We are working hard to get §0.11 ready, it takes a long time to finish but in the meanwhile some updates about the commissions program:

Trails

We hear you. Trails is still slightly buggy and hard to work with at the moment, and hence have not attracted tons of uses yet. We were hoping to stabilize it earlier but unfortunately we are overwhelmed with work on §0.11.

We have decided to allow you some more time to work on your trails so for the upcoming deadline you will not be required to present your final trail but only a draft showing where you want to take it and a description of your trail proposal. You will then be able to further develop your trail and have us here to help you. We prefer your final trails to use the §0.11 architecture as it would be much more stable and would probably make for better works. If you are comfortable with trails as it is, you are welcomed to post your complete trail with your application, but what we’re saying is that you don’t have to.

Spaces

The space commission program has been going well and we are pretty happy with the developer API we have going. Yet it is not yet as developed as we would like it to be (it is in fact the work we’re focusing on for 0.11). The latest release of Greasemonkey has thrown us back a bit too as the way we were debugging spaces has been deprecated as it introduced a security hole. We are working on creating a Javascript based sandbox now, so we are in sync with the latest GM release (for now if you develop using the GM Version 0.7.20070607.0 as long as you test your code on your own sites, you have nothing to worry about).

The main issue is: we are two weeks away from getting a developer release of 0.11 out, and we want you guys to try it before the deadline. Are there §ers out there who could use an extension of the commissions program deadline? Do you guys need another two weeks maybe so you can get more sense for the API and try the developers release?

Sign up to our discussion list and let us know if you guys need some more time!

It’s been a while since we published the last version, and we’ve been busy working on a couple of parallel developments lately. Since they are yet not ready to publish we wanted to share them with you so you will know what you can anticipate in the coming few weeks.