Wedge

Ehm.. no?
Why (the hell) should we base Wedge on PhpBB? :P

Sure you're not meaning IceWeasel being a Firefox fork?

It's not just a minor change to SMF's code, it's MASSIVE change. No SMF mod will work now, not one mod can work without alterations, for example.Oldiesmann has contributed to SVN, mostly PostgreSQL fixes.I don't think it can. 2.0 is at least a month away. Then comes the long haul to decide what's in 2.1 and then to actually build it. Unless it's something relatively small, we're going to be talking about 6+ months before betas, so we're probably looking at a spring 2012 release for 2.1, which won't even be that exciting a release.

I think he means icypheonix which is indeed a fork of phpbb.

How odd, I never knew anyone actually forked it before...

I hadn't heard about it either until a few days ago.

yes right here http://icyphoenix.com a very good example of phpbb fork.

Yeah, something like that.

Only like that from a twisted point of view. These features, they're more like a compilation of already available mods (they're all GPL so I guess he can do it...), packed under an ugly theme.

Wedge doesn't use any pre-existing mods, because they're not available under a forkable license for the most part.
The only mods we took from the SMF community are the mods we wrote ourselves -- drafts, footnotes, media area, things like that. (Oh, and Pretty URLs, which has a forkable license, but I had a hand in writing it anyway.)

Also, we have our own theme, and it looks great. (Better than Wedge.org, at the very least. Which is probably why I insist so much on the fact that Wedge.org is not currently running Wedge :P)

I wasn't referring to the details, only the generalities; it is much the same idea, only done much better as you've said.

Even though I wrote a drafts mod for SMF, I actually gutted and rewrote it from scratch for Wedge to solve several of the bugs in the original, and make it more awesome in the process.

:P
Would be nice to have a sneak preview of the Wedge theme...........just so we can work on our logos   :thanks:

Hmm... We could do screenshots.

But I'm currently documenting all of the new features (I took a short break to fix and improve the user menu in topic pages -- now it's looking great!), and once I'm done with it, I'll be splitting the list into several topics, and one of them will be about the new theme -- so yeah, I guess I'll publish screenshots of it in that topic.

:yahoo: :yahoo:

 :cool:

I guess I should introduce myself too....

My name really is Pete.  Really.    :ph34r:

I'm a long time SMF user and a paid AeMe user, which is how I found out about Wedge.  Once I saw mod development and discussion for SMF dying down, I knew something must have happened, and I set out to figure out what was going on. I've read the sorry, sordid tale, from Jeff Lewis' blog post all the way down, and I was discouraged and disheartened.  Then when I saw on Noisen the "Fork You" thread, I was intrigued, and so here I am.

I know just enough programming to be dangerous, but I won't ask stupid questions.  I'll probably mostly just sit in the background and read with anticipation the day that I will once again be able to use an innovative community software.

Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself and say "Thank You" for breathing new life into a stagnant forum software.

That's the spirit :)

Can't you find another name though? Our lead visionary is called Pete too :P