While I agree in spirit let's not be too hard on them. Yes, the beta program (oops- sorry Adam, "programme" You crazy people and your extra letters! ;^) ) is no place to make architecture changes, but that's far from the other outlet.
Most of the new features of CF are customer suggestions/requests. The wishlist is public and there were many pre-beta previews, focus groups and other opportunities for input. I remember sessions at DevCon three years ago for Neo. I do wish that the process was more formalized. I'd prefer to see CFML open-sourced or at least have a formal, open specification but lacking that I think there's a lot that can be done to borrow from those processes even for a closed-source system. Still - it's not like they NEVER talk to us. Jim Davis > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Matt Liotta > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 12:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [CFCDev] More CFMX Excellence with Component Inheritance > > > There *was* a pretty comprehensive beta programme, though. And a lot > > of > > what I noticed was sorted out by the time CFMX was released, with the > > bulk of the rest being sorted in the 6.1 release. > > > A beta program is for weeding out bugs; not making design changes. By > the time the community was involved it was already too late. There is a > long history in the software industry of customers knowing a vendor's > product better than the vendor. The CFML community is no different in > that the people best able to lead changes to the actual language don't > work for Macromedia. Let the product managers think up new > functionality; leave the core language to the community or at least to > a process that involves the community. > > -Matt > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' > in the message of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported > by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail- > archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
