I spent several days planing and writing code for my feed importer add-on, which became now useless because it's already implemented in beta6.
Sorry to hear you wasted your time.
I think Xenforo is still having some sales because of the great addons that you and Jaxel are making
RIGHT NOW.
This community feels alive and that progress is being made because of the addon development.
I'm hoping Xenforo and Addon Developers can work together in a fair way.
Any type of roadmap would be great. Heck, you can
leave off dates.
I just want to know the meat & potatoes coming down the road.
That might help.
i'm "holding back" my real big add-ons (cms, gallery), but why not create already "small but useful" add-ons
That is really unfortunate.
CMS and Gallery: those are the two most popular requests.
I'll argue you should probably start now even if Xenforo is going to release their own Addon soon [here].
One thing to think about here.
vBulletin never really released any good MAJOR Addons.
They never released a popular ANYTHING ! The blog sucked, the CMS took 5 years and sucked, no Gallery, No Nuttin' . Essentially, the relationship between Addon makers and vBulletin was not rocky, because Addon makers were not competing against vBulletin.
I anticipate that Xenforo will be smarter than vBulletin and release MAJOR Addons.
I hope Xenforo + Developers can try to
avoid some catastrophes that might arise in 2011.
Unless a strategy is planned, I think there will be some pretty upset coders.
One thing I would fear would be say Jaxel getting really upset about xenforo stepping on his toes with no warnings, he gets upset and stops updating all his Addons. /shudder.
Anyone have some ideas to help avoid Major Catastrophes ?
Q: Should developers start a "Development thread" for addons they start (with some code showing they started) and they might get a little PM from Xenforo if they are actively making something that might be released in the core soon ?