I'm glad you have decided to express yourself here. It's helpful.

ChadStrat

The PRB tries very hard to make sure all addons/themes work how they should, the guidelines and standards are being tightened up a bit aswell.

Most addons and themes work out of the box, no coding needed, so im not 100% sure what you are saying.

Thanks
Mike

It may be that I am aiming at add-ons and themes when one of the problems today was Softaculous installation being a tad off. But, I could cite a series of stone cold time-killers in trying to keep a theme or add-on up to snuff.
Then when I poke around in the forums all I seem to see is folks talking about code adjustments to employ, so that the whatchyamacallit will work the way that it was intended.
It reminds me of the much beloved book (back to word strings) Sermon on the Mount by Emmet Fox. I always have to tell people 'but he misread one of the beatitudes,' though this doesn't seem to dissuade their adoration. My point in the matter is that it wasn't caught (Emmet's error) because HE WORKED IN TOO MUCH ISOLATION, which brings us back to Ted, which brings us back to add-on coders in general, which brings us back to the PRB process.
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Certainly one problem is that there is not yet enough review type feedback to distinguish the well done material from the rest. The other thing is that it reminds me of my own efforts at writing (word strings in the English language). I could edit until I was blue in the face, and upon giving it to an editor watch as they turned red in the face. Ted Kaczynski, he was the only one who could express himself clearly without the help of an editor (I say this with eyes rolled back in head), and he was literally as smart as they get, in the coding sense of the smart-as-they-get ideation.
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I do agree that it would be nicer if people reviewed things more, people that review addons/themes are given karma, which in turns could allow them to win an addon.

And once again, the PRB (Peer Review Board) is mostly made up of volunteers, that give their time to help the community. It is hard to test an addon for every possible combination of things normally, and if you pile on the rest of a PRB member's life, you can understand why some things are missed.

Thanks,
Mike

Interesting expression to say the least. However having run many add-ons and themes I must say for the most part I have found very few add-ons or themes that do not work out of the box.

Have I found some, sure.

However your analogy of Apple and their approval process for the iOS really is apples and oranges. Apple owns the OS, hardware, and every aspect of their platform.

C5 on the other hand runs on top of many different systems, similar sure, but many many different configurations. Just by the very nature of the PRB you have these packages being tested in different scenarios, but unfortunately there is no way to test every possible setup. That is why you have the 30-day support, etc.

Having done a lot of web development over the last 15 years, I can say for certain that there are far too many variables to get every potential issue covered. If that wasn't the case we would not see too many software packages ever have to go past version 1.0.

Have a good day!

I could not have said it better @clintre, Thanks

Mike

I do see that it is by and large the nature of the beast. I think that my subconscious is telling me to indulge myself in a period of the aforementioned isolation so that I can do my own writing thing, which is the content building for which I have websites in the first place.
The add-ons are cool when they do work straight-away.
I am looking at the Natural Concrete theme, mostly because it has both the most reviews, and the most positive reviews. But it only has 10 of them, which makes me wonder if that is a viable sample size for what it purports to survey.
If the sun comes out tomorrow, I am riding my moto to Xichu, Guanajuato. That should make all the themes and add-ons seem much improved.
Thank you all for the help in understanding the process.
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Xichu was trim and freshly painted, an oddity so far outback but there, and well done, because of mining economy in the area. But for motorcycle riding one can just do the loop that shows up on Google Maps east of San Luis de la Paz, Guanajuato. The loop where Victoria is at the bottom, foto attached. Straightens your code right out.
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i dont really understand what you are talking about,
maybe you must say it straight forward

Yea I didn't get any of that.

Don't read into it too deeply. I had become afraid to buy anything because one of what I had bought turned into a long round-robin of checking and correcting mistakes wherein I found myself acting as personal assistant for the developer.
This is all from the perspective of a site "Editor" with no designer or developer in between me and the cms. Also, there is the shoe-string budget thing.
But as I said, it now just seems the nature of the task.
I hope that C5 catches up with itself and can stay caught up.
Still, if you haven't been on that moto ride, there will never be understanding.
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