Kentico Plants a Tree for Every Bug Found by Their Clients

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Nashua, New Hampshire, USA – Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, announced the re-launch of their Trees for Bugs initiative. Company employees will plant a tree for every software bug reported in each latest version of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET.  The company also promises to fix all reported bugs within 7 days.

Trees for bugs logo”I’m proud to say that although our product gets more complex, we are constantly eliminating the number of bugs in new versions. We have also been successful to keep our promise and comply with the 7 days bug fixing policy since its announcement back in 2009.” said Martin Hejtmanek, CTO at Kentico Software. “Our efforts became an indivisible part of Kentico's commitment to deliver a stable platform for managing websites, on-line stores and social networks.”

“Kentico has always been committed to provide high-quality user experience to our customers and partners. While we test our software extensively, it’s important to make sure that we encourage our customers to report any bugs they find. Based on the feedback on our initial program, which was only related to the 4.1 version of Kentico CMS, we decided to keep it for all upcoming CMS versions, starting with the current 5.5 R2 release,” said Petr Passinger, PR Manager at Kentico Software. “From now on, we will plant a tree for every bug found in each latest version of Kentico CMS.“

The Trees for Bugs initiative is well explained in the following one and half minute animated video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdMb5swSB2I

YouTube - Trees for bugs in plain English

The current number of bugs, and therefore the number of trees that will be planted, can be seen at the re-designed Trees for Bugs website: http://trees.kentico.com.
 
The homepage of the Trees for Bugs website shows a graph that represents distribution of bugs/trees between individual development teams. With almost 6,000 active customers in 84 countries, the website provides country standings in the “Bug-Finding” discipline.

Each planted tree is dedicated to the person who reported the bug and labeled with their name. The tree is also listed in the tree gallery and its location is marked on a map.

Kentico Sotware Plants Trees for Bugs Found by Clients

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Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, November 30, 2009 – Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, kept its promise to plant a tree for every bug found in the latest version of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET as well as to fix all reported bugs within 7 days.

Three months earlier, Kentico Software promised to plant a tree for every bug in Kentico CMS 4.1 reported by their clients and to fix all such bugs within 7 business days. Although clients reported only 60 bugs in the product, company employees and management planted almost 100 of them. The tree species and the place for planting them were chosen by the Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation (NGO). Each tree was tagged with a label showing the name of the client who reported the bug.

Every tree was pictured together with the ones who planted it and all these pictures are now available in the Tree Gallery at http://trees.kentico.com. If the clients want to visit their tree, they can find its exact position in the “Trees for Bugs Map": http://trees.kentico.com/treesmap.aspx

Kentico Software Plants a Tree for Every Bug

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Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, August 28, 2009 – Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, today announced it will plant a tree for every bug found in the latest version of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. The company also promises to fix all reported bugs within 7 days.

Kentico Software will plant a tree for every bug in Kentico CMS 4.1 reported by clients and it also promises to fix all such bugs within 7 business days. It's a part of Kentico commitment to deliver a stable platform for managing web sites, on-line stores and social networks.

The clients can report bugs through the form at http://trees.kentico.com where they can also see the current number of reported bugs. The trees will be planted by company employees and management after the end of this initiative in November 2009. Each tree will be devoted to the person who reported the bug first.

"We are very confident about the quality of our Web Content Management platform. Although we can hardly eliminate all bugs, our goal is to minimize their number and fix them within 7 business days, so that we can provide a stable and reliable solution to our clients" explains Petr Palas, Kentico CEO. "We want to encourage our clients to report all bugs they encounter. And we decided to give back something that everyone on the planet will benefit from - new trees," he adds.