[Core-lan-org-devel] Announcing WebCollab

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

Hi all,

Just to let the list know that I've been quietly developing a fork to
Core for some time now. It's called WebCollab and it's also hosted a
Sourceforge.

I actually started the fork back in June 2002, but it didn't appear on
Sourceforge until March 2003.  Intially my development of the two
projects worked nicely, the cross pollination of code between them has
been beneficial to both projects.  However the underlying WebCollab code
has now moved significantly away from Core.  As a result, I haven't been
doing much Core development in the last few months.

WebCollab is proving to be very stable and reliable, is optimised for
MYSQL, and has been translated into Spanish (with French in the CVS). 
Appearance wise it still appears similar to Core, and most of the
functions are similar.  Almost all the code now in CVS has now been
rewritten or altered.

The principal (possible) drawback for Core users is that WebCollab does
not have time accounting.  Time accounting in Core 2.02 was buggy, but
(hopefully) is fixed in version 2.10 beta.  Personally I found the
integration of time accounting and deadline projects unwieldy, and it
was one of my motivators to start WebCollab.  So, no - I don't want to
code that in. 

WebCollab can be found at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/webcollab/ 

Regards

Andrew Simpson