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Off-topic / Post count fever
« on September 12th, 2010, 04:18 PM »
Congrats on reaching 500 posts, Pete!
Next stop: 500 more posts... in a day :P
I'm sure you can do it when we go public :lol:
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Features / New revs
« on September 2nd, 2010, 02:57 PM »
Note to the Wedge audience!

What is this topic about?

It's our official changelog. Every time we commit something to the central SVN server (which retains the master copy of Wedge), we document our changes, and then we post them here.
Pete uses the SVN format to post his changelogs here, while I've been using a slightly different format (eventually adding extra line breaks to improve readability of the whole damn thing.)

As you can see below, this topic started at revision 23, so it's missing about a week's worth of changes, maybe we'll report them later.

There's already a feature list. What's the point of this topic?

The point is that we're being open about what we're currently working on. Not many people do that. They tend to keep you updated once in a blue moon. Our goal has always been to make this topic public, at least after the first alpha release. We're just making that happen a bit earlier.
We're also being honest about our blunders. Perhaps because there aren't a lot of them, eh eh. And honest about the time it sometimes takes us to implement something. Writing a new feature is not as easy as "one two three done". Sometimes you'll just give up on it for some time, come back to it, etc. I think it's an interesting way of going through our numerous changes to the original SMF codebase.
And of course, the feature list is a good thing, and pretty complete as it is, but it doesn't get updated too often.

Another point is that SMF users can finally get to know about SMF quirks we've been fixing. The feature list has an obscure entry about 'SMF bugs' being fixed. I didn't want to reveal what they were. After some consideration, I decided that they 'might as well be told'. So, if anyone has the courage to dig through the complete changelog and compile a list of SMF bugs we fixed (I always try to indicate 'smf bug' or a similar mention in the changelog when I fix one), feel free to transmit it to SMF. We personally don't give a damn about them.

So, do I need to read it?

No. Only if you're a hardcore fan. In which case you probably already had access to it before. I'd recommend you read through the changelog after rev ~750 though. That is, when I compiled the feature list. Anything done after is not in the feature list. I'll update it of course, eventually.

The topic is locked, how do I comment it?

It is locked to help with readability. We don't want to bury the changelogs in the middle of pages and pages of off-topic discussions.
There's already a private comment topic, but it's private and WILL remain so.
The official comment topic is here:
http://wedge.org/pub/feats/6803/new-revs-public-comments/
But you can create new topics or whatever you'd like.

Back to the original post!



Hmm, I don't know if it'll work, but I'll try to make a specific thread where we can post our latest rev logs, and maybe discuss them. We're already doing that in the To-do topic, but there's a long post I have to answer over there, and I don't want to forget it :P
Anyway, this is to give more visibility for our cheerleaders, who currently have no way to test the code themselves (or see it in action anywhere.)

rev 23
* Updating to SMF rev 10072 (fixes to strlen and board/topic optimizations) (changelog.txt, ManageSettings.php, News.php, Post.php, Search.php, SearchAPI-Custom.php, SearchAPI-Fulltext.php, Subs-Auth.php, Subs.php)
! Small @ hack in ManageSmileys to avoid errors when the smiley list is empty (wrong folder, etc.) (ManageSmileys.php)

--> Yeah, I ended up committing that one... Sorry, it was too tempting :lol: