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[Cando-devel] Re: Welsh Checking on CanDo Work Schedule for Coming Weekend/Week

[Paul C. <pau...@gm...>]

> In terms of overall scheduling, I would say we have about two weeks of
> changes left (until Sept. 2nd), until we should
> aim to get our version together for distrubution.

I agree.  Originally we had planned to do a release for tommorow.=20
Which can be done (it only takes about 10 minutes)  But it would make
a lot more sense to spend the next two weeks implementing those last
few user stories (most of which are not difficult), and have something
that is that much more sleek.  Also, if we made a release now, we
would just end up making another one in two weeks, and there is not
much point in doing that.  Eldar should be able to make all these
changes without any trouble, and I will be only an email away if there
is any trouble.  This release would be considered the official alpha
release.

> We then have about
> another two weeks to continue ironing out bugs
> as we train Career Center instructors on it.  Come mid-September
> (Friday, Sept. 16th), CanDo needs to be pretty well locked-down.

After bug fixes our done, we would make another release (the beta) at this =
time.

> A crucial date coming up is September 27th, when we plan to offer CanDo
> to a school besides our own (the VA Beach
> Advanced Technology Center).  I will be going to VA Beach to show the
> product to their school and administrators.

It would be perfect for them to use the official "beta" version.  Then
they would have some idea of what to expect.

> After September 16th, I would like to talk with the team about serving
> and maintaining CanDo for the Career Center
> and VA Beach.

By this time I should have a pretty good idea of the lay of the land
as far as college work load and free-time is concerned.  I intend to
not only stay with the project as a maintainer but also to develope
whatever new features Jeff has in mind and do some architectural
refactoring along the way.  This also includes reintegration with
schooltool after their next release.

- Paul

Re: [Cando-devel] Re: Welsh Checking on CanDo Work Schedule for Coming Weekend/Week

[Tom H. <tom...@gm...>]

On 8/21/05, Paul Carduner <pau...@gm...> wrote:

> By this time I should have a pretty good idea of the lay of the land
> as far as college work load and free-time is concerned.  I intend to
> not only stay with the project as a maintainer but also to develope
> whatever new features Jeff has in mind and do some architectural
> refactoring along the way.  This also includes reintegration with
> schooltool after their next release.

Hi Paul,

Congratulations on making such great progress with CanDo.  I'm very impress=
ed.

The new release of SchoolTool, that is, 0.11 is out now.  This will be
the stable branch for this school year.  We'll be doing bugfixes, etc.
 As we switch away from calendaring to work on the other student
information system stuff, we'll also revert to putting out developer
milestones instead of real releases, since there is no reason to think
people will start using, say, our online gradebook, in production in
the middle of the year.  Hopefully people will poke at it and test it,
etc., but these won't really be supported releases.

So you should probably just settle on 0.11 for production use.  We
will be doing a bugfix release in a couple weeks and probably another
release when Zope 3.1 is done.  At that point we won't have to ship a
whole Zope 3 with the .deb packages.

Also, Stephan Richter has completely ripped apart the old structure of
SchoolTool and SchoolBell and put it back together again in a more
rational structure that mirrors the structure of Zope 3 more
explicitly.  He's working on it here:=20
http://source.schooltool.org/svn/branches/srichter-refactor/schooltool/
 This will end up being the basis for the upcoming milestones and a
spring release, and I imagine next year's CanDo, but I don't think you
should use it this year.

--Tom