Question [Merged topic] General questions about Kunena 1.6 - please do not ask about release dates

I understand people being impatient and when their impatience becomes too much for them to bear they're over-eager to rush into just doing whatever their heart tells them to do. There's an old saying "Marry in haste, repent at leisure."

I remember when K 1.5.0a was released and over-enthusiastic users rushed to take it up, install it on their live sites, demand support and regret the day they did so. Fortunately, in that case, users could go back to K 1.0.8 and they didn't suffer any major catastrophe.

K 1.6 is totally different. Once you've installed it there's no "going back" - well, not unless you are prepared to pay someone to do the job for you! The risks are greater and that is the reason why the development of this product has been undertaken with the great care.

But, in addition to all of these caveats, K 1.6 installs differently (in some ways) and it operates differently to what you're familiar with in the current and older versions of Kunena and that is why we've spent the past couple of months discussing it. So, while I understand the growing impatience that many of our users must feel, we ask you to let your mind govern the way you decide things ... not your heart.

To return to the question that was asked, please read Kunena 1.6 - Where is the alpaca?

I have read the warnings and post and quite simply put want to help improve "on my time", otherwise I would have jumped in on the couple of invites I have already have. Unfortunately I can't commit my time to a project because of my life outside of the web.

With that being said I can't join the dev team, its just not in my schedule to do so.

Like you said, once you go you can't go back. I think that applies to the average user and users who do the stupid thing and install on a live site without first creating a backup. As sad as it may seem we have all done this even if by accident but some folks just disregard the warning so I see that side of it.

I also know that with major creations or milestones documentation is quite a pain. My post was more to get someone "on the dev team" to speak up and give us some kind of hope/insight as to when we can expect a next release?

I personally could care less about Joomla 1.6 right now, and if its anything like Joomla 1.0 -to- Joomla 1.5 its going to be somewhat painstaking. So if Joomla 1.6 is a hold back, I beg you to please not let it be.

James

I really want to whip up some templates for K1.6!

Did you read the post I referred to in my last message? Are you willing to provide feedback on the issues that you encounter with the test version? Did you ask to join the testing team and, if so, what was the response? :dry:

As I mentioned I will report what I find if I do find issues, but I can not commit to being a dedicated Beta Tester. I have been asked/approached about joining on more than one occasion. I was unable to join because of my scheduling.

If I do have more time I will join which will come as my projects come to a close.

I was apart of the Fireboard Team as well as FireMessage (Clexus) amongst others around the Joomla community.

sozzled wrote:

Did you read the post I referred to in my last message? Are you willing to provide feedback on the issues that you encounter with the test version? Did you ask to join the testing team and, if so, what was the response? :dry:

Thanks,
James

Being in our test team does not mean that you have to find bugs and report all of them. It just gives you access to our latest internal builds and gives you a channel to give feedback. There are no oblications (well, other than if you haven't said a word in few months, you will be removed from the testers team). It allows us to give unstable builds for those, who are interested to look at them -- without giving them to everyone who most likely do not know the risks before installing them and breaking their site.

Actually K1.6 Alpha was delayed for 2 reasons:
1) to give me some time to change our installer so, that it will leave working backup if you want to go back to older version (new messages will be lost, though)
2) to make it work on J1.6, at least in some level that people know that we are committed to it..

Alpha release is not meant for translators or template designers -- Alpha is almost feature complete, but our beta release will include cleanup in language files and a lot of work in templating (+ usual bug fixes). So instead of making your own templates, I would like you to contribute into our default template -- fix issues in it so that everyone, including you, can benefit from cleaner and better html and css.

Hi Matias,

You have a PM regarding the question of people wanting to test.