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This release sports the basic set of features that you can expect from Specto's goals. We consider this release an ALPHA release. That means Specto works very well for us and we are providing this to you in the hope that it will be useful to you, but we are not guaranteeing that it it will be perfect just yet. At the time of this writing, there are four (4) known bugs in the bug tracker.
We decided to do the first release in time for Ubuntu Linux's “Feisty Fawn” version freeze (February 8th). This way, “Feisty” users can provide us with some feedback. Packages for Ubuntu are already available, and might also appear in Feisty's universe soon. If you want to provide packages for your favorite distribution, feel free to contact us. Thanks to all for your awesome contributions, this release seriously rocks!... read more

For the users' and the developers' general awareness, we moved to Google Code for SVN, the issue tracker and the mailing lists (which will be handled by Google Groups).

Visit http://code.google.com/p/specto

Jeff (a.k.a. Kiddo) will provide gmail account invitations to anyone who wants developer access to the project. Just ask and you shall receive.

Today, we are doing the first official release of Specto! This release sports the basic set of features that you can expect from Specto's initial goals. We consider this release an ALPHA release. That means Specto works very well for us and we are providing this to you in the hope that it will be useful to you, but we are not guaranteeing that it it will be perfect just yet. At the time of this writing, there are seven (7) known bugs in the bug tracker (one of which really matters). Expect the functionality to work, but it may feel a bit... Edgy!
Indeed, this project has existed for some time now and, since it is quite feature-complete, we decided to do the first release in time for Ubuntu Linux's "Edgy Eft" release (october 26th). This way, "edgy" users can provide us with some feedback.... read more

For those of you who were watching us all that time since ... last year? Be assured, we are certainly not dead. Specto is doing quite well these days. I just wanted to post a news there to confirm our presence, and to announce, for those who don't know yet, that a documentation wiki is up and running on http://specto.ecchi.ca. This allows to have a decent user manual and a developer reference.

Maybe this website would benefit a bit of an overhaul when we release Specto 0.1...