I'm pleased to announce that the development of Commentics can now be found on GitHub! This will bring several advantages to the project and its users. For instance:
- You can now follow each change to the code as it's made. This will allow you to see the improvements and fixes in real-time and, where appropriate, provides a way for you to merge these into your own copy before they are officially released!
- You will be able to “fork” the code in order to submit your own changes to the project so that they can be considered for inclusion. This will allow for unlimited involvement as you could submit anything from a single bug fix to a series of new features.
- Git and GitHub will track each change so that it can offer an advanced form of version control. This means that if one of the changes ever needs to be reverted then this can be done with ease. Even multiple branches can be developed for each feature.
- Upgrades will be easier if you have made any custom alterations, as you will be able to see the exact differences to the files that you had altered.
Learning how to use Git and GitHub can be a very steep learning curve, particularly if you're not familiar with version control, so it's expected that to begin with only serious developers will be able to fully participate in this process. However, over time you should find documentation on this website to help try to make it as simple as possible.
At the moment there is no code development to watch, as focus is solely on the commentics.com website (you may have noticed the new mega menu). The code that is there at present is an unmodified v2.3. Once the next version is started on you will be able to make the most of this new milestone in the project.