Salama wrote
1- When someone purcahses the PE edition and finds a bug. What the process of the person getting it fixed and how is it different than reporting the bug in Gemeni and getting it in the next version. What am I getting extra in the Pro edition in terms of bug fixes?
Technical support for Pro is a support-ticket system, and primarily provides how-to advice and workarounds for bugs users come across. If bugs are found as a result of a support ticket the bug will be added to gemini si it will be fixed in all editions of DNN.
Salama wrote
2- It seems the support promised by the corp is only for the core part of DNN. Why aren't the modules included? I mean the modules are packaged and installed with DNN. DNN without the modules is pretty useless. Many reportsed bugs are in the modules.
The Professional distribution is supported - currently this is approximately the same as the Comunnity Edition distribution. ie core, providers and all core modules. We do not offer support for 3rd party modules - we may work with customers and 3rd party vendors to resolve any issues.
Salama wrote
3- Which version of DNN 5.0 the corp is going to support? This is not clear. It could be a month from now or a year. It seems this is dependent on how the corp feels about the stability of DNN 5 and not really about version #. Version numbers are arbitrary and if 5.1 is going to be the stable one, there can be many 5.0.x coming out. So basically no one knows when the PE will officially migrate to DNN 5.0.
DNN 4.9.2 is the current Pro distribution. Which version of DNN 5 we support in Pro has not been finalised yet.
Salama wrote
4- This is my personal opinion. I asked for betas or release candidates for 5 but it seems we will get 5.0.x versions out which are somehow beta releases disguised as official releases. Now way of 'forcing' people to try and test these versions. Because there are no quilms about the number of bugs being released.
Moving forward we will probably have a more formal Beta process (for 5.1 for example) with one or two Betas and an RC prior to public release. Whether the Betas will be public or limited release has not been decided yet.