Vb 4 compatibility pledge

[Floris]

As a user who maintains many many forums, I am certainly not interested in the "intentions" of an author. Yes, it's nice to know he or she will continue to work on their releases here, but that being said. When I get here I want to go and find a mod, and download it and use it. The history or it's unknown future at that point is not relevant. We just want to run the forum.

And I also wouldn't want to install code from an author who 'guesses' their product will work with vB4, I want facts, not false promises. Maybe the addon becomes obsolete, maybe the author can't figure out how to do it for version 4. etc. We would have been waiting for all that time, for nothing. I rather just see if a mod says: works with: 3.5-3.8, 4.0. After v4 has been released.

Of course, that said, I am all for a system actually where there is just 1 release, perhaps with mulitple attachments (one for say exception 3.5 or 4.0) but have that one release in the header of the product say: works with 3.5.3 to 3.8.4, and 4.0.

A wordpress like solution is much needed for vBulletin to be honest.
i want to go in, search through resources, install them with a click after reading up on them, have a one click upgrade button, and get notification of it being outdated (just finished some code that lets you check for outdated actually.. but anyway). I would also like to see one of my 3.5 products that i never upgraded or finished to become part of vBulletin.org's official addon (yes, i want vborg official addons for developers hehe) that allows a one click "build product.zip" that grabs the .xml, images, and product files and zips it up (i will write this out later).

Anyway, I hope version 4 allows vborg to upgrade to v4, and introduce dramatic changes to their community, so they're on top of their game again and the resource site that lets users work on stuff as a team (see wayne's thread) and get consistency in the products, and have addons and translations and such be part of the product, rather then their individual releases, etc.

I know, time, resources, and all that .. the staff here works for free (to my knowledge) so how dare we ask for them to put all that time in it - but .. we can still wish right?