Cathal:
Unfortunately, I am one of many that was unaware of the core wiki initiative.  I am highly pleased to hear that it is already on the table.  That's awesome!

Oliver Hine:
The trunk will probably not ever be opened up.  That is a form of necessary control that has kept the DNN core as stable as it has been up to this point.  That being said, we probably had a greater chance of that happening before the funding occured.  However, I am not convinced that having the trunk being open would be a good thing either way.  I favor the side of security and stability, while at the same time, I see your point at people being able to see pending changes.  (I have seen you make a pretty good argument for it in another thread.)

Of course it will be better! I have spent hours yesterday installing legacy skins because the darn batch installer is BROKEN in 5.0.1. Very very frustrating. Frustrating because I reported the problem in 5.0.0. I used the repackskin kindly developed by a volunteer in 5.0.0. Now this tool doesn't help in 5.0.1.

I have asked several times to release beta's or RC's and I got non convincing replies. I am going to post a separate post because I am actually pissed off now.

What are the security concerns? Please explain.

With all do respect. My post was about the ambience that has been layed out over the last several weeks (months?) by the ambiguity in the announcements. I suspect that those of you that are embedded in the business side of DNN do not have the perspective of the audience. What has been posted does not leave a very comfortable feeling. That is a fact. It has just left questions and generated some fear of what the heck is going on and especially, what is to come. We have been waiting to make CMS decisions and had DNN on the top of the list. The announcement left the stated that the PE documentation was going to be "comprehensive".  This implies that the CE was not going to be. A red X on the comparison helped with that too. 

This thread may be helping to alleviate some of that but only because people like you respond.

The first I heard of $2,000 was this week. When I clicked on the Purchase icon it presented a form. In my 20 some years of experience that form means... $10,000.00 to get started. 

FYI, I buy all the books. Just got 5.0 last week. I paid for many videos. I like to keep the community going and am very willing to support it.