Greetings, all, I've put together a first pass at an initial set of Jira issues for the 7.5 release cycle:
<http://hackydev.ics.hawaii.edu:8080/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10151> We're starting out as usual with around 30 issues, which I'm sure will grow to around 90-100 by the time we actually finish the release. Take a look, add new ones if you want, assign any of the unassigned ones to yourself if you would like. I expect development of the system to slow over the next couple of months; the lab will have some personnel transitions, and I will be offline for the entire month of July. I am thus thinking that we will probably do the 7.5 stable release in late September/early October. This Fall promises to be very exciting in Hackystat Land. First, for the first time in a year and a half, I will be teaching software engineering again, so it will provide us with a new opportunity to see how students react to Hackystat in a Java-based classroom setting. There has been immense improvements in the functionality and sophistication of Hackystat during this time, so I am excited to see how the students react. As a side-effect of teaching the course, I plan to cherry-pick a few new graduate students for admittance into the esteemed ranks of the Hackystat Hackers. Second, I am also intending to incorporate test-driven development into the curriculum, which will provide us with an opportunity to further evaluate Zorro, the TDD inferencing system. Third, Hackystat will also be used at UH in a high performance computing software development class, and so we will be collecting data and doing a pilot study in that environment. Our goal there is to explore workflow analysis similar to the Zorro system for TDD, but instead focussed on the kinds of states and transitions interesting to HPC software development. It will also be used at a number of other Universities in the US through our collaboration with UMD to support HPC-related data collection and analysis. Cheers, Philip
