Zenphoto Status Report

qtrc

Wholly Snickies!!! That's what I've been waiting for Luckyspin. Keep up the great work. Any time frame on the release of all these new features?

Luckyspin

Yeah, we're hoping to get a new beta release out by next Weds. We still have a few features to wrap up and some testing to do, but sit tight. It's coming!

Teaser: I've also just completed implementing email comment notification for admins. Now you'll know when someone posts to your gallery.

Luckyspin

Check this out:

http://www.luckyspin.org/zenphoto/zen/rss.php

with your favorite RSS reader that is I dunno if I'll get everything done that I want to in time for the next release, but there's hope!

Null

Nice job lucky spin, can we (or I) get some documantation of what and how you've changed it to get this great sorting in? I for one would like to learn to do this, it would be great in other plugins too...

Luckyspin

Hmm.. documentation. That doesn't sound like too much fun Of course, all you need to know is in sortable.php which will be in the new release. Or you can view via the web at the berlios project site.

simon

I suggest the documentation be set up as a simple wiki.

Set up a bare bones framework for the info needed,
and then keep an eye on it adding info as and when appropriate.

That way there is slightly less pressure on you.

I stumbled over a wiki designed specifically for documentation, but i cant remeber what it was called. Anybody know?

Keep up the good work guys, were all cheering you on!

qtrc

Luckyspin, anyway you can make this effect part of zenphoto in a future release?

http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/

Looking forward for 1.0beta!!!

thebludrop

Yes, that lightbox feature is pretty cool. I wouldn't mind seeing it in ZP somehow....

trisweb

For all you watching, check out zenphoto.org for the new 1.0beta release.

And I swear if I hear the word lightbox one more time... (honestly, you have no idea how easy that is to integrate into a theme. try it yourself.)

Chilifrei64

I noticed the download package now says 1.0.1. just out of courisity... what has changed from 1.0b to 1.0.1?

Nevermind.. I downloaded the package and read the changelog..

You should modify the change log on the front page of the site so lazy people like me dont post stupid questions.

Heilemann

Is there an ETA for sub-albums? I'm launching a site, and the gallery I'm going to use has to have sub-albums. ZenPhoto by far my first choice, but I really need sub-albums

WeiChen

Heilemann: sub-albums is done.
trisweb: I wonder if I could join this team ?

aitf311

Now there is a good idea! Let him join Tris and end the craziness, please!?

tdevlin

Since when has sub-albums been done? I don't see anything in the changelog specifying that and I have the latest version. I see nothing about sub-albums.

trisweb

What craziness ;-) We're considering adding WeiChen to the development team now.

tdevlin, subalbums has not been done yet in the main release. WeiChen was talking about his work, which we hope to integrate soon.

Bunglegirl

trisweb,

Thank you very much for releasing and continuing to improve this awesome gallery tool. I am planning to switch my site over to Zen Photo but am starting to get nervous for the release of sub albums. Unfortunately, I'm leaving the country in a few months and need to get the new gallery running asap. So, not to pressure you or peg you down--but I was wondering if you had a better idea of when the sub albums will be released? I really want to go with Zen Photo, but I have to have everything sorted well before I leave so I'm just trying to gauge if I should wait it out or if it's still months away.

Thanks, and I appreciate all of your hard work.

unruly

i am unfortunately going to have to de-recommend this to my friends. i'd told them back in january that subfolders would be coming soon, but it is now almost april. can't keep them waiting any longer. i know it's a completely free utility, and i appreciate all the work that's been done, and you've done a great job. but if you could maintain and update a "status of zenphoto" somewhere, it may've prevented the problems i have been having, and prevented dissapointment without countless people.

dprior

Is this project still alive? Anyone?

smashingjay

I know I am not much of a programmer but this project seems to need to be opened up some as it is stalled. There are features of this project that I think kick ass and would love to see it go forward but there doesn't seem to be a developer community it seems to be a closed source project with many leafs. WeiChen has gone and developed a project based on this and I would like to help clean the CSS and main layout up even further. Too many classes, ids and spans for my taste, subfolders and searches need to be added here also. The only other feature I really want is categories. I like the idea of cross categorizing without subfolders and this would only ad one simple table to the db. I have watched many different OS projects over the years and now find one that I think is perfect and it is hindered by overburdened project developers.

My solution is a user submission system where developers can add snippets and sections or improvements that are then reviewed by the dev team or a member and then either implemented or dropped. In addition, having one or two people tackling one segment of the the project path such as search or sub folders instead of each doing a little here and a little there which doesn't get new working functions out and makes the project look stale.

I thank all the members of the dev team and wish the best in their other lives, lets open up and make this the best script it can possibly be.

-Jay

Nirv

Are those crickets I hear chirping?

aitf311

I guess so....

smashingjay

Okay. Yes, I am guilty of a longwinded diatribe.

Here is the condensed version:

Great Script, busy dev team, want to help, and get others to do so also. Make killer script!

-Jay

Nirv

I'm starting to think that this project is dead or dying.

3stripe

For a non expert coders like me, I'm finding it VERY hard to get anywhere with Zenhphoto. Managed to install it ok after a bug in the installer was fixed, and get the basics working fine.

BUT none of my many questions on the forum other than this have been answered - this doesn't bade well if you look at the levels of activity on other forums.

I fully appreciate that everyone working on Zenphoto is busy and probably has better things to do (aren't we all ;-) but it would still be really nice to learn how to use Zenphoto on my blog - or to be able to include special characters or links in my image descriptions without having to hard code them.

Anyhow, rant over, look forward to the project moving forward :-)

trisweb

For the love of God, the project is NOT dead. Have some patience, people. We are open source programmers, and no one is paying us to cater to your every whim, so calm down and take it as it is. Negative feedback will not speed up the process.

This is a young, fairly inactive project, and my first one at that. I've made mistakes, and I'm learning. Please bear with me.

Chilifrei64

Looks like i should of put my last post here.. I didnt even see this..

he is right though.. we need to be patient.