[Phpwebsite-developers] phpWebSite 0.10.3

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

Are we going to do a 0.10.3 release and if so when?

If you're following the Changelog, there's been a lot of changes  
since 0.10.2, mostly added by myself getting as many patches that  
make sense or are easy enough to add from Sourceforge submissions.  
Thanks everyone for those.

I'd like to get one more change in so that Menu Manager has the same  
module/page allow system as Block Maker got  last week. Should get  
that in in the next few days. Also, phpwsBB needs a bit more work  
after the v1.0.4 beta I announced last week and adding that in to a  
0.10.3 release would seem like a good idea. That might take a while  
as I'd like to back port the BBCode parser from fallout into  
phpwebsite 0.10.3 and ditch the PEAR BBCode class, which has fallen  
way out of date and contains numerous bugs. If someone else would  
like to pick up that task, then all the better.

The wysiwyg javascript code could do with an update too. Browsers  
have progressed quite a bit since it was written and IE, Firefox,  
Safari (which was always the laggard) and Opera all have pretty good  
javascript and DOM now for better inline editing at the cursor  
instead of adding to the end of the textarea. Alongside BBCode  
revisions, it'd be a good update, particularly for the forum mod. I'm  
no Javascript wizz though.

Are there any other patches, bugs or RFEs that either need to go in  
or that would be great additions?

Wendall - phpwsRSSFeeds converting international characters to  
HTMLEntities/XML is a major one for me and currently the module won't  
install from a scratch 0.10.2 install because it's installed before  
Menuman in the install sequence. You have to Boost it afterwards.

Changelog -

http://res.stddev.appstate.edu/cvs/phpwebsite/docs/CHANGELOG.txt? 
rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

(Everything from 24 October 2005 on is for the next release)


Looking ahead, I'm presuming we'll have a 0.10.4 release, but more  
than likely, that will be more maintenance led as more and more devs  
move over to Fallout and modules get converted or replaced. I'm sure  
the two will coexist for some time until it's as painless a process  
as possible to upgrade.

Shaun
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