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== Pave the way for a better SUMO platform == | == Pave the way for a better SUMO platform == | ||
SUMO is | SUMO is built on a two-year-old version of TikiWiki (version 1.10, a beta version that never went GA). 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, as a result, happier SUMO developers. | ||
The goals of Q4 are just the first steps in the effort to improve the SUMO platform. However, during this effort, we will go from a "consumer" to an active participant of the Tiki community, which will hopefully lead to a much stronger collaboration. | The goals of Q4 are just the first steps in the effort to improve the SUMO platform. However, during this effort, we will go from a "consumer" to an active participant of the Tiki community, which will hopefully lead to a much stronger collaboration, resulting in improvements to the platform being assisted by the Tiki community as well. | ||
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. | 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. These steps are unlikely to happen in Q4 given our limited time and resources, but should be considered in the upcoming roadmap for 2010. | ||
== Grow our SUMO community == | == Grow our SUMO community == | ||