As a part of our ever continuing efforts to become more efficient we will close the separate Development site June 1st and keep all of our development, support, and all other related issues on this here site, UK Main.

It's our hope that this will bring some synergy effects along with it at the same time as it will strengthen our Team spirit. We have had internal sites for staff, development etc for many years now and it's time that we try a totally new concept, to keep all stuff under one roof. In short, we need to strengthen our team spirit and we need to focus our attention better and by keeping it all tight and concentrated in one area, we think we will achieve our goals better and faster. Our present way of development has proven to be slow beyond what can be tolerated and also at times errors have slipped between our fingers like sand.

All of the necessary development tools have been migrated to UK Main, those developers that wish to continue participating to develop this software are welcome to move your codes and other stuff to the main site, as some of you already have done. All ready to go.

We will, since it has been a longstanding wish from many of our developers, use Github as our Code Repository instead of the old SVN. It will be a new experience to some of you, but you're not developers for the good looks, you'll get the hang of it!

We also welcome new and old, or should I say experienced, developers back to join us in our biggest undertaking so far, to develop V8. We'll need all the help and cooperation we can get in this major task.

The present Development site will be closed down no later than June 1st, if you wish to contribute to the development starting today, please sign up for it on UK Main.

Also, when everything has been moved and the old development site is closed and the new one is up and running, we will release a major patch, version 7.02.07 and quite a large patch at that.

We have more news up our sleeves, but this will do for today: June 1st all of the action will take place on UK Main.

We bid you all a very warm welcome to join us in developing the finest software there ever was: PHP-Fusion!

KEFF on May 25 2013 04:38:14

Some of you may have seen an american site lurking out there as another small community hub and perhaps wondering of its ties with the Official International Community and its base here at the UK site.

Well, wonder no more!

PHP-Fusion U.S.A has started up as a small, yet strong and reliable , prospering sibling to our other NSS sites and it is with great pleasure and pride I have the honour to announce it's official status as National Support Site: PHP-Fusion U.S.A.
With this announcement I hope (as MT as well as Coordinator of 8 and NSS Liaison) to tie even more angloamerican users to the International Community of PHP-Fusion and also hoping for some of their cunning coders and graphic artists to do even more towards our development.

Welcome!

Richard Ainz on April 27 2013 13:20:13

Hello everyone!

We know that many people have been questioning our current development progress.

In order to simplify and speed up our progress we have started to get Github up and running.

With Github initiated everyone can see what's been done and what's left to do, naturally also help out with detecting optimizations and errors in published codes.

As a result of this we will start to shut the V8 site down and move all needed tools to the UK Main site in the development section here.

We have made one important structural change in order to become more efficient.
The role as Lead Developer have been removed as a whole and Christian will be one of our Senior developers instead.

The Management Team will setup milestones of what we want developed to the core and pass the task down to our developers who whishes to help out.
We will try to assign a dedicated developer to each task we agree upon.
The developer responsible for that task will be the current task´s team leader and have it´s own dedicated thread to follow it through.


These are some of the key milestones we whish to achieve before a PHP-Fusion V8 beta can be released.

• Make everything possible to infusions, We need to lift it out of the core but remain as supported by core, (Shipped with pack if you will).
This development step was decided a long time ago, but no list was created, thus causing some confusion.
We do not make a MCS (Mass Content System), we make a CMS. It is time we prove it once and for all and focus our efforts on the core and it´s functions rather than our community plugins.
New, improved and very light core which will be able to handle all sorts of Addons a lot better and easier.
Community plugins are better handled and maintained by the community that requires it, if we receive good mods we will naturally use them.
Here are some examples: Articles, FaQ, Forums, News, Photo Albums, Web links, Polls, Downloads.

• Rewrite of setup.php to match the above changes ( Selectable setup of what to include in your installation )
• PHP Data Objects (PDO) - Will need to find someone who knows how this works and how to make it work within our current framework.
• SEO friendly URL rewriting layer. - Ankur.
• A general approach to subcategory structures. - Matthew.
• New shiny admin interface. - Hal´s project completed and implemented. - Halisson Ricardo
• Theme engine improvements. - We will focus on Hien´s core engine.

It is our intentions and hopes that this somewhat altered structure of doing the actual coding will speed up the whole process as such and we hope that after the initial getting used to Github,
you will all be able to contribute to rewrite this CMS to become a major player on the market.

Simple, intuitive, fast and finally, easy to understand and adjustable for our users.
After all, they are the ones we develop for!

For further details, keep an eye open for more details to come.

Regards, PHP-Fusion Management Team

Domi on April 23 2013 00:38:00