We've been knocking out some good stuff lately, and there's only one or two things left on my immediate agenda. So I took some time to revise my roadmap for the immediate future. Here's an outline of things to come:
1. Finish up the current 3.3.x series and put out a stable 3.4. Basically, as soon as we feel confident the currently release seems to be working. 2. Add a few things to the 3.4 series and finish it off with a final, stable 3.5. And make this the end of the entire 3.xx round of development. The todo's for 3.4 include: * Improved automatic paragraph making... We really need an entirely different system for doing this... Have some ideas, but haven't tinkered much with them yet. Soon... * Improved performance of searching by caching index, and a new data querying technique... I have a custom query script working on my site, that gives impressive results speed wise, and with many enhanced capabilities. I just need to integrate it into the core somehow. 3. For 4.xx I plan to finally do the major overhaul I've been planning for how forms work. Namely, forcing all commands to be session variables and allowing formats like this: [session mail to=... from=... subject=... body=... etc] These were listed as a 3.5 goal, but I've renumbered things, and it seems more appropriate to make this a 4.xx goal, as it could be quite disruptive, affecting virtually all existing sites and many plugins... Yet I'm convinced this will be a major improvement to things. Can't wait to do it... The other goal for 4.xx is to go through the code very carefully and try to simplify everything possible: strip out all absolutely unnecessary code. Features we don't use. Options we don't need. Anything complicated. That kind of stuff. Just general house cleaning. Perhaps even get us back down to under 100k. I've been beginning to feel BoltWire is not quite as spry as it once was... To be honest, I'm inclined to have a BoltWire lite and a BoltWire pro. With the lite version being a simpler feature set that is rock solid stable, easy to use, and rarely updated. Just works. And then a BoltWire pro that is more full featured, with a several choice plugins built in, more actions and common stuff built in. Everything ready to go as an all-in-one CMS system. Just toying with the idea actually. Not sure I like maintaining two versions, but I like the idea of giving people a really positive, first impression. And of having something bigger with everything in it. Just thinking out loud. Well, open to feedback and opinions, and of course feature requests not listed above. All the usual stuff. Thanks to everyone for being a part of BoltWire's development. Cheers, Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en.
