Forum OpenACS Q&A: OpenACS bi-weekly Newsletter, 2003-12-18

This will be the last issue of the newsletter for this year. Currently I am debating the future of the newsletter with my self, because I suspect many of you will agree with me, that the way it works now may have to change. Possibly due to the erratic schedule I have managed to generate, then people seems to prefer posting whatever interesting bits of info they may have in the forums themselves.

This is of course perfectly OK, yet this means, that for the newsletter to be generally interesting and worth reading, I might have to spend a more concentrated effort towards gathering and summarizing news in which ever way I can. The question remains if the time might be better spend on my part working with OpenACS instead of just writing about it. Comments highly welcome. Many seems to like the idea of a newsletter, but how should it work?

Now on with the show.

Jade Rubick must be monitoring his inbox constantly, because yet again he was first off the bat with a quick note, that he has posted an update on the Project Manager.

Joel Aufrecht

Status of OpenACS 5.0/dotLRN 2.0

We are down to a very small number of blocking bugs, but still have two blocking milestone criteria: upgrades and translations. Both are being actively worked on. To answer the common question of when:

Our release schedule is a three-variable equation: work, resources, and time. Since we will hold up the release until we meet our quality standards, we have an invariant amount of work. Therefore, since resources are largely volunteer and hence variable, time is variable.

Monthly Code Bash

We are starting up a rotating once-a-month northern European weekend code bash; we would like to hold the next one in Berlin in January and IMHO the integration of tclwebtest into automated testing is OpenACS's #1 post-5.0 priority and a good candidate for a code bash. It would be cool if we had several simultaneous code bashes around the world each month.

Bart Teeuwisse

Still working on an Emacs OACS mode, which is coming along nicely. But as development of this mode is done in my spare time it progresses in (random) bursts.

Brad Buell just passed an Oracle port of the Authorize payment gateway along. Expect this to be merged into the OpenACS CVS by the end of this week.

Happy holidays,

Bart Teeuwisse

Lars Pind

Blogger Hacking Weekend

We had a productive weekend working on blogger on HEAD. See details here.

State Of The Codebase

Daily files commited/touched in HEAD by all committers:
2003-11-25 :: 148
2003-11-26 :: 165
2003-11-27 :: 54
2003-11-28 :: 46
2003-11-29 :: 84
2003-11-30 :: 40
2003-12-01 :: 33
2003-12-02 :: 78
2003-12-03 :: 81
2003-12-04 :: 126
2003-12-05 :: 67
2003-12-06 :: 92
2003-12-07 :: 67
2003-12-08 :: 0
2003-12-09 :: 286
2003-12-10 :: 138
2003-12-11 :: 33
2003-12-12 :: 690
2003-12-13 :: 132
2003-12-14 :: 115
2003-12-15 :: 137
2003-12-16 :: 187
2003-12-17 :: 228

Bugs

Submitted: 1306 (up 80).
Open: 304 (up 14).
Closed+resolved: 1002 (up 66).

Patches

Submitted: 402.
Open: 65 (up 9).

Frank.

There are people that read every post and are highly involved with the community every day.  So they tend to almost just "know" all the information.  For the rest, the synopsis is extemely valuable.

Also, the "big picture" view and history value is very helpful in Succinctly conveying what is going on and what needs to be done.