BugNET

Look for a new version of the issue tracker by the weeks end.  This release will mostly be a stabilization release that has 40 resolved issues so far that includes bugs that were reported from the 0.7.820 release. I expect to fix 1 or 2 more outstanding issues to add to this list as well.

There has been a lot of excellent activity in the issue tracker and in the forums in response to the 0.7.820 release.  I thank all those that are reporting, discussing, fixing bugs or implementing new features.

For a full list of resolved issues so far please refer to the 0.7 Final version on the roadmap.

I have taken the last few days to setup and implement Continuous Integration for the BugNET project.  For those who are not familiar with this process please refer to this good article by Martin Fowler.

I am a big fan of this process and we have been using it where I work for sometime now.  Setting it up for this project is part of my plan to shorten the release cycles and put some structure behind the development process.  By implementing continuous integration and cruisecontrol.net there will always be deployable build and source packages, unit tested, documented and ready to go after each code check-in.  Unfortunately these builds will not be m ...
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In a forum post not to long ago sabrina_c suggested using the web.sitemap provider as a replacement to the "back" button and "return to menu" buttons that I had implemented in the 0.7 beta. 

I had heard about the new web.sitemap features in .NET 2.0 but till now haven't fully explored these features till now.  I started out constructing a web.sitemap for BugNET and it works great to create a breadcrumb style navigation.  The one problem I ran into was the web.sitemap is static when it comes to querystring properties (unless you hardcode them) which makes it unusable for many of the dynamic pages in the issue tracker.   Searching around I found a few links on how to "customize" the rendering of t ...
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It is getting close to the first release of version 0.7.X of the issue tracker (I promise).  The goal is by the end of October to have the first beta release.  For those adventurous types, the upgrade scripts are already in the SVN repository but there are still issues to work out before the end of the month. Please refer to the issue tracker for outstanding issues.

In order to prepare your installation for upgrading there are a few things that administrators should know.

• Since the user system has changed (once again) over to the .NET 2.0 Membership Provider users will have to have a unique email address.   If duplicate email addresses exist the upgrade will not function properly.
  

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I thought a quick status update of BugNET 0.7.0 would be in order since it has been under development for some time now.  There are two major components to address first and any outstanding bugs but after these are completed it is looking like we will be able to release the first public version of 0.7.0.

The two outstanding areas to work on are:

1. Windows Authentication
2. Upgrade Scripts

There has been a bit of discussion in the forums regarding the default project model for asp.net 2.0 and the new web application project model that was released by the asp.net team.

This new project model is very similar to the project model in visual studio 2003.

To make the BugNET solution easier to work with I have sucessfully converted the project to the web application model and is now in the subversion repository as BugNET_WAP.  The older project will remain for a short while but should not be modified. This change has seemed to speed up compiles and working with the solution in general.

A bit of info about the next release, 0.7.0 is now in testing by ...
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One of the more substantial changes to the next version of BugNET is the addition of custom fields.  The original ASP.NET Issue Tracker Starter kit which BugNET is based on did have this feature but was not seen as an essential feature at the time in BugNET.  With the addition of various fields to BugNET such as hardware, operating system & URL fields custom fields also did not seem necessary as a lot of extra information can be captured.

BugNET’s implementation of custom fields extends the initial design of the asp.net issue tracker starter kit which only allowed custom text fields to allow custom fields of Text, Date, dropdown List, yes/no (checkbox) and rich text. In the project administration (screenshot below) you can see ...
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Source Code

The up to date source code now lies in the subversion repository on sourceforge.net.  Subversion brings a ton of enhancements over cvs and makes it easier for others to contribute to the project.  Please review the instructions on how to work with subversion.

The source code for 0.66 will remain in the cvs repository for now.

Versioning

A new versioning scheme for the project will now take place to align with the Microsoft .NET best practices.

In the Microsoft .NET Framework, a version number has four components:

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I started a new blog just for development discussion.  One of my goals with the new site is to communicate more efficiently with users and project members about what is happening with the project.

In the past I haven’t talked much about a roadmap so let me start by saying that the 0.66 release is near completion, over the last few betas there has been several fixes and it is looking very stable at the moment.  I would like to release 0.66 on Sunday April 2nd.

For the most part users have seen the enhancements to this version and screenshots are now up for users that have not upgraded.

The next version 0.67 or BugNET 2005 will be moving the project to AS ...
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