Archives for: "November 2007"

Working smarter, not harder

November 30th, 2007
I'm often amused at the store people put in statistics. Forum post counts, bug counts, code commits, even lines of code are often touted as being indicative of some worth. The trouble is they are all very misleading. And what does it mean anyway?… more »

dotProject now using Subversion

November 16th, 2007
Since dotProject was first registered on SourceForge on 1st March 2001, we have used their CVS system for managing the code. Today we moved this across to Subversion (SVN). There are a number of reasons behind the move and behind the timing. Since we… more »

Release 2.1.1 now available

November 15th, 2007
It has been a bit of a rocky road but we have now sorted out all of the insanity in the 2.1 release and have a stable 2.1.1 release for your pleasure. If you installed 2.1 or any of the CVS snapshots since, you should immediately upgrade to 2.1.1 as… more »

dotProject 2.x Manuals

November 14th, 2007
With thanks to DeBortoli Wines here in Australia for their sponsorship of the task, we are able to provide a 2.x compatible / offline dotProject User Manual. You can find the PDF's packaged into a single file at: Sourceforge dotProject 2.x Manuals They… more »

Clash of Cultures: Open source and Business

November 4th, 2007
The core dotProject development team is taking a rather controversial direction in its future development path, and the fallout from this prompted me to look at some of the ideas behind the controversy. Business struggles with Open Source. It has a… more »