Work has gone really well on M5 so far and the user features are now done. You can edit accounts, link characters to an account, go on LOA, nominate characters for awards and change site display options.

Given how fast it’s gone so far, I wouldn’t be surprised if M5 finishes up ahead of schedule. More coming on the changes so far soon.

Better late than never.

Just prior to pushing out the July development build, Nova crossed from M4 into M5.  Already this month, there’s been huge progress and we’re looking to finish M5 several weeks ahead of schedule, which is a nice change of pace after delivering M4 2 weeks behind schedule.  As of the July build, all site and data management features are done.  Character and user features are coming in the August build.  Without further ado, here is what was done in June.  This report covers revs 1073 through 1240.

Added:

• New methods in the Auth library for grabbing flags for sysadmin, game master and webmaster
• Posting requirement option to site settings
• Activity section to the ACP panel
• Milestone section to the ACP panel
• Lots of icons
• New method for counting unattended saved posts
• Manage posts
• Manage logs
• Manage news
• Manage comments
• Last update field to players, posts, logs and news tables
• Basic install data file
• Developer install data file
• Manage tour
• Login attempts code to prevent brute force attacks
• Links to pages to edit pages that have management sections
• Method to the Auth library for setting class variables

Updated:

• The get_player() method in the players model is simpler now and more robust
• Sliding panel got some work as well as the workflow handle with inbox and writing entry code
• User panel library got a method for handling the workflow bar
• Template changes for the new panel
• Genre files
• The get_post() method in the posts model is simpler now and more robust
• Login template now matches the default theme better
• Install template
• Tour model with methods for adding, editing and deleting
• jQuery UI to version 1.7.2
• Simplified language code in the view files
• Template files now declare a DTD of XHTML 1.1
• Installation process to check for successful completion of a step
• Write controller wasn’t checking for moderation status on posting items
• Documentation

Removed:

• jQuery EqualHeights plugins (no longer needed)

Fixed:

• IE bugs with the new panel
• Database issues with blank records
• Error with division by zero on the stats page
• Pagination problems