Versioning and Releasing Patches and Updates

mistaken, and no clarity of conclusive evidence on what was a bad choice of verbiage.

First of all, this is not a bug report, although this has to do indirectly with bugs and the changing and versioning of the releases. Guys, when you modify the source, no matter how minute, if there is an issue with the Final Release source and you have to go edit the source to get the feature to function properly, that should change the download number. Dolphin-v.7.0.0 went out the door the first time  you modded the source code.

Let me explain why this is a true statement. Your release on the final dolphin as you called it, of course need some adjustments and fine tuning. Those of us in the community took the time to test and retest and post in the forums, and have other community members confirm that we were facing a bug, and not a server config, or user-error.

The bugs would in turn be posted to the Forum topic specifically allocated (presumably) for reporting bugs that were discovered, at which time some community member who has trac access would post a ticket to trac, as in accordance with the request of boonex. This would establish a ticket number in trac, and most all tickets which have been submitted it was reported that the fix would be in the Dolphin 7.1 release. Where this caused some grumblings, this was understandable in most instances.

My complaint is that many changes have been made to the source code since the final release of Dolphin 7, and there is no reflection of that in the download source. if the file is named Dolphin-v.7.0.0.zip that we would be using, the decimal incrementation should be used when you recompile the source.

I have faced an issue with the Flash Apps chat for the past few weeks, where no registered user could use the chat. visitors and admin could use the chat,  no registered user could use the chat. I contact Rayzzz who was nice enough to test this with me. He initially reported back after I provided him with the version number of the browser(s) i was using, and also provided him some screen shots.

Rayzzz was extremely helpful on this, and actually did track down the bug, but was not able to necessarily fix the issue, but was able to hack the script to get it to work.

A few things were discovered, in his initial testing, he was not facing any issues with the chat app, and reported that back to me. After i was persistent in expressing that something was broken, we were able to connect using skype, and started discussing the situation. The question was raised as to what version of flash plugin was I using on my browser(s) 10,x,x,x and he was using 9,x,x,x and was facing no issues using an older version of the flash plugin.

Where the big problem he would be that there are two resolutions, downgrade the flash plugin, which inconsequently is really not an option, or find what is breaking the chat. It was a mere matter of minutes that Rayzzz located what was breaking the chat:

http://some-site.com/flash/XML.php?module=chat&action=userAuthorize&id=13&password=d3eccfaab9054e5f7c6a696b707a552f9c185432&_t=7566

most who look at this would wonder in vain WTF is that? well this is a call to the users photo, and it was calling improperly, thus breaking chat. Rayzzz hacked "flash/modules/global/inc/customFunctions.inc.php" which stopped the call to the users profile image, and loaded the default male/female image from the widget, and presto the chat works adhoc. This proves something to me and fires up my gall immediately.

I had an inkling while in discussion with Rayzzz about this ordeal, that there could have been changes to the source code that were neither announced nor recorded in trac.I have a set of files on the server that I typically wget from one December 23, 2009. I have searched trac and there is no recollection of any changes that would assist in knowing which files would need to be updated in order to repair the file set that i had downloaded Dec. 23, 2009, which leads me to believe that changes were made to the fileset, and no record provided, no announcement provided, and no versioning provided.

This is truly annoying and extremely unprofessional as developers. If you change the source code that you are offering for download, that fileset should not be offered with changes and not versioning.

So i need to know the files that were changed that addressed the chat not loading for members when logged in. because it is clear that there were changes. Do i just need to take the flash apps and overwrite them from the fileset that is available now?

Can you guys start versioning these files, because Dolphin-v.7.0.0 no longer exists and there have been many changes, and the downloadable file should reflect that. So also, what about the installs that were done prior to the changes that were made, and clearly there were changes made and i will get the DIFF and get them post here later.

all verbiage that is stricken here should have been thought through and given the boonex staff an opportunity to acknowledge or deny the issue i was facing.

apologies to boonex and anybody i have caused confusion to because of my choice of words and my frustration.

Regards,

DosDawg