2017 Jul 27
Tiny but eventually not so tiny update as the CHANGELOG shows. Anyway there is no new functionality, only improvements and bug fixes.
As the team is reduced since a lot of months/years, I decided to reduced the scope in terms of development as I'm the only dev still in activity and I have not more much courage to start (relatively) big projects[1] — yes, we have a bus factor of 1 in Dotclear.
So exit the REST API I wish to develop — but a third party plugin is in development to provide this feature —, exit also the integration of the Twig template engine, exit also a lot of tickets which stayed opened without anybody to take care of them.
I will continue to maintain Dotclear, indeed, in order to add some tiny missing features as UTF8-MB4 support for MySQL, a more robust password management and this will be included in the next 2.13 release which will need, at least, PHP 5.5 version — it's time to forget the older PHP 5.3 not more maintained now.
Note
[1] First it's not funny at all to develop alone, second the lack of code review is as far as I know dangerous
Comments
Courage Franck!
Dear Franck
Many thanks for all your effort.
It sounds like that some have left the team and you are more or less on your own.
Unfortunately, I'm no programmer and can't be from physical help that is needed.
I'm happy with DC as it is. DC does everything for me. I don't need new features. As long as DC works with third-party software (PHP, database and Javascript), this is enough (at least for me).
I love Dotclear because it doesn't change. It's the same look and workflow as the one that I had 9 years ago when I started to use version 2. This reminds me on Wikipedia. What a drama if Wikipedia would change.
I believe to remember that Olivier left DC for Mozilla. But look at Mozilla in what stage they are. The changes between version 2 and 3 put off the real fans when they were looking for crowds. I beg you, leave the crowds for Wordpress.