OpenQabal 0.0.3 available

OpenQabal 0.0.3 has been released and is now available from the SVN repo. As with previous releases, there are not yet pre-built binary releases available... you will have to check the code out from SVN and build it. Thankfully this process is now *much* easier as a result of massive work on the build system and the addition of scripts to automate most of the tedious stuff. You can now essentially build and install OpenQabal with 4 commands.

Changes in this release include:

• 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)
• New "IdentityEngine" component introduced (more on this later)
• Posting blogs using MetaWeblogAPI now works with the OpenQabal IdentityEngine component
• Various minor bug fixes and tweaks

This release is a huge step in the direction of having a really usable system, but there is still a LOT of work to be done. Some things that had originally been planned for this release had to be deferred to 0.0.4, with OpenID support being the most notable such item. And of course there are still plenty of ideas on the roadmap that we haven't even gotten started on yet. But we're now in a lot better position to be able to start on some of the more interesting stuff, such as the "distributed conversation" support, tools for building a managing the "social graph," etc.

Look for a new post soon with more discussion of what the roadmap will look in the near future, as well as some discussion of some of the important changes that did make it into 0.0.3. And with any luck, the long-awaited "demo server" will be coming soon, as well as some screencasts and other ways of exploring OpenQabal.

Syndicated 2008-05-10 22:24:31 (Updated 2008-05-10 22:25:45) from openqabal