Re: [limesurvey-developers] LimeSurvey2.0 Alpha 2 Milestone

[Juhan S. <juhan@MIT.EDU>]

Good progress.

How are the other LS developers contributing to LS2?
We need help from code reviews to tackling i18n to writing CODE.
Are folks waiting for the builder to jump in?

-Juhan

Quoting "Macasek, Michael A." <mma...@mi...>:

> All,
>
> As some of you may have noticed from the LimeSurvey 2.0 Roadmap
> (http://docs.limesurvey.org/tiki-index.php?page=LimeSurvey+2.0+Roadmap
> <http://docs.limesurvey.org/tiki-index.php?page=LimeSurvey+2.0+Roadmap>
> ) today marks the Alpha 2 milestone release of LimeSurvey 2.0. So what
> does this mean? At this point we have a fairly solid code base which
> contains many of the fundamental core components of the LimeSurvey 2.0
> survey engine. We have made steady progress in terms of basic
> reporting, plug-in system for authentication and consuming external
> hierarchy data, defined the types assignments and how results are
> recorded, provided a mechanism for system level survey's for capturing
> user feedback, devised a solid server side validation mechanism,
> provided a basic installer which allows for novice and advanced users
> to setup and configure LimeSurvey 2.0 quickly and easily and much more.
> We are also making great strides in i18n and a basic survey builder.
>
> Since this is an alpha release we will not be doing a code drop but
> rather we have created a tag in the svn repository to mark this
> milestone. You can use this tag to checkout the code in the LimeSurvey
> 2.0 Alpha release, let us know what you think. To get the Alpha 2
> release use the following command:
>
> svn co
> https://limesurvey.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/limesurvey/tags/ls2_alph
> a2 ls2_alpha2
>
>
> Please keep checking back with the roadmap to stay up to date with our
> progress, it is constantly evolving and we would love feedback on our
> progress and/or anything we are missing. Although it is not currently
> on the schedule we are planning an Alpha 3 release by June 13th. The
> purpose of this release is to provide the functionally complete basic
> builder. While the basic builder will not have all the bells and
> whistles it will provide a mechanism for creating basic survey's in the
> new LimeSurvey 2.0 system and we feel it is an important enough
> component that we dedicate an alpha release to it. Beyond that we will
> be making a run at the Beta 1 release of LimeSurvey 2.0 currently
> scheduled for July 16th!! In conjunction with this release we plan to
> do a lightening talk at OSCON during the week of July 20th to discuss
> our progress and future plans.
>
> Thank you to everyone who have been involved in the LimeSurvey 2.0
> effort, your countless contributions are greatly appreciated!! We are
> always looking for new folks to jump on board the LimeSurvey 2.0
> development effort; whether that be code, documentation, translations,
> ideas, or feedback. Let us know!
>
> Stay tuned for the great thing to come in Beta 1 and beyond!!!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Michael Macasek (on behalf of the LimeSurvey 2.0 Development Team)
>