[Wasp-development] WASP is Established...

[Brian F. <bf...@pa...>]

... now lets keep running!

With multiple front page spots on digg.com and now the O'Reilly ONLamp 
article exposure, WASP is an established PHP framework in the OSS 
community.  It feels great to have gotten this far, thanks to all who 
have made this possible.

However, as more and more people begin to use WASP for their personal 
and professional applications, we have a responsibility to keep making 
WASP better.  Version 1.2 is in the can and ready for release in just a 
few days, and a lot of great things are happening with 1.3, 1.4, and 
2.0.  Let's make sure we treat them as we would any major product 
release so people can have confidence in the quality of what we are 
producing.

Here are some of the other things I'd like to do:
- create a separate WASP user list and/or forum
- finish WASP demo app (gojobby.com)
- redesign of the home page and logo
- get a pre-built XAMPP package (windows/linux) built and made available
- PHPUnit integration 
(http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2005/12/08/phpunit.html)

I'm currently writing two more articles, and will be helping out with 
coding work on upcoming releases.  With this new momentum, I'd like try 
to bring more contributors on board.

Ultimately I'd like to get to the point where the answer to the question 
of "Why should we use PHP5?" is most decidedly, "So we can use WASP."

-- Brian Fioca