Posted
4 months
ago
Short answer: We're taking some vacation time.
Since the two core devs are both students (Jay and I), we get busy every now and then. Right now the project is slowing down due to the fact that we're busy with school-related things. I'm even
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busy during the summer with school projects. For me, things should start to slow down near October, but I can't guarantee anything. I have no clue what's going on with Jay, but I still talk with him, so he's still alive.
The other thing is that we're still trying to figure out what we're going to do with 2.0. We don't really know what exactly we want to do, and how we want to do things. I think pretty soon I'm just going to start a thread on the forums, so maybe we can get some ideas flowing, maybe we can draw up some concepts. Steven had a few good ideas, and so did Jay and I, we just need to plan things out so that we know exactly how we're going to code things and what not..
Hopefully, we should be able to still finish up 1.0, and fix any bugs that we may have missed (so, updates like 1.0.1 and 1.0.2). The thing is, we didn't really test as we wrote 1.0, so it has a lot of bugs. This makes us core developers bored, and as a result, we want to do other things. In 2.0 this won't be a problem, since we're doing some strict unit testing, so we'll catch bugs earlier. At the time of writing, there's only three bugs open, so it's just a matter of someone finding the courage to fix the bugs and releasing 1.0 final. At this point though, I want to just get 1.0 out the door.
So yeah, the project has slowed down. Sorry for keeping you all waiting.
UPDATE: Jay is dead:
(01:24:00 PM) jay: I'm dead
(01:24:04 PM) jay: I'm talking to you
(01:24:09 PM) jay: from beyond
(01:24:10 PM) jay: k?
Note from Jay: Ignore our internal commentary, I'm still alive and kicking, just been busy with coursework recently. :) [Less]
Posted
5 months
ago
Well, we're happy to say that we're getting ready to release 1.0 final! Today and tomorrow we'll be testing Lucid for bugs that we might have missed. The next release should be the final release, so please, test Lucid out and see if you can find any problems with it. If you do find problems, make a new post in our forums. Thanks!
Posted
5 months
ago
Recently we've changed our repositories on Github. You can find all the new repositories on Lucid's Github page. The main repository can be found here.
If you don't want to bother with re-checking out from the new repository, you can simply
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do the following in a command line:
git remote rm origin
git remote add origin git://github.com/lucid/lucid.git
If you have the themes checked out (or any other repo, for that matter) and you want to update those as well, just replace that url with the public clone url from that repo. Also, feel free to follow us on Github. Thanks! [Less]
Posted
6 months
ago
Yesterday, we got a huge surge of traffic from an article on a Japanese blog called 'Moongift'. As a result, I'm sure there's a high demand for Japanese translations of Lucid. I could do some of the simpler translations, but some of them are much
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longer and require someone who knows the language (I'm still learning the basics).
So, if anyone is willing to help us out with Japanese translations, we would really appreciate it. Just make a post in our forums, and we'll help you get started. Translating everything is pretty simple, you don't even need to know how to program. Thanks! [Less]
Posted
6 months
ago
Since we've been dormant for the past few months, we've decided to hold a Developer Sprint this weekend, June 26-28. We'll be fixing up bugs for 1.0. By Monday, we'll have 1.0-RC2 ready to be released. We're inviting all community members to help us
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out by fixing bugs, and making sure everything is working flawlessly.
We will be giving out free Dojo t-shirts to anyone who provides an acceptable fix for any outstanding 1.0 bug or ticket. Below, you can see some people wearing the shirt at a local Dojo meetup. Just make sure you've filled out a CLA before friday, otherwise we can't accept your contribution. There aren't any skill or experience requirements, if you know PHP or Javascript/Dojo, then you can help us out.
We'll be setting up camp on the IRC channel, and in the forums. The information for the IRC channel can be found on the Community page. If you have any questions, or need help tackling a bug, just ask in either of those places and someone will help you out.
By Monday, we want to have RC2 finished. That way, we can release 1.0 a week later, provided we don't get any huge bug reports.
We'll be looking forward to meeting you all this weekend. I hope we have a good time, and get lots of work done! [Less]
Posted
7 months
ago
We put together another video using Codeswarm, but this time we decided to make one for Dojo. I forgot to explain what the dots mean in the last post... Basically each dot represents a file, and when a username shows up, it represents a commit from that user. You can view it on Youtube (HD recommended), or just watch it below.
Posted
7 months
ago
I put together a quick video of Lucid's code history using Codeswarm. Someone should totally do one for Dojo, I think it would look quite interesting. Anyways, you can view it on youtube (HD recommended), or view it below.
Posted
7 months
ago
With the launch of the new site, we've made some accounts on social networks for Lucid that you can follow. We're on Twitter, Facebook, among others. You can see the full list in the sidebar on the community page.
Sometimes we will post
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things on there that we don't put on the main site. We did this when we were working on getting the new site finished. Sometimes we talk about when we're planning on releasing a new version, ideas that we're throwing around, etc. By following us there, you'll be the first to know about what's going on with the project. [Less]
Posted
7 months
ago
Continuing the theme of local events, the dojo guys are continuing their world tour in Barcelona this time. If you're interested in meeting with some awesome Dojo users, you may want to take a look. More details on the Dojo blog. Let us know in the comments if you plan on going!
Posted
7 months
ago
Just a reminder, we really need your nominations for the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards this year. We're going to go for "Best Tool or Utility for Developers", and "Most Likely to Change The Way You Do Things". The link below will take you to
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the nomination form. It will take you two literally 10 seconds for each category, so please help us out! [Less]