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Additional 5.0 Thoughts

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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A bit premature, but wanted to start thinking about v5.0 – can you tell andy and I are anxious to get to some fun coding!

I think templating should be first and foremost…  Its going to take a lot of planning and discussion before jumping off to code…  I also initially think it should generally be led by one person…  whoever that is, should get full command of the front end – no other changes…  I think its going to require a lot of restructuring too…  we will need a series of files that basically just accept template tag calls and display items so think the file structure may look different…  as a side note, for these functions, we should switch to passing an array argument like wp does and extract on our end…  save us the issue of long arg list and ever changing arg list..

anyways… while one of us is tolling in the forum front end implementing templating, the other one could be off doing admin improvements as we have a few of those… all of the stats stuff we want to add come to mind… of course, the second person is avialable for discussions on the templating stuff and even for coding assignments to help out if requested or needed…

also, ‘when’ we are successful with templating, we are going to have to think about a few different themse we can supply..  we also might line up a few themers to work with a very early alpha build of templating for feedback and trying to do a theme…

thoughts?

 

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RA -Radio-
-Radio-
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– Adding SPF activity into BuddyPress Activity Stream-

  • UserA added UserB to their SPF friends list, 20 minutes ago.
  • Bob added a new forum post on the topic ‘XY and Z Issues’, 45 minutes ago.
  • Admin updated his profile in SPF, 1 hour 20 minutes ago.

I’m currently researching how to add SPF posting activities into the buddpress stream, but I code with a brick.

Also, If you had your own ‘Activity Tracking’ that would be one of three things that keeps SPF from completely replacing BuddyPress, the other two would be.

– User Status Updates –

– MU sub-blog updates – (comming up… wp 3.0 sub-blogs )

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

Radio, as of spf v4.3, you will have to use WP 3.0…  I already have wp 3.0 multisite and spf 4.3 playing good – of course, limited to what I can test…

I think a major focus of 5.1 will be buddypress integration…  a lot on the 5.0 plate already… of course, if templating and plugins go extra smoothly, might be able to pull some up, but wouldnt bank on that…  we are going to need a month or two of just playing with buddypress to even understand what it is and does…

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

Re Post 1: I think you are basically correct in the premise that it will probably have to be one person converting all of the display functions. I also tend to agree on the use of arrays as argument.

I am about to make my first proposals on templating so we can see bow this fits…