Weekly Status Update 1

[Michael Morris]

From here on out on Monday's I'm going to do a status thread to go over what got accomplished over the prior weekend, since that's when most of the coding gets done. For those that haven't noticed ENWorld 2 is now under production This is what it is --

• It will be a completely new code base with no legacy code from the current site.
• It will be powered by Joomla 1.0, vBulletin 3.6, bbpixelBridge, jReviews 1.0 and an estimated 3000 lines of custom code.
• It will use all of the nifty features you've seen at CircvsMaximvs and other vb 3.6 sites, and then some.
• The news section is getting a complete overhaul.
• The reviews are being moved to a new software suite (jReviews)
• It will clear the way for new feature additions based on the Joomla platform which are far more robust than those possible with the current codebase.

Over the weekend the Joomla integration was completed. Since Joomla will be bearing the weight anything not forums related it is highly important that this step be completed first. As other milestones are accomplished they will be noted.

Development of EN2 is occuring on a different virtual host entry. For the moment it is closed to the public (the technically savvy probably can figure out how to reach it though). Once all of its features are installed and believed to be working a 2 week beta test will be conducted where forum members can log in and play around. Posts made on the dev platform during that beta will be lost. Unless a major error is discovered during the beta the forums will be upgraded to them.

My target for Beta is late March, though if that date slips I won't be surprised. Certainly I want the site converted over in time for Gencon.

And that's pretty much all I have to report that hasn't been discussed before. I'll be happy to field questions about the upgrade.

 

[Cergorach]

Weren't you going to go with Joomla 1.5?

 

[JVisgaitis]

We going to get RSS feeds with EN World 2?

 

[ssampier]

Sounds like a lot of work.

I am most anxious about the new reviews section. Otherwise, I glance at the frontpage and then go here.

 

[Qualidar]

It will use all of the nifty features you've seen at CircvsMaximvs and other vb 3.6 sites, and then some.

Yay!! It's been getting to the point that I was actually going to start asking for that stuff over here. The ability to fork threads, muli-quote, and have the view new posts button work properly will make this a much better place.

Thanks for all the hard work. I'm pre-appreciating it already.

~Qualidar~

 

[Nyaricus]

MM, When ENW2 springs up, ENW1 will have everything ported over, right?

cheers,
--N

 

[greywulf]

I'm be waiting for all the "I prefer ENW1", "how can we re-create ENW1 using ENW2" and "who still uses ENW1" threads to start.

Way to go guys! Keep up the good work, we wait with baited breath.

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Query

MM, When ENW2 springs up, ENW1 will have everything ported over, right?

If, for some reason, this is not the case ... will we still be able to access our old stuff here?

-Samir

 

[Nyaricus]

If, for some reason, this is not the case ... will we still be able to access our old stuff here?

-Samir

Another good point, actually. I would not want to loose anything here.

cheers,
--N

 

[Varianor Abroad]

This is really cool! Thanks for the update.