Thanks to the dozen hardy volunteers and powered by the Scandinavian Bug-fixing Engine Room of Jarkko Laine and Peter Marklund, we reduced the number of 5.1.0 beta-blocking bugs from over 50 to 21. The milestone criteria call for a maximum of 15 open and resolved (fixed but untested) Pri 2 bugs to reach β; since all but 6 of the outstanding bugs are now resolved instead of open and since the other criteria are solid, OpenACS 5.1 has entered the beta-testing stage. Please help ship 5.1 by attending to your
bugs, including verifying and closing bugs that we fixed.
Our format was pretty straightforward - we had a conference room with wireless and wired access, a test server, and a stack of printed bugs. Interested parties split out into "breakout sessions" for CSSification, a presentation of the .KUL concept, and demonstrations of OpenACS sites.
We are now looking for hosts for May and June bug bashes. If we can nail down space well in advance, more people will be able to make travel plans. In particular, it would be great to get some more developers who use OpenACS (as opposed to developing it) to show us some of the different sites that you are building with the toolkit. It would also be nice if some people who *use* sites built on OpenACS/.LRN could attend, in which case we could do some usability testing and prototyping.
