I don’t know if you guys have checked out VW.com lately, but I did last night, and I’m thoroughly impressed. Anywhere you go on the site, you will find an equally immersive environment full of smooth animation, and rarely a seam anywhere. This site is the kind of quality we should strive for.

Check it out! Unusual use of technology.
Need to ask Buddy if we can get one…

The Flex Bug and Issue Management System is now available publicly for the Flash community. Adobe has opened the doors on the internal development efforts and provided a powerful tool for direct feedback from developers. Permission is granted to all users not only browse reports, but create new ones. Equally important, Adobe engineers use this same tracking system and all issues are reviewed and maintained by QA on a daily basis.

Since so many issues and feature requests are reported, the Jira tracking system provides a clever way to rank issue importance. Developers who find a particular issue of high importance, can vote for that issue. More votes equals higher priority. QA has done a nice job of tagging those issues that need more votes to be implemented.

I can think of no more proactive way to mold a product release than by participating here. It’s a good idea to check on issues regularly and vote for what best helps you develop better applications. If you don’t find what you need, submit a new issue. If you don’t like how Flex 3 turns out, you should have seen it coming…