Milestones 3 & 4 Daily Update Log

Jon

The author profile is coming along well. It should be done in the next day or three. I did have to slow down to figure out how I want to handle author profile pics. I think that I'm going to default to using Gravatar, but then allow an author to upload their own image directly to the app if they wish to manually set one.

That should be what I work on tomorrow.

Jon

The author section is done for now. There are still some tweaks that I want to make and add some features to the authors page, but for now the basic system is installed and working.

Next up I want to make it so you can "favorite" anthology projects. This will come in handy later when I add email notifications to the site. I want to have it so you can favorite a project and then when that project has a major update or changes status (like being open for submissions) that you get notified about it.

This will bring a lot more usefulness to the site for relatively little effort, and that's why it's going in during the MVP phase of Anthology Gateway.

Jon

The bookmark feature is mostly working. You can now bookmark (aka favorite) an anthology, or remove the bookmark.

I still need to make that bookmark do something, like show up in a list in your dashboard, but that shouldn't take much longer.

The pain in the butt part of this is making the bookmark icon look good. It's such a pain getting css to behave sometimes.

Jon

The bookmark system is in place. I think I want to add one small feature before calling milestone 3 done. I want to show how many people have bookmarked your anthology on the anthology management page.

Jon

Added the ability to see how many users have bookmarked an anthology projects from the project management dashboard.

Milestone 3 is officially complete! This was a fairly quick turn around compared to what is likely going to be seen in the future releases.

I rearranged the next milestones a bit to make sure that we do not skip over features that will be harder to install in the future. Submissions are coming soon... but probably not until Milestones 5 and 6.

Milestone 4 will focus on adding team members to an anthology project, and to a publisher team.

Jon

Yesterday and today I did a bunch of planning out the next set of features. I ended up rearranging things in the roadmap to make sure we have all of the foundational things that we need to make the later features work.

Basically I have a good outline of what work needs to be done for Milestone 4, and I have them entered into my issue tracking system. Tomorrow I will start knocking out as many of them as I can.

Jon

This last week has been a bit crazy. I didn't get much done this weekend because I spent the weekend hanging out with a bunch of Russians at church. 😃 I learned so much from that...

Anyway, I have all of the foundational pieces in place to implement some project limits that will help keep the project sizes manageable. This will be used during the upgrade process to increase the limits per anthology project, a needed step to keep AG viable.

Tomorrow I will start the work on adding team members to the anthology projects. One of the main features that inspired Anthology Gateway is the ability to have multiple team members voting on submissions as they are submitted.