12-06-2016, 08:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-17-2017, 07:08 PM by Dean Roddey.)
[OK, 5.1 is out so I'm closing and un-sticking this one and creating a new one.]
This thread is for discussion of the 5.1 release and the betas leading up to it. Actual releases are in the first post of the Official 5.1 Beta Releases Thread. That thread isn't for discussion, so do that here.
5.1 is pretty simple, though it will be significant. Unlike 5.0 which was a monster, this one is considerably less intense, but it will be equally important to the future of the product and the company. There are two primary goals for 5.1:
There are some other, smaller things to get done, and some other longer term (probably 5.2) things to sort of plan towards.
This thread is for discussion of the 5.1 release and the betas leading up to it. Actual releases are in the first post of the Official 5.1 Beta Releases Thread. That thread isn't for discussion, so do that here.
5.1 is pretty simple, though it will be significant. Unlike 5.0 which was a monster, this one is considerably less intense, but it will be equally important to the future of the product and the company. There are two primary goals for 5.1:
- To create an HTML based client that works with the room configuration data, i.e. a fixed function client that understands the room configuration data and exposes it.
- The other is a skunk works project we aren't ready to discuss yet. It could be a major game changer, though there's some chance it could turn out to be infeasible for some reason. Some significant investigation has been done and some preliminary work has been started, but we need to get further along on it before we'll know. If it works as planned I think it will blow you guys away.
There are some other, smaller things to get done, and some other longer term (probably 5.2) things to sort of plan towards.
- We need to get the driver documentation ported over to the new HTML format
- It would be nice to expand the room configuration some more to support more functionality for less technical users (and in the new HTML client.)
- We obviously need a more full featured HTML client next, so of course in the work on the room config based client, we'll be thinking about how to move forward and gathering experience required to do that.
Dean Roddey
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