Greetings to our new arrivals. I want to introduce you all to our development cycle at Insoshi. We aim for regular Friday releases of new (possibly unstable) features. We'll evaluate those features for a few days, and then (now that our developer site is up) we'll push out the bleeding edge release every Tuesday morning. If you have contributions to make, it's best to have them in by Monday morning so we can roll them into the release. This week's release focuses on some admin features, a fix for duplicate activity feed items, and fixes for various minor issues that showed up after the launch of our developer site. (In case you missed it, we made it into the popular technology blog TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/29/social-networking-goes-open-source-with-insoshi/). You can always get the freshest release from GitHub (http://github.com/insoshi/insoshi).
The developer site itself is holding up well, though there are several changes planned for the next three weeks. The biggest is that we want to focus the site just on people actively involved in Insoshi, either as contributors or as interested followers. The site as it currently sits understandably has many members who joined to try out the site and 'kick the tires', but going forward we want to be more selective. We'll start by increasing privacy controls on Tuesday, May 6, so that (for example) only registered users can see profiles, and only contacts can comment on walls. Then, on Tuesday, May 20, we plan to deactivate profiles that don't meet certain minimum activity criteria. We'll spell out those criteria in advance on Tuesday, May 13; we don't want anyone to get shut out in the cold! If you have questions about getting started contributing to Insoshi, see our Contributors Guide at http://sites.google.com/a/insoshi.com/insoshi-guides/contributors-guide . This week we got a nice contribution from Tim Reinke that was just what we were looking for (in this case, adding forum topic and post deletions for admins). There are a number of steps to go from downloader to contributor, and we thank Tim for navigating them with us. Eventually we plan to have teams focused on special interests (perhaps including an Insoshi Core team); watch this space for details. We'll also be sharing more about the goals of the Insoshi project as they come into focus. Cheers, Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Insoshi developer site: http://dogfood.insoshi.com/ Insoshi documentation: http://docs.insoshi.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Insoshi" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/insoshi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
