XOOPS: The light at the end...

Posted by: skalpaOn 2005/9/27 16:40:00 35778 reads
Precisely, here are the main things to be visible soon. 1) About our organization The first thing I made while returning at the end of August was to try to give birth to a real development team, whereas XOOPS until today was always the work of one or some individuals, but who did not form really what I call a team. Until today, we use a private mailing-list to work, but this one will become public in a few weeks. By then, a new site dedicated to the dev team will be built (in fact, a first version of this site should be put online very soon): developers' blogs, documents... all that relates to the development of XOOPS will be visible, explained, and documented. Each one will be able to see what is happening, what will happen, and will be able to intervene. The developers also will take care that the efforts of other teams members are synchronized with theirs: QA, documentation, local support sites... as many entities which act in a completely independent way, but which will have to get closer to each others as much as possible, in order to make sure they work in a parallelly, helping each others. 2) About XOOPS 2.2 The development and the release of XOOPS 2.2 didn not happen as expected, but these last months will not have been lost. Whatever happens, we will ensure during the forthcoming weeks that all that just occurred will be rich of lessons: to face such probleme is the best thing one can hope to allow him to exceed oneself. The way new features were added, the way versions of different types were published and the lack of communication around those, the lack of documentation which would have made it possible to more people to understand and to contribute to the development... many things were learned to avoid reproducing some mistakes. XOOPS 2.2.3RC2 will be soon available publicly. This version was developed from 2.2.2 in order to remove the bugs appeared in the RC1, which was released in a precipitated way. It will correct a significant number of bugs, and should remove the majority of the error error notifces concerning the use of references when used with PHP 4.4 and PHP 5.1 (however this last modification required several tens of corrections, references being used with excessively and inappropriately in all the core, which explains why we are still testing it before a public release). Then, once 2.2.3 is published, new updates of this branch will regularly be published, after still existing problems are reported to us. Lastly, in order to answer waitings of certain people having performed an unfortunate update of their site, a script making it possible to transform an installation of XOOPS 2.2.x into XOOPS 2.0.13 will be also available as Release Candidate in a few days.