Hastymail2

Roadmap

      On June 1 the first beta release of the new Hastymail code was made available. Work remains on several areas and this is a testing release only. The primary focus of upcoming development is bug fixing, but there are a few systems that will continue to evolve during the beta release cycle.

- Themes
     New themes will be added and in doing so a review of the location of some page elements (site page class or in a template file) might result in some structural changes. Lots of style variations can be achieved with nothing more than editing the CSS files so it should be possible to create several themes during the beta release cycle.

- Plugins
     New development will continue in plugins. This will invariably cause the plugin API to change (for the better). There are several plugins in the works but mostly as examples of the system. The plugin API was designed to extend easily so we can continue to expand the ways that plugins can interact while still maintaining a consistent interface.

- Languages
     Most of the kinks are worked out of the interface translation system. The remaining language files from Hastymail 1 will be converted to work with the new code. Many string have changed however so porting the language from Hastymail 1 only translates about 100 of the 420 phrases. There are still a few strings hiding in the code that need pulled out and put into the language files (not many).

- Installation
     In addition to the installation scripts there are some CLI scripts to convert Hastymail 1 settings and contacts over to the new version.

    There will be no less than 2 more beta releases after which release candidates will be made available until we are ready for the first stable release. During the release candidate cycle changes will be kept minimal and only those that directly fix problems will be allowed. As development continues this page will be updated with the direction and goals of future versions.