[pLog-general] Your thoughts on 1.1

[Oscar Renalias]

Hello,

just wanted to know your opinion about 1.1.

I was thinking that the development cycle for 1.0 was way too long and
exhausting and that the amount of changes was too big (the amount of
bugs has proven to be proportional to the amount of changes
introduced) That's probably one of the reasons why we have had so many
support requests in the forums so my idea is to shorten the
development cycle, even if that means bothering users with upgrades to
their installations every 2-3 months.

Ben has already started to work on improving the performance in 1.1
and the results are more than promising even though work on that front
will continue. Although I never thought that pLog is slow when using
the right setup, any performance improvement is good :-) Believe me,
these changes are so promising that they are enough to warrant a new
release.

Since users only care about new features, we can take Ben's
improvements, throw in some smaller candy features for users to be
happy and we have a 1.1 release.These are some of the smallish
features that I have in mind:

- new screens to see all trackbacks and comments.

- everything searchable in the admin backend, so that we can search
categories, users or even links (useful when we've got a lot of pages
full of these items)

- possibilty to upload new files through the pop-up window that allows
to insert resources to posts in the "new post" page.

- integration of the anti-spam filter with trackbacks.

Other big features such as 'friends list', moblogging or integration
with other tools such as phpbb, vbulletin or mambo will have to wait.
Basically because of the reasons described above, because I don't feel
so motivated anymore and because it's time to allow new people to join
the team and bring new energy. So if anybody wants to take these
challenges and work on them, be my guest. If not, then we'll have to
wait.

Any comments?

Oscar