[Phpwiki-talk] 1.3.3; and towards 1.4

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

About two or three weeks ago I asked if we were ready for a new release 
on the 1.3 branch; Jeff, you said you and Carsten were busy with a 
serious refactoring. If that's settled down for now I'd like to put out 
1.3.3 before the week is out.

While I had goals for 1.4, the coders on the project had plenty of 
itches to scratch, and by letting them scratch away we've acheived a lot 
of new features, many never listed in the Task List. I have been very 
happy with this. You folks have done a really amazing job.


We should probably nail down that which needs finishing before we do a 
1.4 release (as started on 
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/Release1.4), and I'm sorry to say 
the first thing that comes to my mind is user authentication. I feel 
like Frodo climbing towards Cirith Ungol.

I think I'd like to tackle the flat file database, since I haven't 
written any code for the project since... since I can't remember when! 
But this needs doing. For some people it's the only way.

If the new parse engine is integrated and it does not support the old 
markup, we will indeed need a conversion tool since all the PhpWiki 
sites on SF will not port.

Carsten, not to publicly flog you, but one of the reasons I've fallen 
behind on the CVS list is because of the volume of checkins you make. 
(Oh that all open source projects had such a complaint! :-) I have been 
wondering: if you make the same change to 10 different files, do you 
check in each one individually? It looked that way to me in the past. I 
haven't tried coding PhpWiki in ProjectBuilder yet, and it wouldn't 
suprise me if there were no way to do this (check in ten files at once). 
We could teach you to check in from the Terminal app and possibly save 
you a lot of work.

cheers
~swain