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4.1 Recap and Status

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

Thought I'd go through what we seem to have left intact of the remaining 4.1 stuff after the major prune. Starting with what is currently assigned to me.

Andy's List:

  1. Profile Overhaul and associated tasks
  2. Post Quoting clean-up
  3. Breakup of sfmembers build in install
  4. ID Checking on Database calls
  5. Javascript clean-up (plus jQuery)
  6. PM Thread duplication
  7. Timezone support for users
  8. Table Prefix define
  9. Housekeeping Routines

Steve's List:

  1. sfmembers table – review
  2. Forum Lock cleanup
  3. Forum Link template tag

We also have 26 items unassigned and a small handful of items that have been punted to 4.2 that I am sure we would both like to see bought back.

So…. do you fancy making any trades? Anything on my list you fancy? I am obviously not going to get through it all at this stage. How about profile? I think I either need to concentrate on that now and perhaps ditch the rest or if you fancy that I could take on everything else.

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

I think you should concentrate on the profile stuff…  we have been promoting it and quite frankly, its needed…

I would say move #2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 back into the confirmed list but leave them on 4.1 for now…  I am not even sure what some of them are trying to address…

go ahead and move #3 over to me – wouldnt hurt for me to learn how the install js works anyways…

That does leave us with more than we will get done for 4.1, especially if we go to beta at beginning of July.

I will obviously finish my tickets (4 if you count the move above) before the end of the month and will grab others one at a time and knock them out.  You may finish the profile earlier than thinking too.

So, lets leave our curren 4.1 list (after the above changes) open for 4.1 until we get closer to the end of the month and then punt some more to 4.2…

Once we start beta, we wont want any major changes, but we can likely knock out a few more.

One thing is for sure, given 4.0.3, we need to go back in wp versons and test some stuff with 4.1.  We should also think about advertising the beta program.  We got almost nothing from beta testers (one bug I think) from the 4.0.3 beta period and it was almost 2 months long.  We need to get more folks involved and using it.   I think just having 4.1 beta live on our site will cause that to happen.  Maybe create the beta testers forum as a subforum to give it visibility and draw in folks to want to try it. 

We need to figure out what's going on with Mike's set up and why he is having issues.  It might be a set up problem on his end, but it might not be.  We need to resolve one way or another…  I plan to spend some time on that this weekend..

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

2, 4 and 5 on my list are actually pretty critical or at least very important to get addressed.

Good luck with 3! If it's any help my plan was to move the members build to the bottom (last task), break it up into small bytes – maybe 250 member records at a time, maybe more – and use the progressbar so there is a visual clue on the users view – sadly missing at the moment.

Not even on the list is dealing with the recipients in PM's and the new options we discussed for PM.s In fact, I wil lraise tickets on those.

[PS: I wasn't trying to offload profile by the way. I actually thought you might fancy taking it on]

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

actually, I had been thinking to leave it in the same spot, and do in increments 250, 500 something like that…  was hoping to output a message in increments, something like

Step X.1 – Adding Members (users 1 – 500)

Step X.2 – Adding Members (users 501 – 1000)

etc, etc

dont know if thats possible or not since I havent ever looked at the install js sequencing.

So my plan, unless you suggest different path knowing more about the process, I will proceed with my plan.  then, time permitting, can see about switching to the jquery progress bar…