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Ticket: publisher for ee3
| Status | Resolved |
| Add-on / Version | Publisher 1.6.12 |
| Severity | |
| EE Version | 3.4 |
Matthias Ballmann
Jul 12, 2016dear boldminded,
we are german designers using ee since many years and are in the ellis lab’s focus group. since every website we made in the last years uses multi language content our whole website building depends on publisher.
even with ee3 in beta we watched the developers reacting to the new version as we know that many of our clients would love the cleaner design of ee3 and like to upgrade as soon as possible. we were surprised to learn that the adaption of ee3 inside the developer community was pretty slow compared to other cms like wordpress or drupal.
now we have the situation that many clients ask us repeatingly for a timetable to upgrade to ee3 because of the really great reviews but we cannot give them any perspective because some key modules aren’t updated yet even that it’s almost a year since the first version of ee3.
regarding your amazing publisher plugin we have eleven client’s websites depending on it and five of them will update in the next weeks.
we noticed that you change your red ee3-warning on the supportpage – instead of “early summer of 2016” it now reads “in 2016” which makes us panic!
we already have to fight with EVERY client to use ee instead of wordpress, drupal or the very popular typo3/neos but without knowing exact release dates we cannot give them production/upgrade timetables which means …
– clients will cancel their business with us
– clients persist on changing the cms towards wordpress or typo3
– we can no longer bring new clients to ee because we cannot offer them a multi language solution
– we cannot update even our own website which depends also on publisher
therefor i would like to realize you that a release date for publisher is very critical to our business as well as the success of ee here in germany in particular.
thank you
and kind regards,
matthias
BoldMinded (Brian)
Matthias, thanks for the kind words about my add-ons. Yes I changed the release date because “summer” ends at the end of August, which is just a few weeks away. Unfortunately I’m not going to be able to release Publisher in that time. A Fall release is more likely at this point. I’m sorry the delay is affecting your business, but I can assure you I am dedicated to releasing it. I work 40 hours a week at a day job and all my Publisher work is done in the evenings after work, so that can lead to 50-60 hour weeks easily, which can be very mentally draining and taxing on family life. The reason its taking so long is because its basically a re-write. Every file and every line of code is getting looked at and most likely refactored to take advantage of the new stuff in EE3, so its like writing the add-on from the ground up again.
For what its worth, from a content editing perspective, EE2 is not that much different than EE3. Most of EE3’s improvements were under the hood and in the CP. There isn’t any reason a site can’t be started on EE2 now and upgraded later to EE3. Publisher’s upgrade process will be seamless so you won’t lose any data or have to redo templates.
Side note: I feel your pain about Typo3. I used it once a few years ago and wanted to slit my wrists. It is simply the worst piece of software I’ve ever used and don’t understand why so many people are drawn to it.