[geeklog-devel] The road ahead - post 1.5.0

[Blaine Lang]

Since this next couple months have the core dev's pretty busy with SOC, 
I agree that we can't take on too much net new and therefore, your idea 
of focusing on bugs that don't require any major code changes makes sense.

We also should open up the floor to new ideas for post 1.5.1 (assuming 
thats a minor release).

Last years SOC GL config manager was focused on moving the GL config to 
be table driven and our initial online config manager needs to be 
improved as it was not the focus of the initial project. While the 
online config manager is usable it's not as intuitive as it needs to be. 
We had hoped to make that a SOC project for this year but we did not 
have enough mentors and suitable students that wanted that project.

Additionally items that I would like to raise for post 1.5 are:
- SESSIONS support
- Improved Core filtering class to better handle filtering hostile data, 
html filtering, censoring and handling the various modes program need:
   > Filtering for re-presentation to application
   > Filtering for DB insert/update
   > Filering for AJAX server-side use which can include DB + formated 
Web presentation
- Fresh new theme/look ( I believe we had a nice offer a few months ago 
and hope offer is still available)
- Review CTL for inclusion,  as Vinny noted and has my vote as well
- I also would like to see us decide that PHP5 and possibly MySQL 4+ are 
the minimal requirements and evolve our code to use a more PHP5 OO design.
- Agree that javascript is here to stay :) and start to actively use 
AJAX in our Admin and User core components.
- Expect that we will need time to refine and fully implement the SOC 
project code

Blaine


Vincent Furia wrote:
> I also think we need to include the template caching upgrade into 
> 1.5.1. <http://1.5.1.>  It's finished.  It has proven itself on 
> several websites, and will not require a lot of work on our part.  In 
> fact, we could release a story (maybe ask Joe to do it), advising 
> plugin authors that it is coming in the next x months and they should 
> start to prepare their plugins now.
>
> -Vinny
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de 
> <mailto:dirk at haun-online.de>> wrote:
>
>     Looking at the first bug reports that came in for 1.5.0, it's time to
>     think about how we go from here. Here are my suggestions:
>
>     I think for Geeklog 1.5.1 we should concentrate on fixing all those
>     rough edges that we left in while rushing to push out 1.5.0.
>     <http://1.5.0.> The
>     addition of new features should be kept to a minimum.
>
>     Something like <http://project.geeklog.net/tracking/view.php?id=653>
>     should be part of 1.5.1. <http://1.5.1.> It's a lot of work with
>     little immediate gain,
>     but will make using Geeklog smoother and less of a hassle in
>     places. If
>     you look at the list of open bugs, there are quite a few that fall
>     into
>     this category. With the introduction of OpenID support, the various
>     minor issues with Remote User accounts will also become more
>     obvious and
>     need to be cleaned up.
>
>
>     In parallel, we should work on a strictly bugfixes-only release,
>     Geeklog
>     1.5.0-1, and make sure that it can be installed with a minimum of
>     hassle. I.e., no changes in the database, the themes, or the language
>     files unless we absolutely have to.
>
>
>     Timeframe:
>
>     Geeklog 1.5.0-1: Second half of July,
>     Geeklog 1.5.1: Somewhere near the end of the Summer of Code, e.g.
>     early
>     to mid September.
>
>     After that, a version integrating the results from the Summer of Code
>     (and possibly other new features) could be released by the end of
>     this /
>     beginning of next year.
>
>     Comments?
>
>     bye, Dirk
>
>
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