Greetings, all,
This list has been pretty quiet lately, which is pretty much my fault: I
let a lot of relevent Hackystat developer discussion migrate to the
internal CSDL mailing list. Mea culpa!
To catch everyone up to date:
(1) I am hoping to make the 7.7 stable release sometime next week. There
are currently seven remaining issues, allocated among developers as follows:
Nickles (2)
Kou (2)
Stupplebeen (1)
Senin (1)
Johnson (1)
Most of these are pretty straightforward. Let me know if you seen any
problems closing these issues before Wednesday of next week.
(2) The big news is that 7.7 is the last release in the 7.x architecture
family. Version 7 has lasted 17 months so far, which is the longest lived
architectural family so far in Hackystat. (See
<http://hackydev.ics.hawaii.edu/hackyDevSite/doc/History.html> for a
summary of the seven architectural families so far in Hackystat.)
While I am extremely pleased with our accomplishments using Version 7, I am
REALLY excited about our plans for Version 8. After extensive consultation
with academic, research, and industrial partners, we are well on our way to
a design for Version 8 that is going to enable Hackystat to go where no
software engineering measurement system has gone before!
For Version 8, we will not only be re-architecting the system, we will also
be re-architecting the development process. For example, we are going to
move hosting from the CSDL research lab to Google Project Hosting, and
implement Version 8 as a collection of Google Projects. This will enable us
to utilize a lot of very nice Google hosting features (wikis, groups, etc.)
in an integrated fashion. I've been using Google Project Hosting in my
software engineering classes this past year and am confident it's going to
be a big win for the Hackystat community.
I have set up the "hub" Google project for Version 8 at:
<http://code.google.com/p/hackystat/>. You get more details by looking at
the Wiki pages and developer blogs associated with that project.
Please let me know what you think, and how you would like to be involved in
Version 8 development. After the Version 7 stable release, I am going to
shut down the hawaii.edu hackystat-dev-l mailing list and move everyone
over to the hackystat-dev google group. Let me know if you do not want to
be migrated!
Cheers,
Philip
