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i've had the sourceforge folks completely remove all cvs modules, and i have re-imported the current source code into the cvs tree.

module names have changed, as has the complete application structure.

interested parties can checkout the following modules:
cfg => configuration and ADAuth
db => database structure
doc => documentation
fnc => functions (db abstraction in particular)
htdocs => the actual php code for the front end... read more

the cvs snapshot is currently broken, as we migrate the code to a new format.

the goal is to move all the code into the new structure, then release a 0.2 version for the interested to play around with by the end of october.

I'm going to be redoing ascent in some pretty major ways:
1. Significantly altering the database structure
2. Changing the layout of the web process
3. Changing the config.inc.php to use constants rather than an array

Basically, I've learned a great deal since starting this project, and I'm going to be taking what I've learned and starting over (which to be honest, isn't really as tragic as it sounds).... read more

yay! today i installed gCVS. not only is it giving me an easy way to manage my cvs tree, it's showing me the commands it uses to do it, which is helping me learn quite a bit.

the end result is, i've finally (i think) managed to clean up the stupid noob errors i caused in the cvs repository as i was learning how it worked.

that means that the /initial and /functions modules are no longer full mirrors of the tree, and in fact, the /inital module has been removed, as it was never intended to be created in the first place.... read more

figured i'd get back to work on this project, since it's been sitting here doing nothing for a while now.
So ...

I've downloaded the alpha release tarball and installed it, (my laptop having been rebuilt a number of times since the last time I worked on this project.)

I found some problems while installing which I've submitted to myself as bugs, and I will spend the next couple days trying to remember how to work sourceforge again as I upload the fixes to them.... read more

I've put out the first release.
It's taken much longer than I had hoped, and is still nowhere near being a real product, but Ascent version 0.1 is out, and I'm eagerly awaiting comment.
There's really not much there, the SQL is done (for now) as is the basic php groundwork and config. But, in the spirit of "release early, and often" it has been set free. Now, to see if it comes back, runs away, or simply falls flat on it's face ;-)