Hi all,

sorry for the delay with the 2.11 release - the discussion and
planning of workflow, fixing bugs, improving documentation and
deciding how stuff should work has slowed things down somewhat (as has
my lack of time due to moving jobs, and going on  a much needed
holiday).

Fortunately we have managed to get done now a lot of work that could
have been worse if we had left it until later. One of the advantages
of open source is that as well as releasing often and early we can
continue working on a significant release until we are happy with it
rather than shipping something without the advertised features or with
significant breakage or problems.

Maypole users waiting for the next version may well be wondering what
has been happening - if you check the changelog and SVN you will see a
great deal of work that has required that the developers totally grok
the maypole internals - essentially we have had no choice but to go in
and work on stuff we didn't previously fully understand, rather than
chipping away at the edges.

Significant improvements in the documentation have been made and these
have shown problems or lack of clarity or conistency in the
application that we feel the need to fix rather than leave.

I have also taken on the significant task for re-engineering the CDBI
model and how forms are handled based on the custom code and feedback
from the developers, list and wiki. That is a considerable piece of
work to fit into a relatively small amount of free time, especially
when having a blank canvas in some areas of the API.

So in all.. yes 2.11 is later than I said (again), but it will kick ass!

The documentation is far more complete, form handling will be painless
and productive, workflow will no longer involve (as much) black magic.
Our new configuration options, request methods and model methods will
make the catalyst kids green with envy ;)

Thanks for your patience and feedback - please continue to provide
both in as much as you can spare.

A.


-------------------------------------------------------
SF.Net email is sponsored by:
Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download
it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own
Sony(tm)PSP.  Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php
_______________________________________________
Maypole-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/maypole-users

Reply via email to