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WARNING - This might be seen as a controversial posting, my intention is not to rattle cages, but to find out exactly what is going on at the moment. Before I start I just want to say this is in no way intended to degrade the excellent work being done by the DNN team, I am a big fan. Full stop. OK then, deep breath....

I've been observing Gemini recently, and I don't see much progress fixing bugs. Charles (my main man!) seems to have disappeared altogether (I know he's been to the UK recently, and I'm sure he deserves a holiday).

Even so, there are some real nasty bugs being logged (too many by me I know), and some essential enhancements and tasks that need implemented.

Now I realise a lot of the work is voluntary and resources are very limited, but I believe some members of staff are paid full time according to the excellent DNN book that came out a few months ago.

My question is this. Does DNN Corp have a 100% full time bug fixing person working on calls logged in Gemini? esp. for the framework? If not why not? (can you not afford it?). I realise other people fix the bugs as well (voluntary), and thank you to all of them, but I am beginning to think something needs to be done to get Gemini moving again. What is to be done?

Now before anybody says to me, “why don't I lend a hand?”, well my programming skills are probably aren't up to scratch yet. I'm working on this. Secondly I have my own sites to look after, thirdly I am far too busy logging calls in Gemini :) and fourthly yes I will donate money to DNN as soon as I get my first couple of sales, or make any money via the DNN application.

Gemini just seems like a black hole at the moment, maybe this is just my wrong perception. This was not the case between the period of development between 4.3.4 and 4.3.5, quite the oppersite. So what's happened?

Sorry but I always think it is always better to be frank about such matters. I suspect a lot of the team are working their a*se off, but when can we some progress with bug fixing/tasks/enhancements?

I'd very much appreciate any constructive comments (digging my bunker now :).

Many Thanks - really!

Alex

In general: it is a stated policy of DNN, to try to release a new version every 6-8 weeks, but as 3.3.2 to 3.3.5 demonstrated, this is an average period, depending on the size of enhancements and urgent needs - e.g. security issues.

Regarding 3.3.6: There have been issue found, that need further investigation, therefore it has not been released to beta testers yet.

Release schedule of DNN is completely separated from module releases. Modules are now undergoing a release process to ensure high stability and documentation. Current policy is to include latest install version of all stable modules in install and source package.