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Unofficial WebsiteBaker community & developer meeting

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easyuser:
Hello,

for now we have 4 dates with 7 participants.
So the meeting will start on Thursday, 23.April (in two days) 20:00 Berlin / Amsterdam time.
I hope there's no problem with summertime / wintertime  8-) - for international community member:
8pm / 20.00h UTC +2 hours.
Nibz can of course participate later.

If somebody want's to take part that has not voted in Doodle - of course anybody that want's to take part at a constructive discussion / meeting about WebsiteBaker can take part.

We'll use Skype for the meeting, because most people I know from WB are "skyping".
Please contact "luisehahne" or "michael.tenschert" for the meeting.

If there are any questions or suggestions regarding the meeting - please add them here. Thanks!

Boudi:
Forgive me, I hope I can make it at 20.00 utc +2. Trying between 20.00 and 20.30. (wife-working-kids)

Most important during our conference call is to respect and listen to each other opinions/minds. (otherwise I'm gone)

We all share our personal minds and ideas during this meeting. All good but the main goal is wb.

Like Nibz already mentioned to avoid a mess an agenda is needed.

For me I would like some talk about the following (as a non-coder)

- is a wb core upgrade really needed? (I'm not a coder, for me wb still does the job perfect)
- upgrade the standard wb install (get rid of old templates/fckeditor and all stuff we don't need)
- use of the new wb admin as a standard admin
- much better mod development. Personally for me this is the most important issue. Users walk away because of this.
- Avoid proliferation of alternative wb sites/core developments. Let's keep the whole wb development tight (though Github is not bad I guess)
- Forum upgrade! Since 1830 we're watching the same forum. Not good. In the last months I already did some testing on new platforms but merging the smf-db into other platforms is almost impossible. What's left is upgrade our SMF to the latest version and put a new, responsive template on it. So (new) users can see finally action in WB world.

So in short for me an agenda would be something like this:

- status new wb
- clean up wb
- Mod development
- current forum
- github

Kind regards,

Boudi

easyuser:
Hello,

after asking Luisehahne we will start 20.30 utc +2 not 20.00, so 1/2 hour later.
I hope it fits better for nibz and Boudi.

I'll prepare an agenda for this evening.

Stefek:

--- Quote from: easyuser on April 21, 2015, 10:50:58 PM ---If there are any questions or suggestions regarding the meeting - please add them here. Thanks!

--- End quote ---

Hello Michael, hello everybody.

Here are some suggestions from me what should be considered if WebsiteBaker is to come to a higher level.

First of all: let it be a community project again.

For 3+ years, NO NEW WebsiteBaker RELEASE has seen the light of day.
Only one person is developing the code, entirely ignoring community efforts, good intentions and solutions.

The Repository is not moving forward, no one can really see what is currently being done and where it is going.

Nobody really knows when the next version will be released.

My Quick-Fix suggestion is as follows:
Set a release date (i.e. 1st of June) and make it FIX (don't change it anymore).
At this date, a BETA Version of 2.8.4. should be released to the community (as it used to be before DarkViper took over the development).
Announce a feature freeze.
Correct the bugs the community reports.
Continue with RCs (with a feature freeze) until all bugs are handled.
Release the final version.
Hand over the 2.8.x Development to Luisehane (or whoever is able and willing to lead the cause) and the community.

DarkViper shall then work on her development separately. As it was planned some time ago (Dietmar and Michael and some other people may remember).

The community can then work on the 2.8.x and develop and implement new features. The community and the system make progress again.
And if (and when) DarkViper's ideas are realized (all that she is trying to implement for way too long now), the community can merge their ideas with DarkViper's branch.

As long as this procrastination is being practised as it currently is being done by DarkViper, only more shrinkage of potential in community will be the result.

It's going on for too long already.

And, as one of the community members said:

--- Quote from: nibz on April 20, 2015, 12:07:45 PM ---
And don't forget: "Together Everyone Achieves More".

--- End quote ---

Thank you for consideration,
Stefek

P.S. It is not to say that I have no respect for DarkVipers work. I do. I did even learn few things. But it is one thing to have the skills and a different thing is to actually deliver. After 3 years at least a in-between-version should have been delivered. And as I have spoken to some guys latly, they see it exactly as I do.

nibz:
I will be attending.

Rescheduled my agenda + the 30 minutes switch later was welcome.

See you tonight

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