Greetings,
We are pleased to announce the stable release of Hackystat Version 7.7 and
our departure toward Version 8.0.
The stable release of Version 7.7 includes the following major enhancements:
* New sensors for Clover, TestNG, JDepend
* Visual Studio support for Zorro TDD inference.
* Core and SDT subsystems upgraded to Java 5.
* Quiescent modules moved out of build system.
* Developer Guide chapter on sensor design
* Many bug fixes
* 7.7 Release notes (32 issues) available here:
<http://hackydev.ics.hawaii.edu:8080/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10000&fixfor=10180>
We expect that 7.7 will be last stable release in the Version 7
architectural family. We plan to implement bug fixes and minor
enhancements to the Version 7 code base for the next six months at least,
but our primary focus will now be on a major,
leave-no-assumption-unquestioned redesign of Hackystat that will form the
basis of the Hackystat Version 8 architectural family. We currently expect
to release 8.0 in the Fall of 2007.
The shape of Version 8 has been discussed by the Hackystat developer
community for the past several months. In general, Version 8 will take the
form of a set of coordinated web services communicating via REST
architectural principles. The following document provides more details on
the motivation for Version 8 and our current approach:
<http://code.google.com/p/hackystat/wiki/Version8DesignProposal>
We have also decided to move our development infrastructure out of the
University of Hawaii, and start using Google Project Hosting for Version 8.
Thus, the core services in Version 8 will be developed as a set of Google
Projects. The "Hub" Version 8 project is at:
<http://code.google.com/p/hackystat/>
One of the benefits of Google Project Hosting is its nice integration with
Google blogs, wikis, groups, and mailing lists. Within the next few days,
I will migrate the hackystat-dev-l, hackystat-announce-l, and
hackystat-users-l mailing lists to their new Google group counterparts. At
that time, we will send out an email announcing the switch, and retire the
hawaii.edu lists. I will include instructions for unsubscription in that
email, or you can reply directly to this email if you do not wish to be
migrated.
I am very excited about Version 8: it has the potential to be faster,
cheaper, and better (picking all three!) I believe it will be
substantially easier to for new users to install and use, for experienced
users to configure and customize, and for developers to extend and enhance.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like more details on this
next phase in the Hackystat Project.
Cheers,
Philip
