Zeena School Management / Blog: Recent posts

Nilanga Nayanajith has joined the project as a developer. He has more than seven years of experience in the IT industry and has worked in other open source projects too.
He will be focusing on
1. Symfony 2 conversion
2. Adding school module
3. Revamped UI with a new look and feel

I thank him for his intereset, and its a pleasure working with him.

Welcome, Nilanga! We are a team now!!
Wow!

Decided to convert the project to symfony 2 as the current project is based on outdated symfony 1.4.
Quickly converting to symfony 2 and adding features from there will give a longer life to the effort being put.

0.9.1 Release is made. Done.

Should I focus on documentation and user training? Or, Should I immediately work on 0.9.2 and add a nice installer to it?

I am thinking of an installer because I am not sure how many users will follow the long list of instructions in the README.txt. Not sure how many are getting frustrated.

I think I should go ahead with the training materials, and the first training material should be a how to install video.... read more

New features:
1. Import students through "Master Setup" -> "Import Students" menu
2. Import a batch of students to a particular class through "Master Setup" -> "Setup Classes", and then, from the left sidebar menu, "Classes" -> "Import Students to Classes"

Now admins can
1. Import students
2. Assign students to classes

by filling a CSV (excel) sheet and uploading. Planning to release this as 0.9.1

Until now, there was no way for a user to give any kind of feedback, other than replying to the blog. I was considering two options for user feedback.
1. Discussions
2. Tickets

I Started using the ticketing system but didn't enable it for all the users. I have also enabled forums to discuss the features and defects for now. Ideally defects and features should be tracked through the ticketing system, but until the ticketing system matures, forums should be easier to maintain and manage.... read more

The next feature coming in is importing students into the system.

This would help users to get some hands on experience pretty quickly.

Although the code was functional, I just noticed I have not added a build file, and Readme is missing unless someone extracts the file and finds out.

Added the build, and added a readme to the folder.

Hoping to get some feedback from users.