05-03-2016, 01:35 PM
We are looking for as much feedback as possible as we look towards a UserSpice 4.1 release.
We have a MASSIVE list of things that have been tweaked and changed. Most of these things are little tweaks to make UserSpice more usable and flexible. Here are some highlights.
- Composer (which makes up 3/4 of UserSpice's size and 90{3bc1fe685386cc4c3ab89a3f76566d8931e181ad17f08aed9ad73b30bf28114d} of the files) is probably going away in favor of a simpler approach to its features. Of course, you can always install it yourself, but only a very tiny minority of people are using it.
- We have provided some VERY cool tools which allow you to make code changes that will not be overwritten by our updates.
- The biggest change, however, regards updates. The development team (yeah, we're a team now!) really sees UserSpice as a fantastic tool for application development. We want people to continue to develop on UserSpice and know that it's going to be stable and secure. As such we're moving to a two level model.
There will essentially be a "stable" (the name will be decided later) release where you KNOW that you can develop on it and we're not going to muck with it. You will get bug fixes. You will get security updates, but you won't get this constant barrage of new features as we try to make the system better. You won't have to go on the roller coaster ride of development with us. Every 6 months or so we'll release an upgrade if you want to go to the next "stable release" or you can stay where you're at knowing that we'll offer security updates as they come out.
There will also be a pro version...which unlike most pro versions, will still be FREE. However, you'll get the latest and greatest updates and features as they come out.
So, the big question is...what's really important to YOU when it comes to UserSpice? What do YOU want to see in the future?
We have a MASSIVE list of things that have been tweaked and changed. Most of these things are little tweaks to make UserSpice more usable and flexible. Here are some highlights.
- Composer (which makes up 3/4 of UserSpice's size and 90{3bc1fe685386cc4c3ab89a3f76566d8931e181ad17f08aed9ad73b30bf28114d} of the files) is probably going away in favor of a simpler approach to its features. Of course, you can always install it yourself, but only a very tiny minority of people are using it.
- We have provided some VERY cool tools which allow you to make code changes that will not be overwritten by our updates.
- The biggest change, however, regards updates. The development team (yeah, we're a team now!) really sees UserSpice as a fantastic tool for application development. We want people to continue to develop on UserSpice and know that it's going to be stable and secure. As such we're moving to a two level model.
There will essentially be a "stable" (the name will be decided later) release where you KNOW that you can develop on it and we're not going to muck with it. You will get bug fixes. You will get security updates, but you won't get this constant barrage of new features as we try to make the system better. You won't have to go on the roller coaster ride of development with us. Every 6 months or so we'll release an upgrade if you want to go to the next "stable release" or you can stay where you're at knowing that we'll offer security updates as they come out.
There will also be a pro version...which unlike most pro versions, will still be FREE. However, you'll get the latest and greatest updates and features as they come out.
So, the big question is...what's really important to YOU when it comes to UserSpice? What do YOU want to see in the future?