15 Tickets!

There are so many issues with my site. Bugs here, bugs there...... Most of the ones I have found have been fixed already. I noticed there are only 15 open tickets in Trac.

The real question....

Can we expect the update to 7.01 next week?

THAT'S RIGHT - Boonex Dolphin is synonymus of "BUGS".

for many many years!

So why do you use it ?

LOL @ SashaE

Because it looks better than any other community application out there ???

Because when people pay for and install a "finished" product they think that it'll actually work ???

Especially when some of those people have waited 6 - 8 *MONTHS* for the final version ???

Or because people like myself have PAID MONEY for a PROFESSIONAL D7 licensed installation which isn't working either???

Umh, maybe because some of us actually believe all of the hype from the Boonex Startpage ???

Or maybe because some people who've seen the "ZILLION" D6 problems actually believed that all would finally be fixedl ???

Comments like "So why do you use it" are nothing short of ridiculous! A waste of time and a slap in the face for those people with less coding or server administrative skills. You can talk your BS all you want with snide comments like that, but when someone has a top of the line server and paid for a licensed D7 installation after making sure that all listed D7 requirements have been met, then people like that should certainly have the right to complain about all of the problems that are being encountered due to no fault of their own. D6 was nothing but a nightmare with problem after problem. Drupal doesn't even compare to Dolphin, so I waited almost 8 months just to find out that 8 months of waiting may have been nothing but a waste of time. And then "us newbies with problems" get to read crap like that. Geeeez, you don't have anything better to do with your time ... something more CONSTRUCTIVE perhaps ???

Boonex did save us thousands of hours of developing time, so I'm not complaining about a few bugs.. :)

Ooops, I'm sorry, I guess I should be grateful to Microsoft then and continue to pay for their mistakes and problems too? Heck, since MS sells complete Operating Systems maybe us ignorant consumers should pay even more, willingly and gladly, since Windows has been developed far longer than Dolphin? Nope, not for me, my solution was a switch to Ubuntu after 18 years of paying for problems ....

Umh, did you miss the line that mentioned PAID INSTALLATION for a LICENSED version of D7 ???

I'm curious how you would feel if you paid someone money for a licensed product installation that didn't work afterwards? My wife and I (and many others too, I'm sure) can't afford expenditures like that. And how do you define a few bugs? Here, how about checking out this little bug ....
Just a little sound bug, no biggie at all, right?

Whatever ....

Sorry but it is not a bug if it is only you experiencing the issue.  The fact is the sound and video bugs were very vetted during beta 6, 7, 8 where the function truly did not work.  Now if you have everything properly configured the sounds and videos do work as intended.  I have a live site and a demo site that I constantly break and reinstall and don't have any problems with the sound.  If this were a bug then my sound wouldn't work, and neither would any other d7 site.  Ergo, your issue is not a bug but in all probability a cron setup issue.  Try running the cron by hand and see if the sound encodes.  Run a search, there are hundreds of other post on how to make your sound work.  Most of us are extremely tired of responding to the same question over and over again because someone doesn't want to use search.

Now I'm not saying dolphin is perfect and without issue as it does have issues that are being slowly worked out over time.  This is open source software, meaning a community effort to bring it together.  We've all pulled our hair, screamed, shouted, endlessly bumped post, made videos, protested, went on strike, and more to try and make dolphin a better program.  Why are we all still here, well I am in the belief we're all still here because we realize that dolphin, despite its shortfalls, is still one of the better if not best community programs available.  Why else would you stay and endure this test?

Wow. Talk about topic heisting....

All I wanted to know is if we can expect a release this week. If we weren;t going to get one, I was going to go ahead and apply some of the fixes available in Trac so I can solve some of my more immediate problems.

Of course, I was going to upload a small audio file here from my site to just say that out loud but you can't embed a file from one Dolphin into another and actually have it work.

Wow... SF managed to start a fight thread.  This is way to damn good to not be poppin' the popcorn and slammin' the beers as I watch it.  And to think, I didn't even have to mention to meinecommunity how D6.1.6 was almost (not quite) bug free.  Of course, I guess you have to determine what you call a bug.

If you don't like the color that could be a bug,

If you don't like square corners that could be a bug,

If you don't like SQL DB's that could be a bug,

If you don't like headers & footers that could be a bug,

If you don't like blocks that could be a bug,

If you don't like polls (not being racist here) that could be a bug,

If you don't like Orca... Well, that is a giant bug I have to admit.  Sorta like a cockroach, just can't get rid of the dang thing no matter how hard ya nuke it.

If you don't like Articles that could be a bug,

If you don't like Blogs that could be a bug,

If you don't like Ray (Sorry Ray, some people just like Mark, Dave, Tom, Ed, Gary, Hank, Zeus and even myself a little better than you) then that could be a bug,

If you don't like Joomla that could be a bug.

See, anythin' can be a bug.  Maybe he feels the colors are just to dark on the tmpl_uni template.  They are kinda dark doncha think. 

Y'all come back and fight some more ya hear!

Correction: There are currently 16 tickets in Trac for Dolphin 7.0.1.

You had to jinx it, didn't you?

My bad for 16, but it's an annoying issue that needs to be resolved.

Indeed. It's not really any issue with adding tickets, but the actual pace of development. On some days, we see the developers closing tickets at blazing speeds. Other days (like recently), we don't even hear a peep from them.

I see you.

Of course, the lack of a patch wouldn't be such an annoying thing, if they actual made it an obligatory habit to post the needed revision information for any fixes, instead of leaving us guessing with a simple message: fixed.

It's pretty presumptious of you to think that I haven't used the search function in order to find a solution. Maybe you're lacking comprehension, but I stated clearly that we have a server that, according to the Boonex requirements, meets and/or surpasses those requirements. I also stated that it was a licensed version of D7 and I furthermore stated that IN ORDER TO AVOID ANY PROBLEMS we paid for an installation by a qualified professional, one who's recommended by Boonex.

So what more do you want?

I shouldn't need to do more than that and I don't give a damn about cron jobs because I don't even know how to set one up. That's not a Boonex requirement, creating your own cron jobs. I don't give a damn about your presumptions because we paid for a professional installation. Having paid for a professional installation I EXPECT ONE OF TWO THINGS, either for the product to work right out of the box, period, no questions asked .... OR .... for the qualified, experienced professional to recognize that something is amiss so that we can be told about that - which would then enable us to fix any issue that's on our end, either paid or on our own. Instead, we're hanging in limbo! You may be sick and tired of responding to the same questions over and over, but I'm just as sick and tired of experienced people who have nothing better to do than to shoot others down, criticize needlessly, and provide little to zero sympathy for problems THAT WERE NOT CREATED BY THE END USER.

And no, my problems is not unique. Other people have posted too, about their D7 video and/or sound uploads not working. Nobody seems to have a real, viable solution, yet some people (YOU) are awfully quick to offer misplaced criticism. I may not ANSWER a lot of posts (answer tons of them on ubuntu forums for free in two languages though) but when I do, I really try to provide something of value without shooting people down for the situation that they're in. If I don't know the answer ... I STAY AWAY FROM THE POST ALTOGETHER or maybe subscribe to it so that I can learn something from it later! Whether or not our problem is a bug is something that I can't answer. My earlier reply belonged here though since it was about bugs in general and since I can't get anyone to provide any real answers in my own post about these sound issues.

You're trying to deny that any problem you are facing is on a personal, not system-wide level by stating that your server is properly configured, and that a installation was performed by someone supposedly recommended by BoonEx. You need to realize that even with these kind of safeguards in place, issues can, and in many cases, will arise. It does not mean that it is a bug in the script, but a misconfiguration either during the script's installation, or somewhere after. Apologies for sounding like a broken record, but that's simply fact.

If you don't give a damn personally, and don't wish for a second to get your hands dirty to make this script work the way you want, then, apologies, but this script honestly isn't for you. If your installation appears to have been done incorrectly, then I suggest you contact the person who installed the script for you, and tell them that you are facing issues that are due to a misconfiguration of either the server, or script (or even both). If they do not wish to look into it, then I would suggest you demand your money back.

Mauricecano is hardly someone to shoot others down, and he is a well respected member of this community who, like others, dedicates much of his time to providing support to people, even when he doesn't need to. You're still stating that these problems are due to the script and not yourself. You need to realize that this isn't the case, and, to see an example, look at http://boonex.us/, where a properly configured installation of Dolphin 7 is located, without any hidden custom fixes or patches.

Just because others are having this problem, doesn't mean that it is an issue with the script. If twenty people are going jogging and five head down the wrong trail, getting horribly lost... well, it's obviously there own fault, and not of anyone else's. I understand how frustrating it can be, and you can count me in as one of those who suffered through a horrendous misconfiguration of an installation and was left scratching my head for nearly a month. Instead of coming in here, barking (couldn't resist) at other people, you should bring this up with whoever installed the script for you.

Regards,

Magnussoft

I have no problem at all with getting my hands dirty ... but that's impossible to do so when posts remain unanswered. The first thing that I did was to search for a solution ... which is why I resent the implication of not looking for answers ... and the second thing that I did was to write a post, explaining the situation in detail, including actual screenshots in action. And yes, I've contacted Anton too, waiting for an answer there. And you're wrong about me insisting on the script being the problem. As a matter of fact, I clearly stated: Whether or not our problem is a bug is something that I can't answer ... in my last reply.

Sorry SkyForum, I didn't mean to hijack the thread. Just responding to answers. I was actually trying to be somewhat helpful in my own lame way by responding to the implications that some people should not use the product - or being asked why they continue to use it - or being told to use the search function without knowing if that hadn't already been tried. I'm a member in 5 forums and I'm very actively involved in 4 of them. It gets me every time though when I see people with THOUSANDS of comments of which half or more were acquired with meaningless crap that does no one any good whatsoever (why use it - did you use the search - LOL - and so on). Geeez, if everyone padded like that ... We'd all be viewed as experts! Again, sorry, I'll stay away.

see what you did Sky!!LOL

Ok now, say this new version does come out, since I am new to this of course and my site is finally done except a couple of tweaking including the sound module (but working on it)

How does the upgrade exactly work? we all have done a lot of work to our sites, some more than other i'm sure. But will we have to re build our customizations? Hell we all have changed bits and pieces of codes and colors. added stuff, took out stuff. what effect will this have?

Sorry, still newbie I guess, I just came in two weeks before the D-7 launch.

Derrick

Truthfully? There is always a caveat with a major upgrade. If you have modified any of the files they have fixed, they are probably going to be overwritten. The way I see it, you have 3 choices. You can either suffer and wait and not make ANY changes to any of the default files and do the update all at once, OR you can go through and apply the changesets as they are created to fix each individual problem and forego the update thereby leaving your custom changes intact.

The 3rd choice is the one I use. I keep a very good log on all files in my site that have been customized in any fashion, I then apply the update and go through the list using my log file and "fix" the custom files that were overwritten.

As far as the fight goes, it seems to be progressing nicely. I got my easy chair, my bag of popcorn and my beer just watching to see who swings first.

Lol, That's funny!

Well I have been keeping most of my records so I guess thats good, but what about like modules that have been added? they probably want stay will they?

And I seem to have a problem reading the trac. I can find all the forums about the bugs, but when i go to the trac. I cant seem to find the remedies, surely there is a forum on how to go about it, I will have to look again. Most of the issues I have are ok, so not really interested in the upgrade I guess.

Thanks,

Derrick