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2007/07/11
It's been far too long since the release of AppFuse 2.0 M5. When we released that version, I fully expected to finish up RC1 a week or two later, and follow that with 2.0 Final a week later. Fast forward a month and a half, and there's still 38 issues left for 2.0 RC1. What happened?
Life got in the way.
There's probably less than 40 hours left to complete 2.0. I could say that I haven't had the time, but you all know that's a lie. Everyone has time. When someone says "I don't have time to do X right now", this really means "that's not on my priority list and I'm not going to make time to do it". So unfortunately AppFuse hasn't been on my priority list. Finding a new gig, vacationing with my family and buying a new mountain bike were on my priority list.
So if there's only 40 hours worth of work left, why didn't I just work a couple hours a day on it? Primarily because when I work on AppFuse it possesses me. I tend to get caught up in it and it's tough for me to concentrate on other things, especially work that I'm supposed to be doing during the day. Since I've had two new clients in the past few weeks, I've been aware of this and purposely stayed away from working on it.
The good news is things should settle down soon. I have a couple weekends on the horizon that look to be free, so hopefully I can crank it out and finish it up in the next month or so. As far as the project itself, there's plenty of users happily using the 2.0 milestone releases and there's still lots of traffic on the mailing list. It's crazy to think that the planning for AppFuse 2.0 started over a year ago and development started one year ago next month. If I knew it'd take this long, would I still have done it? Absolutely. I've never heard so many positive comments from users.
In other AppFuse News, Contegix has graciously donated an entire managed server to the project. We have licenses for the Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo and Crowd) and will be moving/installing everything over the next week or so.
Thanks Contegix!
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2007/07/27
Contegix has been gracious enough to donate a server to the AppFuse project. Not only do we get a whole server to ourselves, but they're managing it and making sure it stays up all the time.
I've moved JIRA onto their servers, as well as Confluence. Confluence is at wiki.appfuse.org and as DNS entries begin to change, appfuse.org will switch to this server. apache.appfuse.org is the new "static" server and the DNS change has started for that as well. demo1.appfuse.org is the new location of demo.appfuse.org and DNS changes are pending.
If you have a moment, please play a bit with wiki.appfuse.org, apache.appfuse.org and demo1.appfuse.org to see if you see anything strange.
In addition to our normal services, we've also got received new licenses from Atlassian for Crowd (SSO) and Bamboo (Continuous Integration server). Since Atlassian's tools are built on a lot of the same software that AppFuse uses, I feel like we're somewhat eating our own dogfood.
We merged the accounts for JIRA and Confluence into Crowd. If you had accounts in both, JIRA won (as long as you had the same username, etc.).
The builds for AppFuse 2.x are still done by Hudson, but I hope to change this in the near future. If someone has time to fiddle with Bamboo in the next few days - let me know and I'll give you appropriate permissions.
Thanks Contegix - you guys rock!