Hi, I wish to write my opinion on Umbraco 5 stop and its strategy to communicate it.
I think that was a bad decision for the community because you have to share decision with community before that and not announce it in GC12 where a lot of people came to hear the news on Umbraco5. I think that you don't have a marketing strategy because you could announce a renaming of the project to UmbracoMVC 1.0 and continue to maintain 4.x and after hop to 6.x or say UmbracoMVC for MVC supporters and 4.x -> for WebForm supporters.
Why Do stop v5 after a lot time and effort on it? It' s not possibile a this time. Is there some wrong in your "tracker"? Why Did you ask help to community or share it before?
Why Did you not hear the Voice of Customer? A lot of things are not changed from a lot of time ( see Umbraco backend, XSLT Engine, Documentation ( sparse and not complete ), permissions on document type fields, Umbraco Documentype fields like naviHidden and so must be write everytime, ecc ) ..
Have you study your "enemies" ( Composite and Orchard )? Have you see their documentation?...There is one official point of it and not sparse..Have you see code or features? Some important features are out of box and not added by modules and packages that work for a version and not for the next. Some main features like blog, etc are developped and mainteined by core team and this is important.
I think that is time to reorganize everything on this project like software tracker and software engineering methodology but marketing too.
Hear the VOC like other big brands that are not followers ( see Microsoft in the last time, Apple and others )...
Never lost the focus to the market and customers and their voices.
My point of view on freeze Umbraco v5
Hi, I wish to write my opinion on Umbraco 5 stop and its strategy to communicate it.
I think that was a bad decision for the community because you have to share decision with community before that and not announce it in GC12 where a lot of people came to hear the news on Umbraco5. I think that you don't have a marketing strategy because you could announce a renaming of the project to UmbracoMVC 1.0 and continue to maintain 4.x and after hop to 6.x or say UmbracoMVC for MVC supporters and 4.x -> for WebForm supporters.
Why Do stop v5 after a lot time and effort on it? It' s not possibile a this time. Is there some wrong in your "tracker"? Why Did you ask help to community or share it before?
Why Did you not hear the Voice of Customer? A lot of things are not changed from a lot of time ( see Umbraco backend, XSLT Engine, Documentation ( sparse and not complete ), permissions on document type fields, Umbraco Documentype fields like naviHidden and so must be write everytime, ecc ) ..
Have you study your "enemies" ( Composite and Orchard )? Have you see their documentation?...There is one official point of it and not sparse..Have you see code or features? Some important features are out of box and not added by modules and packages that work for a version and not for the next. Some main features like blog, etc are developped and mainteined by core team and this is important.
I think that is time to reorganize everything on this project like software tracker and software engineering methodology but marketing too.
Hear the VOC like other big brands that are not followers ( see Microsoft in the last time, Apple and others )...
Never lost the focus to the market and customers and their voices.
This is my opinion.
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