Unha breve nota para comentar que LibrePlan vai estar nas próximas Xornadas Libres, organizadas por GPUL na Facultade de Informática da Coruña. Vou ter ocasión de voltar á facultade para presentar a ferramenta e, con sorte, volver a ver algunhas caras coñecidas.
O meu turno é o martes 24 ás 18:00, pero non perdades ocasión de asistir tamén a outras charlas. ¡Véxovos alí!
Today we are releasing the latest version of LibrePlan, numbered 1.2.3. The star of this release is the addition of the money cost monitoring system implemented by my team mate Manuel Rego, but there is a number of fixes added since the last release only one month ago, impacting small bugs, stability and performance.
The team is working hard to keep polishing the tool with the feedback of our users, while we work in new features for the next major release. We have some nice charts with new performance indicators, have improved the behaviour of the WBS table, and we keep working on other items in our roadmap. We had to delay the release date, but it’s worth waiting; meanwhile, download and try this new version!
We are building a more polished and stable planning tool day by day. Congratulations to all the members of LibrePlan community!
It’s been a long time since the last post about this tool. It was the announcement of beta 2, and a lot of things have been done in the >50 patches committed since then. Let’s review and update the TODO file of the last release:
Besides, there are bug fixes and usability improvements. All these changes can be seen in action in the public demo site [EDIT: demo site not available any more].
As you can see, there’s little left to do to announce the final 2.0 release. But that won’t be the end of the road, but a milestone to take breath and keep coding.
I’ve been asked whether it was possible to install PhpReport in a Windows box or not, so I tried it and wrote the steps down in the INSTALL file. And now we have more concrete and precise installation instructions for Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat/Fedora or Windows systems, I felt like it was a good idea to package the application again, together with the bug fixes we pushed along the way. Take a look at the list of changes in the NEWS file.
Files can be downloaded here:
And they are also available in the project page.
Yesterday I silently added a link in PhpReport web page:
Lately I’ve been working on the simplification of the installation process; now it’s not necessary to download external libraries or set any special php.ini parameters, and I’ve added a database setup wizard taken from PhpReport 1.x series, which in turn was based on the one from WordPress project. So now to install PhpReport, you only have to extract the tarball, create the database and open the installation wizard from a browser to let it create the tables and initial data. More work will be needed anyway, to set up other installation methods (.deb packages, for example) and write specific instructions for different operating systems or distributions.
And this is the beginning of a release process. I will try to release new versions as I implement new features, giving priority to those listed in the TODO file, and provide update paths between them (unlikely at the moment, but it could happen in the future). And now I’ve mentioned the TODO, it lists the changes I consider essential to release a final, stable 2.0 version. Any volunteers? 😀