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development activity

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 5:17 am
by Dennis
Hi all,

I was just wondering what the status is regarding general development.
I noticed that the next milestone is overdue and there are some issues open.

There is also not much activity in the code repository.

Is development being paused, lack of time, currently on hold?
I want to contribute to the project any way I can, but first I need to understand the code a bit better by building myself a POC (see other topic:) )

Re: development activity

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:52 am
by bradford.taylor
The momentum of feature development has dropped during the holidays.

We've made some small enhancements lately and we are would like to implement some additional projects in the near future. We have tasked ourselves with meeting soon and re-evaluating the roadmap, deciding the next improvements and setting a release schedule. We hope to have this meeting within the next month or so.

Re: development activity

Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:00 am
by Dennis
oke, thank you for the update !

Re: development activity

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:03 am
by Dennis
Nice, I saw that a lot of activity is happening in the source control.
I'm very pleased to see this activity and know that work continues!

P.S. Can you give a heads up on the Content Management module made by elbertbautista ? What is it intended to do exactly?

Re: development activity

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:01 pm
by bradford.taylor
The Content Management effort will result in features in both the framework and in admin. It is intended to allow for HTML content to be edited and deployed by content editors to production without the intervention of developers. There is a simple workflow for an approval process as well as preview capabilities. Although it is not fully developed yet, there will be the ability to implement MVEL rules to target specific customers based on rules, such as if they have certain items in their shopping cart.

The framework code includes a new tag to display targeted content retrieved from the database. The admin code provides an interface to edit, update and approve the content.

Bradford Taylor

Re: development activity

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:43 am
by dmartin
This is nice to see the project is still evolving. I hope a new stable release will arrive soon.

Re: development activity

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:30 am
by delirii
Hi Dev Team,

Can you post an updated status of your current development, maybe be a new roadmap showing when the next release(s) will be available. It's been a long time since the 1.0.0.GA came out and no new intermediate (and yet stable) versions appeared since this first release, which is intriguing (at least for me).

I may have missed some docs about what's coming up with 1.1 branch (i've just seen it available as a milestone 2), if you have any links.

Thank you.

Re: development activity

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:51 am
by bradford.taylor
The current release, available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/broadleaf/files/, is 1.1.0 M2. Other version between 1.0.0 GA and 1.1.0M2 are also available there. We are currently working toward version 1.1 and plan on releasing it after we finalize our USPS module.

EDIT: I had listed working toward 1.2 but we are currently working toward a 1.1 release.

Re: development activity

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:23 am
by Dennis
Hi,

is there some kind of changelog present, or can I check which bugs have been resolved?
Trac used to be up to date, but I don't think it is anymore, is it?

The reason I ask is that I'm creating a webshop with the 1.0.0. release. Upgrading, and merging, to the new version will be a lot off work, so I want to know
a) if it is worth it
b) what new/fixed items are included.

Gr. Dennis

Re: development activity

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:20 pm
by bradford.taylor
We don't have a well documented changelog at this point. I've taken the release notes provided in the distributions and created a wiki page out of them at http://www.broadleafcommerce.org/trac/wiki/releaseNotes. We use the Sourceforge SVN repository for all our updates so all changes can be found in the history of the project there.