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Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:32:02 GMT

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 have spent some time implementing the great extjs ajax framework to add a treeview that allows you to drag and drop nodes to different parent categories. Categories in both the administration area and the project summary are also now sorted alphabetically.

Time Estimation

Another lacking feature has been the ability to add a time estimate to an issue. This is now possible on the new issue screen and then can be updated on the issue details screen. Also added is the total time logged on an issue. Still to be completed will be an initial estimation so you can see how the estimate compares to the actual amount of time the issue took to complete.

Milestones

The project summary up until now has displayed the versions of the project and the count off issues for those versions. This has been confusing for most users as you often want to see issues to be completed. This has now been changed to display the "milestones" formally known as "fix for version" and the number of issues that are to be completed for that version.

Roadmap

The roadmap has also been updated to not display any milestones when all issues are closed or completed. It also now displays issues that are "unscheduled" or that are not assigned a milestone to be fixed in.

Layout Improvements

As always, layout improvements have been added to clean up the UI and add styling to give the interface a cleaner look.

Documentation

I have recently had some time to start filling in the documentation (finally , yes I know). To do this I had to fix a few bugs in the current dotnetnuke wiki module as well. I will try to fill in the documentation as best as possible over the next few release cycles.

Next Release

The next release will contain these updates and be out very soon, probably the end of this month. There will probably be one more bug fix release soon after to wrap up some outstanding bugs then the focus will move towards version 0.8 and some long awaited features such as localization and custom queries. The project roadmap has been updated in the documentation wiki.

Thank you to everyone for their continued support.

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