By admin on
Monday, October 08, 2007
Some people may have noticed that the issue tracker at support.bugnetproject.com was upgraded to version 0.7.881 that has not yet been released to the public.
The next release is a bug fix release but there are a few more issues to complete that will delay this release for a short while. This combined with the recent Canadian thanksgiving holiday and myself getting ready for a vacation to Scotland has left me with no time to work on the remaining issues.
Expect the new release to be out at the end of the month or shortly into November after my vacation.
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By admin on
Thursday, August 16, 2007
It has been quite a while since I have given any updates but the project has not been idle.
Before we begin, just a quick note that the site may be down tomorrow August 16th, 2007 8pm EST for 3-4 hours due to my hosting provider having an outage.
There are many issues, new features and improvements to address and it seems new ones are reported almost daily. Over the last past while I have found time to complete some of these issues but also add some great improvements to the BugNET application.
Categories
One of the improvements I am sure is most welcome is categories can now be renamed from the administration area. In addition to this I ha ...
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By admin on
Saturday, May 26, 2007
It has been a month since the last update, it is spring and the weather is nice. It has been hard to keep visual studio open for a decent amount of time lately but I have managed to fix a few major outstanding issues from the last release.
I will try to package these changes up very soon (within the week) and put out a new release to keep the application moving forward.
Edit
Recently DotNetNuke (DNN) has release their latest version of the Wiki Module. Currently this website is using the beta of that module but there is not a supported upgrade path to the new module which is a complete rewrite and contains much more funtionality. I will be looking at how , even if i ...
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By admin on
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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.
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By admin on
Monday, February 12, 2007
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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By admin on
Sunday, December 10, 2006
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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By admin on
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
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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By admin on
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
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:
- Windows Authentication
- Upgrade Scripts
The latter being the most tricky there has been a number of database changes that will need to be addressed in the upgrade scripts while retaining integrity with previous data.
I urge anyone that is using the latest source ...
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By admin on
Friday, June 16, 2006
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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By admin on
Thursday, May 25, 2006
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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