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Status... status... oh....
Obviously with months since a release, development has "stalled." I've lost interest, as I often do when a project of mine strays too far toward being "hacked together" and I just don't feel like touching it anymore...
I believe the status is as such: I will continue to implement sub-albums and release a 1.1 version with them included sometime in the coming months.
After that, I will begin work on a total rewrite, Zenphoto 2.0, where I can fix problems from the start that have been haunting me throughout development. There is a time when one must just pick up and start over, especially with software, and that time is nearing for ZP. Hopefully 2.0 will be everything 1.0 was, but built from the ground up to be much more organized and cleaner with the features everyone wants, rather than hacking on new features to a codebase, and indeed a concept, that wasn't designed for them.
But of course in the end that's just an excuse; I really should have sub-albums on the 1.0 branch by now, and I apologize. I will work on it.
Obviously with months since a release, development has "stalled." I've lost interest, as I often do when a project of mine strays too far toward being "hacked together" and I just don't feel like touching it anymore...
I believe the status is as such: I will continue to implement sub-albums and release a 1.1 version with them included sometime in the coming months.
After that, I will begin work on a total rewrite, Zenphoto 2.0, where I can fix problems from the start that have been haunting me throughout development. There is a time when one must just pick up and start over, especially with software, and that time is nearing for ZP. Hopefully 2.0 will be everything 1.0 was, but built from the ground up to be much more organized and cleaner with the features everyone wants, rather than hacking on new features to a codebase, and indeed a concept, that wasn't designed for them.
But of course in the end that's just an excuse; I really should have sub-albums on the 1.0 branch by now, and I apologize. I will work on it.
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Zenphoto rocks even without the subfolders! Thank you again for making this available to us all.
Subfolders would be an excellent addition to Zenphoto, but as you are giving up your personal time to do this, I applaud you for any effort you put into Zenphoto. THANK YOU!
Subfolders would be an excellent addition to Zenphoto, but as you are giving up your personal time to do this, I applaud you for any effort you put into Zenphoto. THANK YOU!
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Just MHO, but if one of the features planned for the rewrite were some sort of plugin system or the like (a'la wordpress), I think that could take a lot of the pressure off you and put it more onto the userbase to develop addtl features. As long as the hooks were in place, we could get our geek on and hopefully develop things that some people want, but others don't need (eg: lightbox, exif/iptc, etc).
That said, I completely understand how software can be one's baby and very personal, so i'd understand if you *aren't* aiming for that at all
Either way, i'm still excited for whatever changes you intend to make, and subalbums will be fantastico for many, many folks (I know for sure me). Kudos to tris and everyone else who has helped to this point in development
That said, I completely understand how software can be one's baby and very personal, so i'd understand if you *aren't* aiming for that at all
Either way, i'm still excited for whatever changes you intend to make, and subalbums will be fantastico for many, many folks (I know for sure me). Kudos to tris and everyone else who has helped to this point in development
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Tris, we all aprecciate your work and thank you.
I'm not a big PHP developer but I think I could help with some some... Anything I could do to help you, to not loose interest in ZP, count on me.
What about, then, a topic for "features requests" for ZP 2.0??
I think "plugins" or "extensions" are features that's in high approval of all developers... Firefox, Joomla, Wordpress and so on are good examples... That way we could keep ZP simple and perfect as it is... And the others developers could extend it as needed...
But I think with subalbums ZP would be just perfect for me.
Well, the possibility to "include" it in an already made existant template would be great too...
Cheers
And sorry for my bad english...
I'm not a big PHP developer but I think I could help with some some... Anything I could do to help you, to not loose interest in ZP, count on me.
What about, then, a topic for "features requests" for ZP 2.0??
I think "plugins" or "extensions" are features that's in high approval of all developers... Firefox, Joomla, Wordpress and so on are good examples... That way we could keep ZP simple and perfect as it is... And the others developers could extend it as needed...
But I think with subalbums ZP would be just perfect for me.
Well, the possibility to "include" it in an already made existant template would be great too...
Cheers
And sorry for my bad english...
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