First off, welcome to the new group, MooTools Users! This is the
place for users of all skill levels to discuss the framework and their
use of it.
Frequent visitors to
http://mootools.net have probably noticed a few
changes.
Among them a complete redesign, new accounts for MooTools at
Lighthouse and Github, and the 1.2 docs moved to
http://docs.mootools.net.
You might also notice that the site isn't fully functional yet. It
will be soon. :)
Because of the increasing popularity of this project of ours, we have
been under an increasing amount of stress to keep the various parts of
this site running in good order. You may have experienced downtime
relative to MooTools recently. We understand that many developers
utilize MooTools in critical components of their projects, and such
downtime is completely unacceptable.
To solve these issues for the 1.2 release, we have moved our critical
components off-site to the best provider of each component, granting
the MooTools users with the highest possible uptime of all areas of
the site. A major benefit of this move is being able to completely
reinvent the way we interact with our community of users (aka you
guys!).
Many developers have also been anxiously awaiting the 1.2 release so
they could benefit from the extended features without risking their
jobs on a beta release. As such, we have decided to release 1.2 along
with the new features of our site without waiting for everything to be
100% complete. The finishing touches which remain are not related to
the critical functions of the site, including the blog and some links
on the main page.
Here are the major changes broken down by topic.
== Git ==
The most exciting change for the 1.2 release is the switch from
Subversion to Git. Git is a huge step forward to our development
model, allowing everyone who wants to contribute to MooTools the
ability to create their very own fork. Each fork can then be merged
into the main core as seen fit or used on its own as an alternate
version of MooTools. This allows us to release faster, iterate to
better versions and better handle the contributions of the community.
This allows would-be contributors to play in their own sandbox without
worrying about whether or not their suggestions are appropriate. So
get forking!
Please note that the Subversion repository will no longer keep up with
the changes to MooTools. You will have to check out the Git
repository for that.
You can see the git repository here:
http://github.com/mootools/mootools-core
To keep the core clean and mean, we have created a separate repository
for plugins which don't belong in core (including some plugins which
have been part of the core distribution until now). This is a perfect
place to stash all the nifty classes you have sitting in your project
directories.
Link to the plugin hub:
http://github.com/mootools/mootools-more
You'll also notice that the download page has been split into two
pages accordingly.
== Bugtracking by Lighthouse ==
We have abandoned our Trac, which has been giving us problems over the
past weeks, for Lighthouse. Lighthouse allows us to integrate our
ticketing system with our new Github account and should provide
everyone with a comparable experience to our previous system.
We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to Thomas Aylott for his
help in the switch to Github and moving the Trac tickets to
Lighthouse.
You can visit the new Lighthouse account here:
http://mootools.lighthouseapp.com/
== New MooTools User Group ==
As part of our offsite initiative, we have moved the community forum
to Google, where it hopefully will not crash and die. Note that this
group is *not* a replacement for the forum, which will be back
shortly.
== Join Us on IRC ==
While we've been partying in the IRC room for quite some time, the IRC
link to #mootools on Freenode has been added to the main page of
MooTools.net. If you have not visited us there before, please feel
free to stop by to ask your questions or just hang out. We love
chatting with new users.
== Shiny New Docs ==
The 1.11 docs have been moved to
http://docs111.mootools.net.
Conversely, the 1.2 docs have been moved from
http://docs12b.mootools.net
to the main docs subdomain (
http://docs.mootools.net).
== More to Come ==
We'll be finishing off the new site and I'll be keeping you updated
with more details once the blog gets back online. A complete
changelog and other important information is on its way. So stay
tuned!
== Thanks! ==
On behalf of the entire MooTools team, we'd like to extend special
thanks to Valerio, for working his ass off for Mootools. If you get
the chance, make sure you thank him (once he regains consciousness).