Now that we seem to have a new leadership, I think a summary of what needs to be done has to be made and organized into a roadmap.
That to avoid the new directors hanging out aimlessly closing petitions and waiting for someone to start something.
As far as I know the following NEED action:
- PHP 8 compatibility (this is a very complex thing that people are working on on GitHub, what is ready need to be scheduled for release and then released)
- update to the TinyMCE editor (@anon71687268 and @joyously were working on that and I have seen a post on the forum where improvements on accessibility for the editor where proposed)
- fix for PHPMailer (this is what broke the CP 1.4, and we need to finalize it)
- setting a roadmap to land on a potential V2
- we have a plugin to integrate the directory in core, BEFORE ADVERTISING WE HAVE IT we need to discuss the theme directory and prepare it, that way the plugin will work at its full potential and we will be able to reach more devs and show them they have a place for their plugins and themes.
- we need to demonstrate to people who went away that we are serious about DOING THINGS and we need to regain those people’s trust and cooperation - THIS IS PARAMOUNT - we lost so many valuable talents because of the tendency sto stall.
- We also need a sort of shared decentralized responsibility of the assets where the assets are paid for and managed by various people and where access keys are shared, so that if someone needs to step back there will be someone to take on.
- we also need to plan a real marketing strategy that helps us to make CP more known.
I am pinging the directors so that they can chime in if I forgot something. @timkaye @viktor @williampatton @james
I think writing a post with a “possible roadmap” on the blog can help make CP known to the public, but we then need to deliver on it. This means we have to selct what to include and deliver in the times we set for each task.
Directors should be there to coordinate the effort and push to get things done, so I think their opinion is important on priorities.