pcplantdb

[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Chad Knepp wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Are you wondering where the promised 0.3.1 is?  Hmmm, so am I.  Well
> as you may have suspected I've been off in the real world of working
> on my barn and dealing with a garden that suddenly came from near
> death by drought into stuff rotting on the plants because I can't keep
> up... not to mention this community building stuff that seems to take
> a lot of time but doesn't result in anything.
Yep community building can be hard work, but lack of it has caused pfaf 
a lot of problems. Also remember piw took about two years of comunity 
building before we really got started, 3000 emails and counting!

> Anyway, I'm pretty sure that even the end of Sept. is an unrealistic
> expectation for a 1.0 so lets rethink it and examine the consequences.
> I'd like to suggest that we now aim for the end of the year as our 1.0
> goal if this would be acceptable to all of us, Threshold, and
> Scott/PCI.  

It fine by me if we square it with Threshold.

> How about this as a timeline:
>
> Now till Nov. 1st: Very relaxed development unless we get really
>   inspired, but no expectation of getting much done other than
>   incremental improvements.  In particular I'm interested in making
>   the interface more friendly/intuitive/cleanera if folks can suggest
>   how.  I'll also fix any bugs and implement the remaining small
>   things on my 0.3.1 todo list.

Could you post the list again?

I'm happy if we basically just bug fix from now. I think threshold will 
be happy with what we've got.

>   Also, it would be good to let Threshold know that we are doing good
>   things, point out dev and that we will have a final report and a 1.0
>   release available in 2006.
>
> Nov. 1st - Nov. 14th: 0.4.0 relationships and GBI
>
> Nov. 15th - Dec. 1st:  Late breaking features, possibly fun stuff like
> images and moderation (off the clock).
Images fine. Moderation sounds like it could be tricky plus I'm not sure 
if its that necessary for current use levels.

> December: Feature freeze, final testing, cleanup, roll out.
>
> Jan. 1, 2006: PIW 1.0
>
> Waddya thank?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Chad
p.s. I've forgotton how to acess the mysql. Could you remind me?

Rich