Author: John McLear

So we’re half way through our hackathon and we have some updates..

We have decided to drop the Etherpad Legacy nameand allow Etherpad Lite adopt the name of Etherpad, we are still working on getting the same features into Lite that were in Legacy so until then this is just an agreement.
The plugin framework is now in very early alpha and developer docs are due today.
A number of bugs have been squashed
We have decided on a prefix for the plugin structure ep_
A number of plugins have been written and will be available to review soon
We now have some example users that we are using for internal discussions.

We’re looking for a nodejs community liaison master, can you help?
We’re looking for a bugmaster, can you help?
We’re looking for someone to lead our continuous testing efforts, can you help?
We’re looking for someone with bugzilla experience and resources, can you help?

Our road map is designed to give users, developers and site admins the ability to see where the Etherpad Community is going with Etherpad and what areas we need help with.

Replace Etherpad (“legacy”) completely with Etherpad Lite.
Write some User Documentation.
Complete a Plugin Framework.
* Create a group Management Plugin.
* Create a rich Text plugin.
Completely support full migration from V1 to V2 including saved revision support.
Implement optional natural language processing.
Implement optional Distributed bug tracking.

If you feel you can help then please get in touch We need all the help we can get!! Thanks

Today signals the beginning of the Etherpad Hackathon. Our goal is to get version 1.1 finalized and hopefully a plugin framework.

Here is our progress tracker for remote joiners and includes a list of stuff to get involved with.

Please ping us via email/skype/irc/google group if you have any questions.