First the "1/4" thing. Matt Bourke has just challenged me to release another four blog articles today. Let's see if I can do it. I make no apologies for the quality (or length) of the writing today. I'm not in the pub for one thing ;-)
This one is really short, but was underway before Matt challenged me.
Ages ago I commented derisively about how poor Adobe had been at triaging ColdFusion 10 bugs: "212 untriaged ColdFusion 10 bugs" & followed that up with 'Follow-up to "212 untriaged ColdFusion 10 bugs"'. I'm pleased to say Adobe have done some good work here, and that number is down to 52.
I periodically send various status updates via my @CfmlNotifier Twitter account:
- whenever an unresolved bug or enhancement request is updated (status change, comment or vote added);
- a count of how many ColdFusion 10 bugs remain untriaged.
2013-12-31 14:50 Untriaged ColdFusion 9.x bug count: 43. List: http://t.co/uxbQrL6UIZ
— CF Bug Notifier (@cfbugnotifier) December 31, 2013
It'd be great to see if Adobe could chip away at that list too.I'm a firm believer that it's pretty unacceptable for a publicly-facing bug to go untriaged for more than a day or so. Note that I don't mean it should be fixed / dealth with, but someone at Adobe should at least have looked at it, attempted to replicate it, and in general fed-back to their client what they think, or if they need more information.
There are ColdFusion 9 bugs in there that have remained untriaged since July 2010. That's 3.5 years ago! That's really pretty poor, I think.
Anyway, maybe this info will be mildly informative for you. And I hope this might encourage Adobe to further lift their game. They're currently developing ColdFusion 11, so there's really no excuse at all for them to not have had a look at every bug that's been raised in the product, and make a decision on what to do about it.
Cheers.
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Adam
