To all fans, supporters, critics, enemies, friends, family, random
strangers, etc. who might be interested in such thing:
OpenQabal 0.0.3 has been released and is now available from the SVN
repo. As with previous releases, there are not yet pre-built binary
releases available... you will have to check the code out from SVN and
build it. Thankfully this process is now *much* easier as a result of
massive work on the build system and the addition of scripts to automate
most of the tedious stuff. You can now essentially build and install
OpenQabal with 4 commands.
Changes in this release include:
* New, more modular build system using Ivy for dependency
management and incorporating useful tools such as FindBugs, JDepend,
PMD, TestNG, Cobertura, etc.
* New "User Dashboard" component that provides the main point of
entry and ties the various components together visually
* Concordantly with the introduction of the new User Dashboard, all
of the old Sitemesh stuff has been ripped out
* New configure and install scripts to automate most of the tedious
parts of building and installing OpenQabal
* Addition of many unit tests (we still don't have 100% test
coverage, but progress has been made)
* New "IdentityEngine" component introduced
* Posting blogs using MetaWeblogAPI now works with the OpenQabal
IdentityEngine component
* Various minor bug fixes and tweaks
This release is a huge step in the direction of having a really usable
system, but there is still a LOT of work to be done. Some things that
had originally been planned for this release had to be deferred to
0.0.4, with OpenID support being the most notable such item. And of
course there are still plenty of ideas on the roadmap that we haven't
even gotten started on yet. But we're now in a lot better position to be
able to start on some of the more interesting stuff, such as the
"distributed conversation" support, tools for building a managing the
"social graph," etc.
Look for new blog posts soon with more discussion of what the roadmap
will look in the near future, as well as some discussion of some of the
important changes that did make it into 0.0.3. And with any luck, the
long-awaited "demo server" will be coming soon, as well as some
screencasts and other ways of exploring OpenQabal.
See <https://openqabal.dev.java.net> or
<http://www.jroller.com/openqaal> for more information.
TTYL,
--
Phillip Rhodes
Chief Architect - OpenQabal
https://openqabal.dev.java.net
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/philliprhodes
