Before I get started with the usual mumbo-jumbo, it should be noted that one of our new developers, Kevin Foote and his wife, has just given birth to a new baby boy. Actually, I think his wife did all the work, but I want to personally thank her for letting Kevin hack around on bashblogger and congratulate them both on their birth of a new son.
Kevin's been working on the importRSS function that allows you to import your old site into a newer version of bashblogger. It would appear that I broke importRSS with the changes to 0.3.6 and he and Doug have been making solid work on fixing and improving my mistakes.
Doug has provided the development team with a subversion repository and several other collaborative development tools. Access to the repository is "developer only" but I have set up a cron job to download a daily snapshot of the current progress and generate a tarball. You'll find a link to the daily-snapshot over to the side under "Download".
If you downloaded the 0.3.6 release and have been having problems, you may want to give the daily-snapshot a go. There are several bugs that have been fixed. I'd list them all here, but, needless to say, the CHANGELOG will be substantially longer in the 0.3.7 release. Just to give you an idea, there have been 23 svn commits this week. Also, the themes that are working with the new HTML5 templates are included in the tarball.
Additionally, I've set up a developer mailing list since the vast majority of you don't have access to our bug tracker. I haven't really determined what the tone of the list should be, but if it starts drifting too far off topic, I may also set up a users mailing list. We'll see how it goes.
Finally, I think I'm past the point where I can continue releasing bashblogger without documentation. The wiki hasn't been used in a way that I'd expected, (or, let's face it, at all), so I'll be re-tasking the wiki for the bashblogger manual. If there are some things you'd like to get in there before the changeover, you'd better do it quick. Probably by this weekend, I'll change the password over and start adding documentation. Any user additions will be worked into the new layout, but I'm probably going to be making sweeping changes.
I think that's all for now. We've still got a few additions and some tests to run, but 0.3.7 should be ready to go pretty soon (think days not months).
Posted by Phil McClure in General on August 09, 2007