[EventCalendar] Re: ec3 development

[Alex Tingle]

Hi Peter. I hear you.

Work's been really busy for a few months now, so EC has slipped down  
the priorities. I'll certainly try to pay a little bit more attention  
to it, but I don't think I'm going to have a lot of time for working  
on it.

I'm more than happy to apply patches, or to give check-in rights to  
keen and competent contributors.

> - syncing to gCal &c.

Sounds like a great idea.

> - customizing date display
> - conflicts with other plugins

Most conflicts in the past have revolved around mutually incompatible  
changes to the SQL. There are ways of coding it to be as cooperative  
as possible (assign an alias to new joins). I think that's all done  
in EC now, but it took a long time, and other plug-in authors need to  
be educated.

> - compatibility with wp 2.3

This has got to be top priority. I'm massively behind the times with  
this - if someone can point me to a problem list, then I'll try to  
find some time for it.


> However, I'd love to be able to add my 'extensions' in a sensible  
> way to ec ... how would we go about it?

So many people want to customise EC that I think it needs to start  
using WP's own action hooks framework. That would enable additional  
plug-ins to come along and extend EC in a controllable way.

-Alex

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On 20 Sep 2007, at 23:19, Dr. Peter Troxler wrote:

> Hi Alex
>
> there's been quite some stuff going on on the mailing list re ec3  
> development
>
> - syncing to gCal &c.
> - customizing date display
> - conflicts with other plugins
> - compatibility with wp 2.3
>
> I was able to help out with some of the issues, as have been quite  
> some other ppl on the mailing list.
>
> however, I noticed a distinct silence from your part, and no  
> updates on the website since february.
>
> with wp 2.3 pending on us I am a little worried if you (or your  
> guys) are planning to keep up development of ec3.  I would not  
> have, most probably, the resources to support you on that (other  
> than testing),  and I feel a little bit left alone, if you know  
> what I mean.
>
> However, I'd love to be able to add my 'extensions' in a sensible  
> way to ec ... how would we go about it?
>
> Further, I'd suggest, if that's not too much to ask, that you'd  
> give a short update to the community where we're at and what steps  
> are planned for the future.
>
> Best
>
> / Peter Troxler



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