BuddyPress Beta December 15th
Some exciting news on the BuddyPress front – the first beta release of BuddyPress will be on December 15th.
In an ideal world it would have been great to put out a final release before Christmas, but there was simply too much left to do before the feature freeze on the 15th. There needs to be a solid period of testing in the beta phase before a first final version can be released into the wild.
The plugins will all be released as standalone versions with their own beta and final release. It doesn’t make any sense to package all the plugins together as a “1.0″ version as they all work on their own and won’t rely on each other to run.
The only possible issue I see with individual plugin releases is confusion with BuddyPress plugin version numbers. For example, in the future if you upgrade to “BP XProfile 1.5″, this may require “BP Core 1.4″ or greater. Users will need to upgrade both plugins to get things working and that could cause confusion.
I’d like to see a system built that will display all the versions of components you are running and also check for incompatibilities. For example, if you installed a new version the friends component, which needed a new version of the core, it would tell you this upon install. That would clear up a lot of potential problems around installation and upgrades.
It’ll be exciting to see what people do with this thing. Head over to http://testbp.org to give it a try.
BuddyPress la prima Beta sarà rilasciata il 15 dicembre » Archivi Blog » WordPress Italy 10:01 pm on November 27, 2008 Permalink |
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Raul 12:45 pm on November 28, 2008 Permalink |
Congratulations Andy!
(and since the first commenter announced what you just said in Italian, I guess I should say congratulazione!)
I still have to do the TestBP thingie. But I feel guilty of joining considering how long I’ve fought against joining Facebook.
Stuart 11:12 pm on November 29, 2008 Permalink |
Congratz Andy… one thing… is it just me or is TESTBP reeeeally slow. I’m not sure if it’s the server it’s running on or if it’s an issue with BP itself.
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Andy P 11:31 am on December 1, 2008 Permalink |
@Stuart: You may have hit the site when the host was having issues. It doesn’t seem slow for me, average load time is only a few seconds.
Slava 2:57 am on December 6, 2008 Permalink |
I think that the good idea would be to standardize all versions numbers. For example, SomePlugin v1.4 is working good with only AnotherPlugin v1.4. The same numbers, I mean.
And every plugin will check the version of those one it’s depends on.
Kulpreet Singh 1:37 am on December 9, 2008 Permalink |
Congratulations Andy. I’m really looking forward to it. Making a community network in BuddyPress is my winter break project.
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