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Plugins / Re: Mods - no not *that* question!
« on May 3rd, 2011, 01:55 PM »
"I should note that I was able to keep on top of the mod queue by myself when in the Cust. team on SMF (back in autumn 2009, mod authors were getting feedback the same day as submission!) so it's not like that's too much of a problem."
Maybe that answers the question. I had assumed it was some huge burden, based on reading things like "Right now we have about 40+ mods in the queue. It's taking us a while to catch up on the queue so bare with us." from their lead customiser, but maybe that's not the process's fault but just part of SMF's inertia.
On your second point, I'd be in favour of better vetting. If I were a mod writer it would be better to know all obvious bugs have been fixed before releasing it to the public. And as a mod user I would certainly prefer mods to be of good quality. But as you say that's a conversation for later :)
Maybe that answers the question. I had assumed it was some huge burden, based on reading things like "Right now we have about 40+ mods in the queue. It's taking us a while to catch up on the queue so bare with us." from their lead customiser, but maybe that's not the process's fault but just part of SMF's inertia.
On your second point, I'd be in favour of better vetting. If I were a mod writer it would be better to know all obvious bugs have been fixed before releasing it to the public. And as a mod user I would certainly prefer mods to be of good quality. But as you say that's a conversation for later :)
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Plugins / Mods - no not *that* question!
« on May 3rd, 2011, 12:37 PM »
Excuse me if this is a dumb question :^^;:
In SMF there's a process for getting mods approved and as a non-mod writer this seems to involve various SMF bods and much to-ing and fro-ing before the mod is approved.
My question is whether Wedge will also have this approval process, and if so will you have the time straight after you've just gone live? Because given that SMF mods won't work on Wedge there will (hopefully) be many mod writers converting their mods. So not only will you have the installation questions / problems and the usual v1.0 of anything questions / problems, there will (hopefully) be this queue of mods to be approved.
In SMF there's a process for getting mods approved and as a non-mod writer this seems to involve various SMF bods and much to-ing and fro-ing before the mod is approved.
My question is whether Wedge will also have this approval process, and if so will you have the time straight after you've just gone live? Because given that SMF mods won't work on Wedge there will (hopefully) be many mod writers converting their mods. So not only will you have the installation questions / problems and the usual v1.0 of anything questions / problems, there will (hopefully) be this queue of mods to be approved.
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The Pub / Re: A question......
« on April 26th, 2011, 05:54 PM »We're gonna get new kinds of support questions, don't worry...
"I don't get it, I'm trying to paste my regular custom CSS into your index.css, but it keeps giving me errors!"
::)
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The Pub / Re: did not find this in FaQ
« on April 25th, 2011, 03:37 PM »
Ah yes of course - I'd been wondering whether to switch to SMF2 when it's released, or wait a bit longer for Wedge. But the answer is 'both' :)
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Off-topic / Re: Introduction
« on April 24th, 2011, 10:54 AM »
Thanks for the welcome MultiformeIngegno :)
Yes you're right Nao size is not the most important factor - the company I worked for last had 4 developers when I started but it quickly became the best software in its market due to good programming, consultants (knowing what the customers want), testing, support and marketing.
One side of me hopes that after the legals are sorted the SMF team will put everything behind them and come together to push SMF forward again. Only time will tell.
Yes you're right Nao size is not the most important factor - the company I worked for last had 4 developers when I started but it quickly became the best software in its market due to good programming, consultants (knowing what the customers want), testing, support and marketing.
One side of me hopes that after the legals are sorted the SMF team will put everything behind them and come together to push SMF forward again. Only time will tell.
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Off-topic / Re: Introduction
« on April 23rd, 2011, 10:00 PM »
Hi I'm Frazer. I'm an admin on a motorbike club which was set up on ezboard and now runs Yuku. 6-7 years ago I started work to move to a self-hosted solution and decided on SMF 2, assuming it would be just round the corner. My reputation has taken a battering over the years as news of our messageboard's move has been raised and postponed over and over.
Seeing as we are not live on SMF I don't post much on their forum but have been a member for all those years. I sometimes contribute to their support forum when I have time which helps me learn SMF.
I used to work for a software company testing all its new features and supporting its users. Eight years ago I quit and became a nurse - now I clean up other people's shit literally ^_^ The only difference is people say "thank you" to nurses but never to IT folk :)
I'm very interested in this fork as I cannot see SMF going anywhere, its progress is much too slow, its team too small and divided. I look forward to helping out where I can e.g. with testing :)
Seeing as we are not live on SMF I don't post much on their forum but have been a member for all those years. I sometimes contribute to their support forum when I have time which helps me learn SMF.
I used to work for a software company testing all its new features and supporting its users. Eight years ago I quit and became a nurse - now I clean up other people's shit literally ^_^ The only difference is people say "thank you" to nurses but never to IT folk :)
I'm very interested in this fork as I cannot see SMF going anywhere, its progress is much too slow, its team too small and divided. I look forward to helping out where I can e.g. with testing :)
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The Pub / Re: A question......
« on April 23rd, 2011, 09:40 PM »
Buried in a Chit Chat thread is this: http://www.simplemachines.org/...c=430288.msg3024130#msg3024130
"It's likely to be VERY soon, now.
As in "Days", if that."
"It's likely to be VERY soon, now.
As in "Days", if that."