We’re late at releasing Typo 5. By 4 days as far as I know. Don’t think we’ve just been slacking, that’s false. Truth is out there used to say agent Mulder, and I do agree with him tonight. I’ve always been a Danna Scully fan. So what ?
We had to choose either to release an unready buggy Typo 5.0 just to keep the delays, or let you wait a few more days and give you a cool nice Xmas present. We choosed the latter without hesitation. So what happened ?
I’ve spent my sunday evening and my monday morning porting the 117 themes from dev411 Typo themes viewer to the new version. Most of them were 2.6.0 compliant and they all needed some tweaks. That’s done, and they will be online in time for the release. I’m now porting a bunch of 63 wordpress themes. Feel free to help, it’s easy, all you need is some HTML knowledge, a text editor, Firefox and Firebug.
We’ve added 2 new themes as default, replacing the old Azure with Standard Issue, and adding Dirtylicious as a secondary theme. Scribbish stays in the default themes for backward compatibility. There are too many blogs using it as a default theme to just remove it that way. We’ve also added a theme editor, useful for people who don’t want to mess with FTP to edit their templates.
We’ve been bumping into some huge issues with Rails 2.0 caching and Piers is working on it to get everything fine before we release. There are still a few minor bugs left now, and they will be fixed as well before release time.
That’s all folks, stay tuned.
Yes, you’re late :P
But as you said, it’s maybe better this way, especially if you’re going to release a more mature product. I’ve been using Typo for a few months on my site and I’m looking forward to this new release. Just take your time and release when you feel you’re ready: I’ll always be ready to thank you and praise your hard work.
Keep it up guys.
Thanks for the update!! I’ll look for it next week. I’m even considering going head to head with my wife to help you out, but she’s meaner (IMHO) and I’m not sure I want to face that with her sick as well.
Just for information, we’ve been working on the release itself since yesterday, which means it should happen soon.
Just a few bugs to fix due to third party software.