An update on whats going on

Basicly, were are nearing the final stages of handing over the project to a group of coders so they will be able to continue the work. We would like to keep area51 open but matthew wants to use his license else where, since hies no longer directly involved. (That means we are sans one vB license for area51).

The uShop code is just about ready for a BETA test, it just needs to be packaged, documented, etc. Which will be the responsability of the new coders.

I will be announcing them over the next few days as we finalize some things.

[Revan]

Originally Posted by Regs

Thanks Revan...

At this point, do you think it would not be better to just forget about Zachery organising this and just have a bunch of you do it on your own?

It seems that there was a lot of momentum for that before Zachery stuck his head into the discussion.

Are you suggesting mutiny?
It sounded to me like you wanted me to shanghai the hack and leave him out of it, which won't do because it IS still his mod now that Link backed out.
The organising of a meetup, the maintenance of the Beta board and such matters (hopefully) will be left in my care so that we can see a move on this sometime before vB10 is released.

Originally Posted by Regs

I would be willing to throw in $200USD to the pot of donations that were growing.

*chokes on drink*
I knew it was a good thing that I signed up for this gig...Har Har Har

Originally Posted by Regs

Thanks again Revan, it must be frustrating for you as well

After the above, it certainly is

[Xplorer4x4]

I can;t do much coding, but I would be willing to help test it.

[Dan]

Currently from what I know we already have a good tester base at the dev site and everyone will be happy once it's completed for now I just suggest you wait untill the project is completed.

Just for a little update, dev site is running an RC of 3.5 and the only issue I see atm is a few errors in the code but it looks as if it mostly works. Once those bugs are worked out we should get a stable release.

Note I am not one of the coders on the project but one of the testers and this is what is going on so far with the project.

[Sooner95]

Thx for the update Dan.

[Lottis]

Thanx fore the update Dan and Revan.
And good luck with this project Revan.

[VBUsers]

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thanks for the info cant wait for it to come back

[lairnoc]

Cheers guyz.. keep up the good work. and for the rest to say it in game style. its done wenn its done lolz

Better a good hack than a quick buggy release!!!


go guyz go

[kylek]

Yes Virginia, there really is a Ushop!!!

Thanks for the updates!!

[Revan]

In case you didn't read Zak's thread, due to the fact that he's extremely busy, he gave me the responsibility of organising the meet.
So far I have been contacted by only one coder, and I know there's at least one more that has yet to contact me. It would be wrong to complain about this seeing as it's christmas time in every part of the world that celebrates it, so I think we can cut them some slack.
What I have yet to recieve is Admin and FTP access to the demo board. This board cannot go public at this time as per the vBulletin Licence Agreement. Matt pulled the plug on his licence, meaning until we can agree on a way to recieve donations, we are stuck without a public demo board.
The problem about donations is that Zak doesn't want the donations to go through his Business account, as that has nothing to do with Project uCS. And without a credit card, Paypal imposes a montly limit to the funds that can be recieved, as well as "Accept one, accept all" meaning that as soon as you accept the first payment, you automatically accept all other payments.
What Im gonna do today is create a new GMail address, and sign up to paypal using this. I will then PM the password for the email and Paypal account to him, and if he agrees we will be in business for taking donations that will go towards paying for a board licence.
As soon as that is in place, we will remove the password restrictions on this board, and you will be able to continue to post there.

As for the remaining coders, as I said I only know of one name and I will PM him after I submit this post. And when I finally have all coders' PMs in my inbox, I will get right on setting up the point of contact and mass PM them for them to verify that they will be able to show.

Im terribly sorry for the delays, I am no less annoyed by this than you are, believe me.

[Xplorer4x4]

It would be wrong to complain about this seeing as it's christmas time in every part of the world that celebrates it, so I think we can cut them some slack.

Look's to me like there was alot more gratitude then complaints as of late. :ermm: I think you have to atribute any complaints to Matt for abandoning ship so long ago with out a simple ocasional update.

I am just curious why you need a public test board? I offered to test and you said there were pleanty of testers.

Regardless keep up the good work, not just on uShop but your other hacks as well.