Jamie Talbot, the original author of the Gengo plugin, announced his comeback in his forum, so the development of this multilanguage plugin will restart properly with a WordPress 2.5 compatible release.

As the Google Code branch committer, I hope that all the work the community did on that branch will merge with the main Gengo community, I hope to talk with Jamie about this soon, and probably both the GoogleCode project and the dedicated forum on Pixline Talks will shutdown. Thank you all, issuers!

This is the original announcement:

Hello :)

So, I’m pretty impressed with people’s continuing efforts in my absence! Sorry for the extended vacation - lots of stuff all came up at the same time, which left me no time at all for WordPress or Gengo. I’m still pretty busy, but seeing all of your efforts has given me a real sense of pride and has convinced me to continue work on it. The first step was changing hosts, in the vain hope I don’t keep getting hacked again. That happened the other day (did anyone notice, I wonder? :) )

I’ve recently seen the Google Code branch of Gengo (though I haven’t looked at the code itself), which is very cool, I must say. Those of you who have contributed to that, congratulations on your hard work - I don’t think my code is very readable at the best of times!

So, the plan: I intend to do a no-new-features-just-get-it-working release that provides compatibility with WordPress 2.5. I can’t commit to having something ready in the very short term, and I think by the time I’ve had enough time to work on it, 2.5 will be just around the corner. And as always, I can’t really support more than one WordPress version. Better to be forward looking to maximise use of my time, I think.

If you have noticed things that are currently broken with Gengo, please report them on this thread. Like I say, it will only be bug fixes and compatibility for now (this includes things like tags though, which are part of WordPress), but in the future, who knows…

Cheers,

Jamie.