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IP.Tracker 1.4 Update + Community Project Note
Posted by Alex,
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06 July 2010
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It's been a while since we blogged about the community projects, and we know many of you are eagerly awaiting development updates on them. Today I am going to do just that, with one of our flagship projects: IP.Tracker.
First of all, I'd like to take a brief moment to explain how the community projects work, and why we are unable to push out releases as often as the customers would like. The community projects are all developed by a group of fantastic volunteers. This means that all of the developers have school, part-time/full-time commitments, and obviously other priorities outside of their time developing these projects. This means developers come and go, or sometimes a projects' lead developer will be unavailable for several months, unfortunately this is the way with an open development environment.
We should all remember that the community developers do all of their work on the projects for free, they do not get paid for developing, they do it for the love of the product. I am proud to have every single one of them on the team, and they have done an absolutely fantastic job over the 2 years since we introduced the scheme. We've ran straight into brick-walls, had to reverse the course of action on several ideas, but at the end of the day the projects have been an amazing success. The community developers truly provide an extra incentive to purchase IP.Board for your community, you do not get free, community-driven products like these on other platforms. We should all take a moment now and then to thank the developers for all of their hard work over the past 24 months.
Now that is out of the way, I would like to talk about IP.Tracker and its upcoming release: 1.4.0. First - a bit of history! IP.Tracker 1.3 was a quick port which the team had to get out quickly for the impending release of IP.Board 3.0, the team used what was there with the IP.Board 2 version of Tracker and put a release together. As you can imagine, or even tell if you've been brave enough to dig through the code, is that IP.Tracker 1.3 is a mess. When the code was quickly ported, there was not time to learn about all of IP.Boards new functionality or framework, it was simply a massive search and replace job and making sure it generally worked.
IP.Tracker 1.4 is our chance to fix this, we have pinpointed this release as our stepping stone before IP.Tracker 2.0 - by this I mean that this is a lot of new code and frameworks in place, and around half of the system is all new, but it still has some of the same code in for areas that we do not feel need to be changed at this stage. IP.Tracker 2.0 will be completely fresh from the ground up, 1.4 is halfway there!
Development has been increasing recently and a lot of the framework is now in place! Unfortunately, due to it being a new framework IP.Tracker is currently littered with errors, nothing worth showing you guys just yet! However, the Admin CP of 1.4 has been the center of our attention recently and we have been going over every single interface and completely revamping it!
The main changes you can expect with 1.4 is the look of the product, we have spent an enormous amount of time getting the interface just right, we've gone through several concepts until we are all agreed on one, and then we started implementing it. The overall quality you can expect in 1.4 is a massive improvement over past releases!
IP.Tracker is still in early development and nothing is finished enough to show you yet, but over the next few weeks we shall be posting detailed overviews of the new interfaces in the Admin CP, and what new features they bring. Thanks for your continued support, stay tuned!
First of all, I'd like to take a brief moment to explain how the community projects work, and why we are unable to push out releases as often as the customers would like. The community projects are all developed by a group of fantastic volunteers. This means that all of the developers have school, part-time/full-time commitments, and obviously other priorities outside of their time developing these projects. This means developers come and go, or sometimes a projects' lead developer will be unavailable for several months, unfortunately this is the way with an open development environment.
We should all remember that the community developers do all of their work on the projects for free, they do not get paid for developing, they do it for the love of the product. I am proud to have every single one of them on the team, and they have done an absolutely fantastic job over the 2 years since we introduced the scheme. We've ran straight into brick-walls, had to reverse the course of action on several ideas, but at the end of the day the projects have been an amazing success. The community developers truly provide an extra incentive to purchase IP.Board for your community, you do not get free, community-driven products like these on other platforms. We should all take a moment now and then to thank the developers for all of their hard work over the past 24 months.
Now that is out of the way, I would like to talk about IP.Tracker and its upcoming release: 1.4.0. First - a bit of history! IP.Tracker 1.3 was a quick port which the team had to get out quickly for the impending release of IP.Board 3.0, the team used what was there with the IP.Board 2 version of Tracker and put a release together. As you can imagine, or even tell if you've been brave enough to dig through the code, is that IP.Tracker 1.3 is a mess. When the code was quickly ported, there was not time to learn about all of IP.Boards new functionality or framework, it was simply a massive search and replace job and making sure it generally worked.
IP.Tracker 1.4 is our chance to fix this, we have pinpointed this release as our stepping stone before IP.Tracker 2.0 - by this I mean that this is a lot of new code and frameworks in place, and around half of the system is all new, but it still has some of the same code in for areas that we do not feel need to be changed at this stage. IP.Tracker 2.0 will be completely fresh from the ground up, 1.4 is halfway there!
Development has been increasing recently and a lot of the framework is now in place! Unfortunately, due to it being a new framework IP.Tracker is currently littered with errors, nothing worth showing you guys just yet! However, the Admin CP of 1.4 has been the center of our attention recently and we have been going over every single interface and completely revamping it!
The main changes you can expect with 1.4 is the look of the product, we have spent an enormous amount of time getting the interface just right, we've gone through several concepts until we are all agreed on one, and then we started implementing it. The overall quality you can expect in 1.4 is a massive improvement over past releases!
IP.Tracker is still in early development and nothing is finished enough to show you yet, but over the next few weeks we shall be posting detailed overviews of the new interfaces in the Admin CP, and what new features they bring. Thanks for your continued support, stay tuned!
