Subject Re: [IBO] Update on D2009 progress
Author Antti Kurenniemi
>> Jason Wharton wrote:
>> I am glad to report I am now able to make IBO development my full time
>> effort so the progress with IBO should start moving at a very
>> accellerated pace. I've been through a total living hell for the past
>> year but I am absolutely determined to get things back in order and its
>> looking like I am finally there. I will very soon have a BETA version of
>> D2009 to test. The changes made are very wide sweeping. This has been a
>> tremendous amount of work and it is going to take a while yet before it
>> is finished. Almost every aspect of IBO has been hit by these changes.
>> But, it will be good to finally make this transition into Unicode. I'm
>> not complaining.
>>
>> Thanks for everyone's patience thus far.
>>
>> Jason Wharton
>
> Thanks a lot for the news, Jason.
>
> 1. Because of these changes (and the ones to come, see bellow) IMHO,
> perhaps it's better to use a better infrastructure for the project. I
> think specifically, to have the project hosted on eg. SourceForge.net.
> You have a plethora of tools there (I think at SF's new tracker
> primarily - for a quick look see
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?group_id=176962&atid=879332) which will
> help us to advance faster the project. I don't mean to open source the
> code there, neither to abandon this mailing list (even if you can have
> much more on SF: mailing lists, forums, wiki, etc.), just to use from
> there what we consider appropriate for our project from SF.

I second that. A bugtracker at least, and I'd really like some sort of wiki
to collect all the tidbits of information I now store in my email and other
files around the place. I would think that we could find a few people here
to help moderate the stuff to keep it in good shape.

And good to have you back, Jason!


Antti Kurenniemi