database error (index, or array out of bounds) and reported DNN 4.5...

It was about an hour and then the site was back normal.  Did anyone else experience those symptoms?

I am a new user of the framework and like it very much.

Regards,

ltm

AFAIK there was a site failure yesterday - eventually due to the fact, that DotNetNuke.com already got dogfooded with DNN 4.5.0 RC. This will be investigated to make sure, that this issue has been fixed in the final version. The core team has the intend to release DNN on March, 19th, but please be patient, if there is another minor delay, due to the time needed for the fix. 

Regarding the team's dogfooding strategy, have a look at this thread.

Greetings All ~

We definitely do eat our own dogfood around here... in fact, we do a better job of that than most.  We don't eat it behind closed doors... we push it right out here for everyone to see... warts and all.  As far as when we dogfood... we'll probably never do that on an RC1... nor would we recommend anyone do that.  RC1 is the first package that goes to a controlled audience for their brutal real world testing (testing major site upgrades).  Invariably, new issues are discovered and an RC2 follows... and often, the final release is an RC3.

We dogfood after we've had a chance to evaluate RC1.  If we wait for RC2, it will then occur sometime shortly after RC2 is packaged, depending upon how the work is scheduled.  No mystery, no conspiracy, no failure to accept our responsibility, etc.  In this case RC2 was applied during a lower traffic window of site operation (usually late PM in the US) two business days after packaging was completed.

The questions are welcome.  The fact is, they have deliberate answers.  Everyone gets antsy around release time *grin*.

Scott Willhite, Co-Founder DNN