(Originally posted on my DotNetNuke.com Blog) The DNN News Project has taken a different and better direction than originally planned. The original plan for this module was to release a basic upgrade as described in my last post. During the process of testing that upgrade, we determined that the module didn’t provide the best solution without some of the additional functionality that we planned on releasing in future versions. For example, when multiple feeds are combined into one display the advanced conversion, templating, and caching of multiple feeds needs to be taken into consideration.
So, long story short, the module isn’t going to be released as early as I had originally hoped, but it is going to have twice the functionality when it is. We decided to take the extra time to release a high quality and well architected module that was designed to implement many of the advanced features we have in mind for the future rather than rush the project with a ‘quck fix’ upgrade.
Please have patience and stay tuned for more updates. This module is going to introduce a slightly new way to think about news feeds. I need open minded people to try this module out and let us know if our proposed new way to think about news feeds makes sense or if there might be a better way to handle the ever growing world of news feeds. I am again going to invite beta testers to send me an email at jmcwilliam@flatburger.com, and thank those that have already responded.
I have updated the News project in Gemini (support.dotnetnuke.com) with some of the latest issues regarding this project.
