Re: What's next

Hey guys,

Adding to what Bharat said, I have a couple other big things I'd like
to see, too:

- Add a few tweaks to our resize and thumb generation.  In particular,
it'd be nice to allow metadata stripping, progressive encoding, and
jpg conversion.  Also wrapped up in here is a bit more work with
imagemagick compatibility for some users' installations (disable
multi-threading, make version number searching more robust).
- Do a Flash->HTML5 conversion.  Specifically, swap out uploadify, and
add Flowplayer 5.  We can't *remove* Flowplayer 3 as then we'll be
breaking flv support, but I've seen some demos where people run both
(use HTML5 version unless video is Flash, then fall back).
- Remove the admin theme, and use overlays/dialogs instead.

The last point probably needs a bit more elaboration...

Here's my thought: if we compare Gallery's admin approach to that of
Drupal and WordPress, we seem to *mostly* fit that of Drupal.
Specifically, we embed a lot of admin functionality in the main UI
with context menus, etc.  I think this is a great fit to Gallery.
However, the admin back area remains detached, somewhat more like
WordPress.  In my opinion, this seems to disrupt the cohesive feel of
Gallery, especially once you use a non-Wind theme (since there are
zero contributed admin themes AFAIK).

It seems like most of the basic building blocks are already in place,
and we can even leverage tabs to go between admin screens (again,
copying from Drupal).  I'd bet we can do this in a way that mostly
maintains backward compatibility with existing themes, too.  And if it
does break old themes a little bit, it makes sense to do this at the
same time as the jQuery update.

Thoughts?

Take care,
Shad


On 22 February 2013 18:19, Bharat Mediratta <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hey guys.  3.0.5 has escaped, so I'm thinking about what's up for the next
> release.
>
> Shad and I seem to have some momentum right now so I'd like to do some
> significant and non-backwards-compatible changes in this upcoming release
> and use it to kick off the 3.1 branch.  Here are the major targets:
>
> 1) Update to the latest jQuery and jQuery UI
> 2) Update to Kohana 3.x
>
> We've done the bulk of the work for #1 above, but there will be a long tail
> of finishing touches.  Haven't even started on #2.
>
> What other significant changes would you like to see happen in 3.1?  Now is
> a good time to speak up.
>
> -Bharat
>
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