As I have gotten more and more involved in the WordPress world, I have released a couple of plugins, working on several more, and have already learned a few things.
One, it is always a good idea to release early, and release often, except where WordPress release system is invloved. The system is based on SubVersion, which has been great getting to learn, but it lulls you into making some assumptions. The problem with this system, is the moment you upload code to the repository, it releases publicly. While that is fine if it is a small plugin and your first release should be public, it is not a good thing for larger projects that are going to require a lot of testing and iterations to get it ready for an actual public release. WordPress does disclaimer their system, saying it is not a hosting service just a listing service. Which begs the question, “Why are you using SVN?”. Probably because it is familiar to most people that will be contributing code.
With all that in mind, I have moved my development versions over to Google Code. It is a hosting service, is faster than Sourceforge, and I like the interface a lot better; it is a lot more clean and easy to understand. All my WordPress plugins will be there, under the project SuiteX, and eventually the other projects I have going, like LadderX will move over there as well.
This doesnt really affect any of you much, except for questions/concerns/bugs/requests, I ask that you go over to the Issue Tracker on Google and post there. It will keep everything a bit more organized, than random comments on this website or on the WordPress forums which do a horrible job of notification or even categorization.
Per the usual, if you have questions, please just ask.
