Michelle's Blog

I've had http://michellecox.name for a while but never knew what to do with it. I don't need another place to blog as I barely (read: really don't) keep up with the places I already have to blog. I already have a family website so it wasn't useful for that, either. I bought it on a whim and was debating just dropping it again when it expired.

Despite the fact that Advanced Forum for D5 is alpha and the D6 version has a warning not to use it, there seems to be an awful lot of people using this module. While I've had a "to do" post up on the DruBB group for some time, I haven't written out my "plan of attack". So I decided to write up a roadmap so people can have an idea of where I'm headed. Some of this is straight copied from my post on the drubb group and some is new. Hopefully it will be helpful to people using the module. I'm going to enable comments for the moment but please do not use this for posting support/feature requests. Use the issue queue.

This is the plan:

1. Fix the known D5 bugs and do another alpha.
2. Fix the known D6 bugs and do a first alpha.
3. Do the code clean up section to make it easier for others to help.
4. Do the "Improving what's there" section.
5. Adding the new features in whatever order strikes my fancy. (Hey, life can't be totally planned. ;)
6. More alphas will come out as needed. I try to keep them coming on a regular basis to discourage people from using the devs as my dev versions tend to be broken.
7. Once I've added all the features that I plan to put in 1.x, I will make betas.
8. Much testing will ensue. Simpletest, maybe? I haven't looked into that whole testing business, yet.
9. RCs until it's all peachy.
10. Official 1.x release. Yay!
11. 2.x branch will start to keep up with core forum changes. Exactly when this will happen and what shape this will take is still up in the air. See the discussion.

This has nothing to do with Drupal but I'm trying to help get the word out. Kelly, a member of a Wisconsin forum I'm on runs a fish rescue / breeding business. She ran into bad luck with a scamming contractor and now the electric company is going to shut off her power in 2 days. The 12,000 fish she is currently caring for will all die when this happens.

About a week before Drupalcon, I was deleting a spam comment on groups.drupal.org and noticed it wanted me to report it to something called "Mollom". Suspecting this was the secret new anti spam program I'd been hearing rumors about for months, I did a search and found the beta site. The site was open to the public, said it was running a public beta, and had all the steps to get started.

I know this is bad timing given that I've just released two unfinished modules and have a ton of support requests backlogged. But I'm getting overwhelmed with everything. I keep turning down paid work to work on advforum and advprofile for free because I simply don't have enough time for everything on top of being a full time mom.