Moving ahead

We are sorry, but in the latest month (years) we didn’t do a lot for the community. Now Ideato, a young Italian company, has decided to sponsoring us in the 3.0 development.

From on the release of 2.5 the 2.x development will be officially stopped and the code unsupported. If you still need help on it, on the community forum Mindblender will help you, but no bugfix or whatever will be official released.

As announced times ago, the new release will be based on Symfony framework and it will be placed on a new svn repository with a gitHub clone (so you can feel free to fork, branch and collaborate). As soon an usable alpha code release, very limited in functionalities, will be published we will start to eat our own dog food, using phpCollab to develop phpCollab.

Moreover we will work using Agile Methods and Extreme Programming. We will publish all the user stories decided until now and we will give you the ability to write your own suggestions and stories, then all the code will be created using a TDD approach to ensure to have a product fully unit and functional tested.

Ideato is also actively working to ensure to have any important things such a good interface based on IA and UX principles absolutely needed by a software like this. But If you have interesting ideas fell free to contact us.

Stay tuned.

Version 2.5

Is coming very soon!

We are finishing up the remaining bugs, which are for PostgreSQL. Once those are completed, we will be releasing version 2.5.

Also, with the 2.5 release we will offer a XAMPP Windows package. This will allow people to get up and running practically immediately in a windows environment. More details to come.

Request: Looking for testers.

We are looking for some additional people to help test phpCollab so we can get the next release out.

If you are interested, please post here and let us know.

thanks.

Development has started once again!!

UPDATE: Originally we planned to release 2.5 stable after 2.5RC3, however, after fixing a lot of bugs in 2.5, we are going to release another RC version before the stable release. Hopefully we will get 2.5RC4 released in the near future (read in the next month or two at the latest). We are trying to polish off some of the high priority bugs such as the JPGraph and security issues before we release 2.5RC4.

Please, help us flush out any bugs by posting in the forums any issues you come across while using 2.5RC3 and 2.5RC4 (when it gets released).

Thanks! – PHPc Team

No, we are not dead..

But we are very busy with our “normal” jobs. Actually the only two quite-active developers are Mindblender and me. So the project goes on veeeeery slowly.

Btw If you want to help us (and yourself) please take a look on the bugs on the SourceForge bugs page and try to fix them ;).

If you want to become an active developer, the way is the same. After you’ll fix at least two major bugs and help a little on the forum I’ll give you a CVS account…

And if you sometimes check on the CVS there are fix and patch for phpCollab 2.5 [that actually is a lot more stable than 2.4]…