New OpenQabal Release Coming Soon

The last month has been an interesting time for OpenQabal. Thanks to my previous employer graciously laying me off from my job about 5 weeks ago, I've had the opportunity to spend most of the last month essentially working on OpenQabal full-time. A lot of progress has been made, and I anticipate making a formal 0.0.3 release soon, probably within the next week.

Some of the changes that will appear (this does not, btw, map exactly to the previous road-map. As they say, "planning is essential, but a plan is useless.")

• New, more modular build system using Ivy for dependency management and incorporating useful tools such as FindBugs, JDepend, PMD, TestNG, Cobertura, etc.
• New "User Dashboard" component that provides the main point of entry and ties the various components together visually
• Concordantly with the introduction of the new User Dashboard, all of the old Sitemesh stuff has been ripped out
• New configure and install scripts to automate most of the tedious parts of building and installing OpenQabal
• Addition of many unit tests (we still don't have 100% test coverage, but progress has been made)
• Various minor bug fixes and tweaks
• Probably some other stuff I'm forgetting

Unfortunately a couple of things that I'd hoped to get in a 0.0.3 release are going to have to be deferred, with the most notable being OpenID login support. However, a subsequent 0.0.4 release should be around in relatively short order, and will include OpenID and - if things go well - a number of other big improvements.

Unfortunately I have to go back to work for "the man" now so that I can pay my rent, so I won't be able to spend quite as much time on OpenQabal. But things will continue to move forward. There may actually be some even bigger news in the near future, so stay tuned.

Syndicated 2008-03-29 07:23:28 (Updated 2008-03-29 07:24:20) from openqabal