[geeklog-devel] [Fwd: Geeklog]

[Blaine Lang]

It will be interesting to see what features they need to add. We should
probally brainstorm about 1.4 features.

Regarding 1.3.9. I have a little bit left to do on the new block admin code
that will also us to move blocks up/down and left/right from the block
listing.

Blaine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] [Fwd: Geeklog]


> Tony wrote:
>
> >Guys, check this message.  The long and short of it is they will be able
> >to give us a couple of resources to help with Geeklog.
>
> Cool.
>
>
> >Dirk, naturally you are still the man
> >with 1.3.x so if you have a wish list for the next GL release we should
> >dust it off and be ready to assign tasks.
>
> Well, 1.3.9 is more or less feature-complete. It needs some work on
> filtering SQL injection attempts and lots and lots of testing. Also, a
> good look through the list of open bugs can't hurt.
>
> I doubt that they can help with these, so we'll have to look for work to
> be done after the 1.3.9 release.
>
>
> I've outlined 3 tasks here, which are also pretty much self-contained:
>
> <http://lists.geeklog.net/pipermail/geeklog-devtalk/2003-September/
> 000299.html>
>
> #1 (cleaning up the upload class) would improve maintainability (and
> troubleshooting) a lot.
>
> #2 (parsing RSS and future feed formats) will also help with
> maintainability and extensibility (in case the Atom format catches on, we
> will need a parser for it and integrating it into the current code could
> become, erm, interesting ...).
>
> #3 (Daily Digest) - it seems that the Daily Digest feature is quite
> popular but it eats a lot of CPU time and runs into timeouts in hosted
> environments pretty quickly. The task is to look for alternatives and/or
> improve the current solution.
>
> I have some more that I would need to flesh out. And there's always
> <http://www.geeklog.net/article.php?story=20030803155454822> in case they
> want to pick their own tasks.
>
>
> The question is, however, how much of that workforce do we want to direct
> at 1.3.x and wouldn't it be better to get them to help on GL2? On the
> other hand, they probably have the same problem that lets me spend so
> much time on 1.3 - we have sites running and need this and that feature
> NOW and not at some (possibly far-away) point in the future ...
>
> bye, Dirk
>
>
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