I'm finding the lack of documentation is getting more and more a problem. A lot ot the documentation is based of version 4 or 5. I would like to see more documentation for example about the skin objects avaiable and how to use the in the correct way. I'm not a programmer thats reads and understands a lot of the code. The new search engine has lot of features, you can make extensions to is (how?), it indexes differently. How do i get my module from the old version to the new version.

I loved the documentation about the form patterns (http://uxguide.dotnetnuke.com/) And would like to see simular for the skin objects.

Martijn, we are well aware of the lack of this support, but this is an area, which IMHO needs an overall strategy for, as I call it, "semi-static" content. I don't see a bunch of modules implementing its own solution to localize tags, lists, role names.

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Sebastian Leupold

   

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This problem has always existed for any closed source module. However good/bad the author may lose interest or get hit by a bus. Result everything stops.

It is ALSO true for open source modules. When no-one chooses to develop it; everything stops. Even if you have the source code, for a large module it's a big effort to understand it and maintain it yourself. A much bigger effort to develop it further. If you don't have programming skills then it's a big cost.

The core buying up a module is purely a special case. The module is now tantalizingly close. It still exists. We can see it/smell it/almost touch it/maybe even see other, richer, site owners using it.

Worse - we know we will be denied it; we know WHO is denying us; AND it's the same people we rely on for the core code. As Rodney points out, the history of the top few, high profile and good quality modules is that they are bought, and taken private. It's hard to know how much to trust the people that do that.

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Best wishes,
- Richard
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