Hi folks, Looking in from the outside, this has been a quiet few months in SchoolTool-land. We haven't been following the maxim of "release early, release often," because we've been writing a ton of code, and creating releases for a project the size of SchoolTool takes a lot more time than you'd think.
It looks like all three threads of development going on now will resolve themselves by the end of next week: POV is working on a new access control system which is vastly simpler and more straightforward than what we've had previously; Infrae is finishing a new demographics/student info component; and Stephan Richter is finishing the structure for school years, terms, semesters, and creating evaluations for those. We'll then be able to put out the long awaited "SchoolTool 2006 alpha2," which will be followed by a steady progression of betas. The biggest change that will need to be made between alpha2 and the beginning of school in the fall is rearranging the UI to be more task oriented, rather than encouraging you to browse the object hierarchy, which is still the predominant metaphor once you get past the calendar. We will particularly focus on this during the first SchoolTool development sprint, which is coming up on July 16-19 in Durham, New Hampshire at the New England Linux Symposium, where we'll have lots of school sys admins and tech coordinators handy to give us feedback. --Tom _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
