We really appreciate any and all involvement in the K2 community. Without your efforts, K2 would be entirely irrelevant.
That said, if you are adding things to the Wiki, please add them to the wiki and not simply link to sources outside of it. If you want to simply link to other resources, do it on the Other Resources page please, otherwise the wiki ends up being cluttered with pages pointing in all kinds of directions, rather than being as fast and easy to use as possible.
Thanks, and keep on a rockin'.
I announced this on the forums a little while back, but it just occured to me I never got around to posting about it on here.
We've ditched the first wiki we had and moved to a Stikipad account. It's much more inviting to use, and I hope you'll make it feel welcome.
K2's been on a minor hiatus, which you may have noticed due to the lack of updates to the SVN. I finally picked up my text editor again this weekend and got around to tweaking some of the code here and there. Currently my main goal is to get rolling archives and livesearch to work together as well as implement this old navigation system mockup. It'll take a good deal of effort from me though, so I can't promise a date for its completion.
In other good news, I asked Steve Lam if he would be interested in coming on board to help us out, since he's always improving out stuff on the side anyway. So expect to see him throwing some stuff on the SVN in the near future.
Other than that, the bug tracker and forums is still where you get in touch with us, depending on what you need of course.
PS: We won't carry comments on this blog from this point forward, since they always end up in spam and support fests anyway.
Recently there was an incident on the WordPress Support forums, where a K2 user asked the broader WordPress community for an assist with a problem that person was having. This request was met with a less than amiable response, which in turn led me to seek out the WordPress Support Maven, Podz to discuss what had happened, and more importantly what we could do to ensure future exchanges will be much more positive.
Podz and I had a lengthy discussion where we each voiced our concerns and hopes for the future; in this conversation we came to some basic conclusions:
- K2 is much more than your average theme, it is a mod (as Mike and I labeled it almost from the beginning) and as such is probably not the easiest theme for a new user to try and install. We are always doing our best to make it a simple, easy process. Currently however, the code is in beta, which means bugs and changes.
- Currently the support personnel over at the WordPress Support Forums are not adequately equipped to support K2 users, which is no fault of their own. Rather, the people who are familiar enough with K2 to offer real support are going to be here on our forums.
- Historically and for various reasons the support for Kubrick (before it was integrated with WordPress that is) as well as K2 has been moved away from the WordPress forums. While this has brought about a pool of indepth knowledge for K2 it has had the effect of reducing the spread of that knowledge in the forums. This is unfortunate, but a fact of life. We must make a concerted effort to move past this, for the benefit of both K2, and WordPress.
The Good News
Thankfully each of these points, are easy to address; in fact they are actively being addressed right now. What we would like to see happen would be the following:
- We here on the K2 support forums field not only support questions for K2, but also we try and answer any WordPress related questions when they come up, instead of simply telling them to check the WordPress Support forums. If we expect Podz and crew to help us, then we must be willing to reciprocate and help them; it is only fair. For this purpose, we set up a WordPress-specific set of forums when we first launched getk2.com.
- Those of us who are confident in our K2-foo should try and participate in the K2-related threads on the WordPress Forums. This will allow for people to be helped, and the support personnel over there to get up to speed much faster.
- People on both sides should remember that we are one big community, not two warring factions.
So yeah, that's it for now. Let us know (as always in a civil tone) what you think/how you feel in the comments.
I just wanted to give a quick update to all of you chomping at the bit for new features and bug fixes.
The dev team (Mike, Zeo and myself) have been quietly squashing bugs, and working on features while we wait for the transition to getk2.com to finish. Once our svn migration is complete there will be a flood of commits, and I am assuming, a release.
Thanks for your patience during this transition, it is going to be a great thing in the long run for us, and more importantly for you, the user.
Werd.