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The over-arching theme of our focus in Q4 can be summarized as: | The over-arching theme of our focus in Q4 can be summarized as: | ||
== | == Pave the way for a better SUMO platform == | ||
SUMO is build on a two-year-old version of TikiWiki (version 1.10, a beta version). The immaturity of the platform has made it more complicated to add new features to SUMO and we have instead spent a great deal of our time working on performance and security improvements and bug fixes. In order to build a better foundation for SUMO, we need to upgrade and ultimately rewrite parts of the platform to ensure higher code quality and happier SUMO developers. | SUMO is build on a two-year-old version of TikiWiki (version 1.10, a beta version). The immaturity of the platform has made it more complicated to add new features to SUMO and we have instead spent a great deal of our time working on performance and security improvements and bug fixes. In order to build a better foundation for SUMO, we need to upgrade and ultimately rewrite parts of the platform to ensure higher code quality and happier SUMO developers. | ||
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The next steps would then be to [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/TikiWikiUpgrade upgrade to Tiki 4.1/5.1] and rewrite the bad parts of the platform to improve code quality. However, these steps are unlikely to happen in Q4 given our limited time and resources. | The next steps would then be to [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/TikiWikiUpgrade upgrade to Tiki 4.1/5.1] and rewrite the bad parts of the platform to improve code quality. However, these steps are unlikely to happen in Q4 given our limited time and resources. | ||
== | == Grow our SUMO community == | ||
This has been an ongoing focus of the SUMO project in 2009 and will continue to be the case in 2010: a healthy and strong support community paves the way for a good web experience for our users. The specific focus in Q4 should be to fix bugs and add features to SUMO that has the strongest potential of having a positive impact on the community volunteers' experience on the platform. | This has been an ongoing focus of the SUMO project in 2009 and will continue to be the case in 2010: a healthy and strong support community paves the way for a good web experience for our users. The specific focus in Q4 should be to fix bugs and add features to SUMO that has the strongest potential of having a positive impact on the community volunteers' experience on the platform. | ||