Garden & Vanilla 2 on GitHub Now
After a very long week of scrambling, Garden & Vanilla 2 are now available on GitHub.
Things you need to know:
1. Garden & Vanilla 2 are currently beta products that contain bugs and incomplete features.
2. Garden & Vanilla 2 should not currently be placed on production servers.
3. There is a first draft of documentation available at gardenplatform.com.
4. You can not currently upgrade your Vanilla 1 database to Vanilla 2 with the code at GitHub (you’ll be able to soon).
5. If you start to use this code, be prepared to erase your Garden/Vanilla database a few times before the codebase is final. Data WILL be lost.
About GitHub
We are absolute newbies to GitHub. We’ve heard fantastical and amazing things about it, and we can’t wait to start working with all of you on patches, fixes, merges, branches, and all that awesome stuff. Please be patient with us as we learn the subtle nuances of GitHub.
Contributor’s Agreements
We’ve been speaking with a number of lawyers and leaders in the open source world since we got to TechStars. These people have helped us to decide upon releasing the code under the GPLv2, just like Vanilla 1 was. They’ve also recommended that we have contributors sign a contributor agreement before we take any code from anyone. So, if you find a bug and want to fix it, you will have to agree to our contributor agreement first. We will be using the industry standard Sun contributor’s agreement. We will be announcing the URL where you can review and agree to the contributor’s agreement next week. You can also just contact us directly and we’ll get the agreement to you. You can review our contributor’s agreement here. Please note that you must have an account at the Lussumo community forum in order to contribute.
Issue Tracking
If you download the code and encounter errors, please use the issue tracker at GitHub. We will be retiring the old one and moving our existing issues over to GitHub this week.
What Next?
Sleep. Glorious Sleep.
Kickass! Awesome work thus far
Great news! Sleep well my Canadian friend =). Thank you.
But I have problem with downloading: “Hardcore Archiving Action” for a long time and nothing happens -(
That happened to me last night, too. Just wait a bit and then try again. It’s a GitHub bug, I think..
Major congrats on getting this to release!
Thanks!
yeh wiked thanks mark, brillant work, big thank you from everyone in the Uk
I’m loving the framework so far. Its almost one step up from codeigniter which i think is perfect for me. The ability to have all the plugins, user, permissions, other applications automated for me is a huge benefit. Hope the documentation is coming along. Especially the part about single signon. The ability to integrate the forum into other websites is a major factor in choosing a forum. I would imagine with the new framework there will be less of a need to hack parts of the code. For future applications i will definitely look into Garden framework more.
Where is the place for reporintg bugs, suggestions, etc?
http://issues.gardenframework.com/
http://github.com/lussumo/Garden/issues
@S – Please use the github issue tracker now. I’m going to be taking the old one down.
Hey, how would i go about contacting you directly mark?
downloading. love what you’re doing.
@John – Beware, the master version is quite buggy. We’re working through all of the bugs to get it stable. Next week we should have a much more stable release available.
Personally, I would have liked to see Vanilla 2 built on top of some more mature web framework instead of seeing the wheel getting reinvented again. I mean don’t get me wrong, but building and maintaining good web framework is a lot of work, if you really want it to succeed. So how do you justify creating a new framework instead of taking advantage of an existing one?
I did read through your mission statement to get some hints, but its not very specific about this matter.
Hi Ismo, I built this framework because none of the other frameworks could do what I needed, and I didn’t want to start a fork of some other framework which I would eventually end up completely rewriting anyway.
Also, it’s not like I’m writing everything from the ground up. Vanilla 2 & Garden are built on many other solid open source projects: jQuery, Smarty, HtmlPurifier, phpass, and phpmailer to name a few.
Nice, great work !