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- 11/23/2018 11:42:03 AM (7 years ago)
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Ticket #8006, comment 1
initial v1 3 3 This year, we shipped a new default set of templates with BuddyPress ("Nouveau" templates). These are of a higher quality, more maintainable, and have more features that classic templates that it replaced. I think this marked the 4th major templating change for BuddyPress in its 10 year history, which feels pretty good to me. 4 4 5 Though admittedly there was a 4(-ish) year gap since the last generation shipped, volunteer projects always make progress when someone wants to work on something, and the idea of building new templates was pretty intense and extremely daunting, which I think put many of us of . Fortunately, we had a small team of contributors who took on that challenge, which become Nouveau, and it took them around 18 months (I think, maybe more) from start to finish.5 Though admittedly there was a 4(-ish) year gap since the last generation shipped, volunteer projects always make progress when someone wants to work on something, and the idea of building new templates was pretty intense and extremely daunting, which I think put many of us off. Fortunately, we had a small team of contributors who took on that challenge, which become Nouveau, and it took them around 18 months (I think, maybe more) from start to finish. 6 6 7 7 As a project, I feel we learnt that next time we do this, it won't be a monolithic set of templates. There was also a lot of complexity and compromise about maintaining support for existing customisations, especially those introduced by plugins. Our 3rd party plugin ecosystem is not as strong as it was 5 years ago, and if we entirely broke compatibility with the main BuddyPress plugins, I think we'd loose users.