dotProject

In case you missed the announcement we decided that dotProject series 3 needed to have some radical surgery. So we took a look at what was around and decided that a decent framework was in order. So in steps Zend Framework, and a few fevered nights of coding, and hey-presto, we have a login page and a module working. I know it doesn't sound much, but to those in the know that is a huge achievement and means basically that the idea is going to work and that progress is going to be a lot less painful than Hanrahan would have predicted. In fact I'm really chuffed at the work so far. The result is going to be a lot more solid, and a lot slicker and certainly a lot easier to maintain than the current code.

This isn't just a facelift with a few rounded corners to kid you into believing that the internals have changed. This is a rethink of how the internals work and then putting the tried and true code already developed onto a solid core, and giving us the ability to become more flexible and easier for module developers to work with.

I can't guarantee a time for the new release, but I can guarantee that it will be a far better product in every conceivable way than our current product. Let's face it, given how good we currently are, this is going to be a ripper.

You can subscribe to the commits list to keep an eye on progress, or catch up with some of the devs on the #dotproject IRC channel over at irc.freenode.net.