It's official: There will be a new Gallery 3

Over the last few days, most of the Gallery developers has been doing a 'Gx Coding Sprint' in Google's Mountain View location. The purpose of the sprint was to reach an agreement on the road ahead, and to get started on the new version of Gallery.

Sadly I was not able to attend, but they seem to have managed fine without me (No surprises there)! So far, Bharat has outlined the road ahead in a Gallery-Devel thread. Read the whole thing for the details, but the gist of it is this:

• Name: Gallery 3 (surprise!)
• Framework: Kohana
• Supported Environment: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL 5, PHP 5)

Basically this comes down to acknowledging that Gallery 2 has become to large and to all-embracing to be effective at what it does. Gallery 3 will try to rectify this.

While I have no experience with Kohana at all, I'm really looking forward to working on this. It promises to be a lot of fun and I hope to be able to really contribute to making Gallery 3 a huge success. Now, lets get a fully functional external API ready and I'll try to make sure that there is a Habari Silo available for it as well.
After all, the Silo's look great and does a fantastic job when publishing content.

Posted by Christian Mohn aka h0bbel