[wp-pro] plugin bugfix estimate request

[Pixline › Paolo Tresso]

Hi,

I'm Paolo Tresso, actual mantainer of a once popular WordPress plugin  
called Gengo

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gengo/

It's a quite complete solution for multilanguage blogs in WordPress,  
but with a little (if any) development team. I would like to explain  
my problem.

This plugin, originally created by Jamie Talbot, was working quite  
well for WP 2.1/2.2; the original author almost dismissed it because  
of null time to work on this project, and I've picked up it trying to  
make it working with WP 2.3. This brought the plugin a bit of  
popularity again, and in the last 2 years I've acted as the maintainer  
of this project, which has a notable installed base, with mixed  
versions and issues.

Now, actually is my turn to have null time to mantain this plugin, and  
no other real php coder spotted up in the last year to help with it.  
There's little mailing list of volunteers, but quite no-one with php  
experience.. and WordPress 2.7 is a major change, considered that the  
plugin seems to have some deprecated things from my 2.3 and 2.5 porting.

So, while I'm still looking for free hands in this opensource project,  
I'm actually considering to sum donations and code-bounties to pay a  
professional (who knows WordPress more than me, and that's easy :-)  
who will work with me at it to make it work in WordPress 2.7 (maybe  
even WPMU).

If you feel you can face this challenge, I'd like you to download  
version 2.5.3 on the plugin page, test it with WordPress 2.5.x  
(possibly a vanilla installation), and write up what you think about  
it, its status, its future, your project estimate for it.

You can see a Gengo-powered website on http://pixline.net ; that was  
WordPress 2.5 (working ~80%), while many of its issues are listed here:

http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/report/9?COMPONENT=gengo
http://wordpress.org/tags/gengo


I look forward to your response, thank you for your time.


Paolo Tresso

http://pixline.net
http://www.linkedin.com/in/paolotresso