Short story: first of all, I'm here because Nao invited me to join.
Long story:
Many, many years ago, I was semi-active in the SMF community and released a theme for SMF 1.0 (yes, one point zero :) ) Later, I became occupied with other open source projects and basically stopped doing stuff for SMF, but my own forum was always running with SMF - many years with 1.0.x and I never bothered upgrading to 1.1, mainly because I had no time and 1.0 was working fine. When 2.0 became apparent, I decided to port the SMF AQUA theme I'd released years before for 1.0 but quickly lost interest after seeing all the bad things happening over at the SMF community. At this time, SMF's future didn't exactly look bright, so I stopped my work on the theme - nobody really wants to invest lots of time into a project threatened by extinction :)
About a year and a half later...
About 2 weeks ago, I started to play around with the 2.0 code base, realizing that it's now BSD licensed and there is no longer the risk of a dying project. Code is out, open sourced and this will never change, so it's safe to use it as a base.
I started with some work on the curve theme which I plan to rewrite completely, aiming for modern browsers (= HTML 5, jQuery, CSS3, IE8 minimum) adding a few Ajax features and a couple of relatively minor features.
Right now, I cannot exactly say which direction it will take. For the first part, it will stay closer to the SMF code base than Wedge, simply because I fear I don't have enough time for major changes in the core. Maybe later...
I plan to concentrate mostly on the end-user experience and adding a few (small) features of which I believe should be part of the core.
For the curios: Forum is here and it always runs on the current code, so it may change and break on a daily base and sometimes it may not even work at all. Since the forum is not very active (most of the old support boards for my other open source project(s) are now read only for quite some time and only there for reference), I can break it whenever I want :)
So yes, this is another project that qualifies as a SMF fork and it was only a couple of days ago, when I became aware of Wedge after Nao joined my site. We quickly figured that neither myself nor him knew about each other's project and I was a bit surprised for how long yours already exists.
Long story:
Many, many years ago, I was semi-active in the SMF community and released a theme for SMF 1.0 (yes, one point zero :) ) Later, I became occupied with other open source projects and basically stopped doing stuff for SMF, but my own forum was always running with SMF - many years with 1.0.x and I never bothered upgrading to 1.1, mainly because I had no time and 1.0 was working fine. When 2.0 became apparent, I decided to port the SMF AQUA theme I'd released years before for 1.0 but quickly lost interest after seeing all the bad things happening over at the SMF community. At this time, SMF's future didn't exactly look bright, so I stopped my work on the theme - nobody really wants to invest lots of time into a project threatened by extinction :)
About a year and a half later...
About 2 weeks ago, I started to play around with the 2.0 code base, realizing that it's now BSD licensed and there is no longer the risk of a dying project. Code is out, open sourced and this will never change, so it's safe to use it as a base.
I started with some work on the curve theme which I plan to rewrite completely, aiming for modern browsers (= HTML 5, jQuery, CSS3, IE8 minimum) adding a few Ajax features and a couple of relatively minor features.
Right now, I cannot exactly say which direction it will take. For the first part, it will stay closer to the SMF code base than Wedge, simply because I fear I don't have enough time for major changes in the core. Maybe later...
I plan to concentrate mostly on the end-user experience and adding a few (small) features of which I believe should be part of the core.
For the curios: Forum is here and it always runs on the current code, so it may change and break on a daily base and sometimes it may not even work at all. Since the forum is not very active (most of the old support boards for my other open source project(s) are now read only for quite some time and only there for reference), I can break it whenever I want :)
So yes, this is another project that qualifies as a SMF fork and it was only a couple of days ago, when I became aware of Wedge after Nao joined my site. We quickly figured that neither myself nor him knew about each other's project and I was a bit surprised for how long yours already exists.
