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Achievo 1.3.2

nospam@example.com (Sandy Pleyte) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:07:48 +0100

Today we released a bugfix release for Achievo 1.3, this will bring the current version up to 1.3.2. This release fixes 8 bugs that have been reported by the community and sponsors. I'd like to thank the forum users for their help with finding the bugs and even for providing me fixes for the bugs they found.

You can download and read the list of changes here.

Sandy

Achievo 1.3.1

nospam@example.com (Sandy Pleyte) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:33:19 +0100

2 Weeks after the major 1.3 release I received 2 serious bugs from the community (thanks for reporting them). Of course most of the time I try to test everything, but I am using (and testing) Achievo in the same way as I develop it. The result is that I don't always find those bugs.

So here is the first bugfix release with 4 bugfixes, you can read the details here.

Sandy

SVN and Ohloh

nospam@example.com (Sandy Pleyte) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:50:27 +0100

I nagged a long time for it at the company where I work (almost 2 years ), but we now have a public SVN server for Achievo and the Achievo modules. So if you want to develop some code, you can now use SVN for updating your achievo to the latest version. I made an SVN page where you can find all details. A web based SVN viewer is also on the planning, but I will report on it later.

Thanks to this SVN repository I also could add the Achievo project to Ohloh. This site analyses applications based on their source code and full svn history and gives some pretty cool statistics.

Sandy

Achievo 1.3.0 and a brand new website

nospam@example.com (Sandy Pleyte) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:59:00 +0100

I'm thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Achievo 1.3.0 This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to Achievo 1.3.0. The major changes are the new modules that are added to the Achievo core modules. The modules are:

Quotation module, for managing quotations.
Document manager, for adding documents to projects, quotations and organizations.
CRM Module, this will add some CRM features to the organization/contacts (see the new sales main menu).
A brand new Scheduler module with recurring events.

Also more than 100 improvements are done in this release and we moved to PHP5.
In case you run into problems please post your problem in the forum.

To celebrate this long awaiting release Ibuildings sponsored a brand new website for the Achievo project.
I'm still busy with completing the site, so it's possible that some pages are missing.

Enjoy,

Sandy

Achievo 1.3.RC2

nospam@example.com (Sandy Pleyte) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:29:00 +0100

Finally after more then 4 months a second release candidate for Achievo 1.3. A list of changes and other important information about this release, or to download it, see the release-notes.

For the people who are wondering when the final release will be, I have some news. I planned to release Achievo 1.3 Final in the weekend of 9/10 februari!

Achievo 1.3.RC1

nospam@example.com (Sandy Pleyte) — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:38:00 +0200

This release marks the first step towards Achievo 1.3.

For a list of changes and other important information about this release, or to download it, see the release-notes.

Stepping down

nospam@example.com (Ivo Jansch) — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:02:19 +0100

For almost 6 years, I've been the lead developer of the Achievo Project Management application. It has always been an interesting project. While being a relatively small application, among larger suites such as phpGroupware, we've always tried to keep it simple, targeted at a certain set of functionality, with a specific focus. I think we succeeded in doing so, as because of this, it appeals to a specific set of users and mainly to smaller companies with small projects they need to track.

About 5 months after its first release, we rewrote Achievo from scratch, because a community started to form that demanded new features that were time consuming to add, even if it was just the addition of a new field. Achievo was in fact the first thing I ever wrote in PHP, so the code was not something to be proud of. We learned an important lesson from that first release, and we replaced the large set of php scripts with clean, object oriented code, and the basis of this quickly became a framework. About two years ago the framework had evolved enough to stand on it's own, and the ATK framework was released as a separate product.

Since then, ATK has seen a lot of growth. Last year, the ATK community became larger than the original Achievo community, and as such, took up a lot more of my time. Also, I'm working hard to get my own company, epointment up and running.

The result is that the Achievo Project Management application does not get the amount of attention that it deserves anymore. This is painfully evident in the release frequency, the last stable release was (although development never stopped) a year ago. This is not motivating for the developers that are working on new features, and it's not good for the community.

So I've made the decision to hand over the Achievo Project Management app, so I can concentrate on ATK and epointment. The most likely candidate for taking over is Sandy Pleyte, as he has been one of the main developers since the start, and has always fueled Achievo development. I've discussed the future of Achievo with him, and he has a lot of ideas, both for functionality and for restructuring the development process, so I'm confident that Achievo is in good hands with him.

This does not mean I will leave the project entirely. I will remain on the development team, and will continue to work together with the rest of the team. It's just that I think the project maintainer should be able to have more dedication for the project than I am currently able to offer.

So I think this is what's best for the project, and I wish Sandy the best of luck. You will probably start seeing the results of this very soon, as Sandy is eager to put his plans to action.

The Pizza Guides - Part 3, Chapter 1

nospam@example.com (Ivo Jansch) — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 21:48:19 +0200

People who develop extensions for the Achievo project manager, or even applications in ATK, use the pizza guides as a first introduction into developing using the ATK framework.

I often get the question where Part 3 can be downloaded. Problem is, I never found the time to finish it. I've got one chapter, and an idea what the rest of the document should contain. Since it doesn't seem to get finished anytime soon, I'll post what I have so far here:

Developing Achievo Extensions, Part 3 (Advanced)

The chapter talks about node modifiers. This is a method to change nodes without actually touching their code. This is a powerful way to extend ATK modules.

The first two guides should be revised sometime for ATK5, they were written in 2002, and ATK has come a long way since then. But they still have some use as the basics have not changed much.

I do accept incentives to complete the series.