Roadmap for 2.3 and 2.4

Linc

Dashboard redesign is currently slated for Feb. The beta should fork shortly thereafter.

jackjitsu

Going to ask the same question another way....

Is there a way to request and vote on new features for non-techies.

Something like UserVoice or GetSatisfaction.

http://mashable.com/2011/03/06/user-feedback-apps/#wyRAFE.xpqq7

Linc

@jackjitsu said:
Going to ask the same question another way....

Is there a way to request and vote on new features for non-techies.

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/issues

Linc

The Applicants queue is getting a makeover for 2.3. https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/3488

Probie

Do you have an ETA of PHP 7.0 compatibility. I just tested the current Master and it seems to be better than 2.2, but I can't get it to load any pages on the public side of the forum.

Linc

@Probie said:
Do you have an ETA of PHP 7.0 compatibility.

It should be in for 2.3. You can help by filing issues as you find them.

phreak

@linc: An understanding question. There are not much issues left for 2.3 in the Github 2.3 Beta Milestone. Do you keep adding things to this milestone or are we close to a coming release?

Also there is no 2.4 Milestone defined, so it's not easy to follow what upcoming releases will have on its roadmap. Not that it's super needed but it helps to get an overview and guides contributors what to work on.

Regarding php7: My boards works well except the posting messages which are not displayed. So i guess it's almost around the corner. Juchuu. Speed!

Linc

I'm not doing a great job of reflecting the roadmap on GitHub accurately yet. It's complicated for me to juggle our company roadmap while maintaining transparency on the public parts. I'm getting closer, tho.

One complication right now is that the Dashboard redesign got bumped a couple months. So now I'm trying to gauge whether to hold 2.3 for that or bump it to 2.4.

I'm leaning towards bumping it, but prioritizing PHP7 compatibility and wrapping that up this month. We also have a new discussion sorting & filtering module that I expect will be making its debut in 2.3.

Linc

Here's the latest word / summary on 2.3 & 2.4 plans:

• 2.3 will be PHP 7.0 compatible.
• I'd like to fork for a first beta release in the next 2-4 weeks.
• HTML emails is in for 2.3.
• Spoilers are being moved to core for 2.3 (no more plugin).
• Discussions sorting & filtering has been re-architected for 2.3, but it will not have UI until 2.4 (i.e. you can hook into it with a plugin, but a normal user can't sort things on their own yet unless a plugin adds UI).
• Dashboard redesign is officially moved to 2.4, but great progress has been made and I hope to have more news about this soon.
• API v2 is still slated for 2.4.
• I'm guessing 2.4 will be a late summer or early fall release.

Linc

We have started managing more of our roadmap publicly.

Get the ZenHub browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. Info: https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/issues/3682

Then check out our first Epic: https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/issues/3695

Linc

It has begun. https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/tree/release/2.3

And @x00 's reCAPTCHA upgrade slipped in at the last moment.

R_J

@Linc said:
We have started managing more of our roadmap publicly.

Get the ZenHub browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. Info: https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/issues/3682

The To Do list is a great feature, thanks for sharing!

@Linc said:
It has begun. https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/tree/release/2.3

Should PRs go against

a) master
b) release 2.3
c) both

Linc

Continue sending to master as usual. You can note if it should be picked to 2.3.

x00

thanks linc

jimaek

Hey, is there an ETA for 2.3? In your early posts you mentioned March but its May already.

whu606

@jimaek

When they've got news they'll post it here.

There's almost always a gap between hoped for and actual dates for releases.

khoipro

Hi,

I just come here and see a link should be work well with non-unicode character.

My forum link, as example, has a bad link like http://domain.com/index.php?p=/discussion/2/quy-dịnh-chung#latest while I believe WordPress always correct this link as well.

If you can show a code example of how to fix that, I will contribute all characters in Vietnamese as well.

Here is an example with vBulletin forum (source here)

        // Bo Dau Tieng Viet
            $patterns = array (
                '/(à|á|ả|ã|ạ|ă|ằ|ắ|ẳ|ẵ|ặ|â|ầ|ấ|ẩ|ẫ|ậ)/',
                '/(đ)/',
                '/(è|é|ẻ|ẽ|ẹ|ê|ề|ế|ể|ễ|ệ)/',
                '/(ì|í|ỉ|ĩ|ị)/',
                '/(ò|ó|ỏ|õ|ọ|ô|ồ|ố|ổ|ỗ|ộ|ơ|ờ|ớ|ở|ỡ|ợ)/',
                '/(ù|ú|ủ|ũ|ụ|ư|ừ|ứ|ử|ữ|ự)/',
                '/(ỳ|ý|ỷ|ỹ|ỵ)/',
                '/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/' 
                );
            $replace = array (
                'a',
                'd',
                'e',
                'i',
                'o',
                'u',
                'y',
                '-'
                );                
            $title = preg_replace($patterns, $replace, $title);

Thank you,

Linc

@khoipro I'm not clear on what you're requesting or reporting. We do support Unicode characters in URLs as far as I know.

khoipro

@Linc said:
@khoipro I'm not clear on what you're requesting or reporting. We do support Unicode characters in URLs as far as I know.

I don't think so. Here is an example: http://hostviet.org/index.php?p=/discussion/7/review-dịch-vụ-của-cloudone-ssd-vps-việt-nam

The link from displaying when pasting is horrible:

http://hostviet.org/index.php?p=/discussion/7/review-d%E1%BB%8Bch-v%E1%BB%A5-c%E1%BB%A7a-cloudone-ssd-vps-vi%E1%BB%87t-nam

x00

@khoipro said:
The link from displaying when pasting is horrible:

http://hostviet.org/index.php?p=/discussion/7/review-d%E1%BB%8Bch-v%E1%BB%A5-c%E1%BB%A7a-cloudone-ssd-vps-vi%E1%BB%87t-nam

The is completely correct url encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

It is up to the browser to render it correctly, but it is not only a good idea is a standard. Not doing so is not recommended