NEW: official docs, repo changes, site updates, and releases!

Linc

You probably saw we released 2.1 stable today and refreshed this site's theme.

Here's a few more things you might have missed in the last few days:

• At long last, the GitHub repo was renamed from Garden to vanilla. Clarity!
• We rewrote the README so it doesn't suck. Hello world!
• We launched docs.vanillaforums.com which is mapped to an official docs repo. Oh snap!
• The changelog is up-to-date for the first time since, I dunno, 2011? Yowza!
• Vanilla Porter hit 2.0 with new support for vBulletin 5 & IPB. Bam!
• After a long stint as "stealth" open source in our Addons repo, the Multilingual plugin was officially released in the directory. Ciao!
• This site got the cloud-exclusive new mobile theme Lithe for your browsing pleasure. ^5 @Kasper!

I hope today assuages any fears that we are less than serious about our open source project (and then some). We've stepped up our game, and the community has certainly stepped up theirs to match these last few months.

We couldn't be happier with all the testing, GitHub tickets, and pull requests we've been seeing, especially in the buildup to 2.1. Thanks for your continued support. Cheers, everyone!

peregrine

Congrats...

party!

hgtonight

Woot!

Time to update client installs.

@Kasper I am loving the new mobile theme! Where can I submit feedback?

vrijvlinder

Wow I think I am having palpitations !!

Kasper

@hgtonight‌ Glad you like it! You're more than welcome to submit feedback directly via email

peregrine

@Kasper‌

the lithe mobile theme looks great. I really like the pop-to-side panel on left when clicking top left.

peregrine

and the most important thing missing in the (dealing with bonk errors).
http://docs.vanillaforums.com/

it is however in the old documentation.

http://vanillaforums.org/docs/errors

Linc

@peregrine that old page is deprecated by the simpler Debug=TRUE, which is the first step on the new troubleshooting page: http://docs.vanillaforums.com/developers/troubleshooting/

Linc

The docs repo has moved to: https://github.com/vanilla/vanilladocs

Updated the link above.

peregrine

sadly, I think the original docs provided more information and was easier to navigate than the current docs and it really needs a big splashpage with links, like the wiki, that hbf has.

It could be just me adjusting. but

I still can't fathom at all why the vanilla crew - can't put a friendly link for the wiki that many have added to anywhere in the official documentation. Is having a friendly link to the wiki something that would cause vanilla to implode upon itself.

http://vanillawiki.homebrewforums.net/index.php/Main_Page

noticed a few typos - in docs like configuation

hgtonight

The URL for the community wiki isn't exactly business friendly (I like beer, but some might get turned off by homebrewforums.net).

peregrine

yea I guess that is why the "homebrew" computer club never blossomed and no businesses started using pc's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/personal-computers/17/312

I suspect the url name has absolutely nothing to do with reason for not including wiki. if it does, then let it be said.

vrijvlinder

It looks very nice. I am sure it is going to grow and possibly even include a wiki. How do I know this? The same way I knew there would be a version 2.0.18.11 before anyone else did.

Give it a few weeks I say. And we can provide the wiki link for as long as it is needed.

peregrine

on this page

http://docs.vanillaforums.com/

link is broken here for "open source project"

Vanilla Forums Official Documentation

You can contribute to these docs via the GitHub repository.

Vanilla Forums consists of both an open source project and a cloud hosting solution. The documents cover five major areas:

it seems clicking on open source project should go here: https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla

not here as it does currently:

https://github.com/vanillaforums.com/vanilla

or I'm confused. where it is supposed to go... the current link does not work.

    Vanilla Forums consists of both an
    <a href="http://github.com/vanillaforums.com/vanilla">open source project</a>
    and a
    <a href="http://vanillaforums.com">cloud hosting solution</a>
    . The documents cover five major areas:

or maybe you haven't switched over to the new location. I'm a bit lost. bits of info all of over the place and hard to figure out which is the current state. I get confused easily, and i read the discussions daily, I imagine there's a few people who may be equally confused, if not more

Linc

Thanks, just me typing too fast.

The docs have its own issue tracker: https://github.com/vanilla/vanilladocs/issues

peregrine

well, at least now you know in case you want to make the simple change. good to know about the issues tracker on documentation.

just a thought: if the issues in the documentation were updated on a regular basis (weekly or monthly) and reviewed and changed on a regular basis (weekly or monthly) without a pull request (by just noting the issue or problem in a comment or issue., maybe more people could improve the documentation.

I know there are other fish to fry and more important things to do like fixing some of the plugins, so docs would take a bit of a backburner.

Linc

I rewrote the main Framework page and these over the weekend:

• Requests (formerly "ajax")
• Assets
• Controllers
• Database