Dev Diary: Beta 11

AndrewBond

Sentinel take a look here : https://discuss.flarum.org/d/6755-the-new-improved-flarum-roadmap

tankerkiller125

Sentinel They have information when they have information, It's a small team of developers who have other things to do as well. Flarum in it's current state is pretty stable and is run in production by both small and very large communities. The unstable part is the extension APIs that extension developers use.

matteocontrini

@luceos @Franz I'm wondering if you could share if you have any plans for stepping up Flarum's development pace. It's not a secret that Flarum's development is glacial, since there's just a few commits per month when there's a lot of work that needs to be done.

I'm not blaming you of anything of course, I understand the reasons why it's like this, but since you seem to be very convinced with bringing Flarum forward, especially with the recent Flarum Foundation thing, you must be thinking about a way to push Flarum's development 😄. Ultimately, that's what will keep the software innovative and make sure it survives the competition going forward.

Thanks

luceos

matteocontrini would this answer your question: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/21468-our-release-cycle ?

matteocontrini

luceos well, yes, partially... Fixed release cycles are great to see and definitely useful for administrators, but I was thinking more about the actual changes/improvements. For example, beta11 is just about a couple of weeks away and most issues scheduled for beta11 will be clearly moved to beta12. And the same happened with beta10. I know, it's a consequence of fixed releases, but still... It will take a year and 3 releases to tackle the issues that were scheduled for one beta, with this rate.

brian85

nitaaikumar I just taked the domain with OVH and a VPS and it works well you can always add a dkim manually, but in my case it seems to be enough, nos users reported me that emails are in their spam folder.

luceos

matteocontrini in all honesty, there are several initiatives to step up the game. But many of those require a) more money b) more people or c) more time from existing staff. I've been spending a lot of time to get all of these of the ground, but this has to be done gradually and with care.

In the meantime all our eyes are aimed at a stable release for 2020, but more specifically beta 11.

matteocontrini

luceos thanks 🙂

brian85

luceos Keep the motivation ! Many of us understand how it's dificult to keep the motivation along the time and behind the desktops there is humans with all their up and downs, so you have all my support and it will be done when it will be done the important is the quality, 2020 will be a great year for flarum !

meetdilip

Implementing traditional installer will improve confidence on the life cycle of Flarum. Another thing is the dependence on numerous addons. The bazaar is handling it well, I think.

luceos

An update long overdue, woops!

I've been making some progress on the changes required to the user preferences column that stores both notification preferences and all others. These are going to be split up, notification preferences will be moved into its own table and specific user preferences are suggested to be a dedicated column on the users table. This requires more work than anticipated because there are several methods on the User class that we are going to mark deprecated.
Updated our servers to protect against CVE-2019-11043.
Readied up a new donation source we're going to announce mid November 🤐
Formulated and discussed a new source for development capacity. We're going to do a trial run during the next development cycles.
Moving forward in gaining our first partner, a kind of sponsor that signs a contract with us to gain long term financial support.
Lots of other small organizational things and decisions.

neptronix

luceos Congrats on finding the sponsor, wish i could contribute more!

meetdilip

You are a super active guy @luceos . I look forward to see those interesting things that will happen to Flarum.

fur2

Want to use it on the cpanel. I've been watching since I went to college. The good news is that I'm graduating now. Thank you for your work.

meetdilip

We can at some point submit Flarum to install through Softaculous as well. It helps improve adoption.

luceos

A very turbulent week and that had an impact on my ability to post. To sum it up:

The Flarum Foundation has received full ownership of intellectual property and access to accounts relating to the Flarum project 🥳 This means the Foundation now finally isn't just a pretty face 👸 , but also holds this wonderful software in a protective shell. With this finally off our plate we will move forward with some of the other plans we have 😏 ..
Got back in touch with a merchandise vendor, whom we'll announce publicly soon ™️ . We'd love to hear what kind of Flarum swag you cannot live without 👷‍♂️ !
We've been asked to join the GitHub sponsors alpha for teams. Their personal sponsors pages was opened up just recently, our Flarum sponsors page was set up before GitHub Universe this week and became immediately available when they announced the feature!
Worked with Franz and Jordan on our processes as a foundation, including decision making.
Reached out to yet another potential source of income; more soon 😉
Joined the staff meeting today. Where we talked about our release schedule, PR's, code and many other things.
Worked on:
- flarum/core1467 user preferences
- flarum/core978 sending of notifications now forced into the queue
- flarum/core1879 fix the queue commands for restart and listen
- reviewing a ton of issues and pull requests

I'd like to point out that I've seen people ask often enough how to help get Flarum to stable. Hoping that extensive answers cause an increase of people willing to support, yet the reality is different. Not everyone is a coder and not everyone has much to spare, I get that.

But do allow me to point out that what really helps us right now is to get more funds into our project. These funds are crucial while securing name, brand and as investment in our community and ecosystem. Even the smallest donations can make a world of difference; become fundamental in our growth and support us!

On Open Collective or
on GitHub 👈️ check out that awesome page.

[deleted]

luceos I'm going to be reallocating my recently cancelled recache subscription into a monthly flarum donation instead

Edit - monthly donation is now active as of today.

tankerkiller125

luceos swag I can't live without: shirts, mugs and stickers are all core swag items.

jordanjay29

tankerkiller125 So you've been naked, thirsty and, uhh, unstuck this whole time?! 😉

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