Seeing as yer 7 hours behind

27th Jan 2006 ¥åßßå

Once again I just thought I'd bring all y'all up to speed.

Now that we've started to publish posts, and ping to the world, I've disabled all skins and feeds except the am skin and the rss2 feed until I have a chance to hack the other skins to use our "just show non members first page" bits, and the other feeds to just show teasers.

When I get round to it, I'll do a default install that we can use to show off our skins without having to hack them all to do the "only show non-members first page" bits and other stuff. I'll also start coding in the logic for "special posts" that show off the features of any skin etc.

Talking of plugins (and skins), since the beta seems to be imminent (lol, where have I heard that before?), should we hold off on releasing any skins/plugins until it's released? Otherwise we need to code for 1.6 alpha and 1.# beta as these will be the public releases that people will be using.

If we decide to release and code for 1.6 alpha then we won't be able to release certain plugins, Dannys weather plugin and our code plugin are examples of ones who's minimum requirements are higher than 1.6 alpha.

Anyway, as always, let me know what all y'all think ;)

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Anonymous
27th Jan 2006
I don't see any good reason to waste more time supporting the alpha. Anyone crazy enough to be running it on their production site will jump on the beta as soon as it's out.
 
Anonymous
27th Jan 2006
I believe that Danny just called me crazy :|

But he's right about one thing. As soon as beta is out, ain't nobody going to be on Alpha any more.

I think that TODAY, if we release a plugin, it would be "nice" to have it on v1.6 (as that's the latest release that is, in a practical sense, available to the public. However, as I've been waiting for a very long time for the Beta release (especially since Blueyed says that Alpha doens't contain any fatal flaws ;) ), I'm left to wonder WHEN it will be released.

(Just like I'm left to wonder WHEN i'll get the search plugin and other articles completed ... :| )

I'm excited by what we have so far and what we're doing. It takes more time to put it together than i expected.
 
Anonymous
28th Jan 2006
Anyone crazy enough to be running it on their production site


Hmm, probably not the best time to tell you that I'm using it to run my multiblogs then?

If we're going to release for 1.6 then I think we need to launch the Update manager fairly fast as well, that way we can tell people when the beta version of a plugin comes out.

You have to remember Scott, most of our time (up to now) has been working out how to achieve the end results that we want, rss teasers, first page for non-members, preview seals, registration process etc, etc, and it's only recently that we've started to implement the logic. Things will progress far faster from here on in ;)

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Anonymous
29th Jan 2006
I didn't realize so many people were running the alpha. I'm game to keep working with it if that's what you want to do. Especially if the beta isn't going to show up anytime soon.
 
Anonymous
10th Feb 2006
b2evolution is weird. They say it's an alpha then say it's pretty good (and lets accept that all previous 'official' releases have had issues that needed fixing) but don't bother saying when a beta will be available or if a beta will actually be a better alpha. In fact to my tiny brain the beta looks like a rather strong departure from the alpha.

Waste of time to do anything with alpha anymore. Waste of time to do anything with the DotNine generation too. Blech and blah. Would be nice if we had some sort of timeline for beta's release, though my understanding tells me beta will be followed some day by the finally release. Which will of course be followed by the dot zero dot zero dot one version of the finally that will patch holes we've all waited patiently to experience.

Why do I suspect deep in the bowels of my mind that b2evo is looking for a way to have a release version that matches the other popular descendent of b2?

Lord I should get busy. I am running "1.6 plus not enough to be CVS" on two domains, though they're not the same versions. Speaking of blech...
 
Anonymous
10th Feb 2006
From a code point of view there really are huge differences between alpha and "beta". There was a notice on the dev list a few months ago saying that they were going to be packaging the beta up by the end of the week ...... I guess the french must work 67 day weeks :|

I hear yah @ waste of time. Your flightlog plugin is a prime example, I'd got so far and then they went and renamed all the bloody functions and variables, and hinted that they'd be doing it again. So that got put on hold until they actually stabalise their code base. I'm assuming you're still wanting to play with that? If so I'll get back on it with the beta.

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