Developer Preview Coming to an End
We have two items that we want to introduce into Kaylee over the next couple of weeks related to how she works with add-ons and external applications. Once add-on developers have had the opportunity to test them out, the Developer Preview program will come to end.
Aside from that, the dev team is busy polishing up Kaylee. As reported last time, this is not exactly exciting work but its the type of thing where doing it right instills a certain pride and is critical to making EE what it is.
Here’s just a snippet from our internal task list:
- the fields on publish stacked side by side needs some fine-tuning visually FIX IT!
- the non publish tabs don’t look spiffy… FIX IT!
- ping tab has “select/deselect” that doesn’t work like the rest of the CP. Lets put it into a table and make it work like the others FIX IT!
- “I just noticed, and I can’t believe I only just noticed this, that our tabs are not block links, you have to actually click the text.” FIX IT!
- publish page spring loaded field drags FIX IT!
- Make the upload path database fields 150 chars in length. FIX IT!
- Not using “packed” javascript versions FIX IT!
For those of you wondering, the FIX IT! is definitely a reference to Oscar Roger’s strategy for fixing the economy. Turns out Oscar’s vociferous approach is also appropriate to software development.
Take it one step at a time. Identify the problem, FIX IT, identify another problem, FIX IT! Repeat as necessary until its all FIXED! - Oscar Rogers (2:15 mark)
There is a good chance that subsequent updates will be “Oscar like”. That’s my gentle way of telling you that from this point until the beta is ready we will not be releasing any new information regarding 2.0. We’ll continue to report on progress regularly and be as transparent as possible about how things are going (good, bad, or “meh”), but we will not be disclosing any new 2.0 info until people have the opportunity to apply for the beta. Our focus is a 100% on transitioning Kaylee from “programmer friendly Developer Preview” to “Web Professional friendly Beta 1”. Thanks for understanding.
The next update will be on Tuesday, May 19th. See you on the forums!
