11 September 2007

I Miss ColdFusion 8 Beta

Why?

Well because they had a bug tracker, I could submit a bug and find the status of that bug. This is a great and powerful feature that instills confidence that a reported bug has even been seen.

What we have now is a wish form, where you can send through a bug or wish, but you never know what has happened with it after that. Every hot fix that comes out you check the release notes hoping that your bug made it, and if it didn't you wonder, did they get it?

The bug I'm referring to is the &nbsp; placed in every tab of <cflayout making it hard to place content at the top of tabs. Now compared to the bugs that were fixed in this first hot fix, it's probably not significant and I'm really happy that they have released a hot-fix so quickly, great job.

It's the unknown factor that I am uneasy with. There may be a good reason why there isn't a bug tracking system like in the beta where you can track your bug, see if QA has verified it and perhaps see which release or hotfix it might be fixed in, but I really can't think of any negatives for that. And they have the program already, it was in the beta system.

4 comments:

Jim said...

I'd love to hear Adobe's take on this?? I can't think of any software I use that doesn't have a public bug system online - CFEclipse, jQuery, etc... I can't imagine the amount of time Adobe spends just dealing with duplicate bug submissions?

Jim - james_papaleo@partech.com said...

Dale,

I read your comments about CF8 ajax not working. http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:52758

I can't get ajax to work on CF8 and was hoping that you found the solution to the problem.

Jim

Todd Sharp said...

Dale - Sorry for the comment - but I don't see any other way to contact you.

Can you ping me off blog - I have some .net integration questions and saw your thread on cf-talk...

IM = cfsilence at gmail
email = todd at cfsilence

Thanks

(PS you can delete this comment...)

James Allen said...

Hi Dale,

Good to see I'm not the only one to be annoyed about the   insertion when using CFLAYOUT. Took me ages yesterday trying to figure out why as soon as I placed a div in my tab I got a stupid big space at the top of it!

I have ended up having to run some Javascript upon page load to clean up the code in the tabs! Very hackish.. It really does need fixing.