My God! This confirms my fear of CB and related products!

A customer, mathorn, encountered this bug regarding "Resend Confirmation" function.

I too managed to replicate the problem.

What shocked me was that mathorn was a paying member at Joomlapolis. He was so turned off by krileon's reply that he simply uninstalled the component.

The poor guy paid for nothing!

The bug is like this. When a user is NOT ENABLED and NOT CONFIRMED, such a user can be resent a confirmation email.

What mathorn likely did was use CB to do two things to the user concerned:
- Make the user "NOT ENABLED" (via "Block User: Yes")
- Make the user "NOT CONFIRMED" (via "Confirm User: No")

And then mathorn tried to "Resend Confirmation" to said user. The message was simply "Sent confirmation emails to 0 users". Didn't work.

The bug is that CB's "Block User: Yes" does not correctly "Un-Enable" the user.

I'm so surprised at krileon's nonchalant reply, and even more shocked at his inability to spot this bug from mathorn's description of the symptoms.

Indeed, much of CB's codes is scary to say the least. Spaghetti code, bad organization, etc. It's clear the codes are done by people like krileon and his team, from how they managed to let slip bugs in very uncanny "oh huh?" ways. Makes me cringe too much to even eek out a "duh".

I don't know what is happening with the CB team. But I do know that I can fix every bug I've seen on these forums so far. If anyone here is keen to get the bugfixes for free, let me know! Don't give up on CB! It's substantial work, even if it may have been inefficient work (might have cost CB team more time than necessary to develop).

I don't really know if I wanna give my bugfixes to CB, given that they charge even for documentation (and then go on to claim they are for open-source).

But I truly am for open-source. I don't wanna piss off paying customers by giving away bugfixes for free to non-paying customers. On the other hand, I don't want to piss off non-paying customers by sending bugfixes to CB team and having them potentially re-sell those fixes that should have been free.

Will CB ever become non-open-source? If I contribute to the documentation, will other users have to pay for my contributions? Pertinent questions that I voiced out on my day ONE with CB (just couple of months ago). But I was shot down politely. Is the CB Team constrained by some bigger corporation? Is there something going on that I'm not aware of?

mathorn, if you're reading this, I implore you to give CB another chance. Yes, it has tons of bugs. No, it doesn't take me more than 2 weeks to fix them all (whatever I see on the forums). If you get enough people willing to help me maintain my changelogs, and, more importantly, to ensure that I won't have to pay CB Team for my OWN contributions in future, let me know! I'm all for open-source. But please let me know if I'll be breaking some legal terms set by some big corporation.

The very sad thread, where mathorn was turned away stone cold, is here:

www.joomlapolis.com/forum/154-advanced-members-support/176994-re-resend-confirmation-email-not-working