This will be a long post, unfortunately, since I have quite a few questions.
Firstly, I am a professional programmer, and I've given some time already to the IP_201110224_13053b codebase designing a new theme for a wood working site "Arca di Legno" - look it up, I can't yet publish the link.
Beyond the theme, I've started to make some modifications (a bad habit I know) to the main codebase. At this point I'm wondering if I should be doing this on the Github, or with the new version 2.0 beta release.
Some of the code seems to be too related to previous themes, or improvable (albums and chat, for example).
I don't want to waste time (yours or mine) building something which can't easily be integrated into the current codebase.
In other respects I am very ignorant of IP in general, such as FAP - is there documentation somewhere? Is FAP the album system in 1.3?
I'm very impressed with this site, which is running 2.0 beta, so I'd like to move in that direction. Mighty Gorgon (Luca) runs the Arca di Legno site so perhaps this is possible.
TIA
John