Another Seaside 2.9 Sprint is over. We are trying to do these sprints more regularly now. This time the sprint took place in Bern. The participants were Michael Davies, Julian Fitzell, Philippe Marschal (from left to right in the picture below) and myself (taking the picture). We continued to work on what we started in Amsterdam.
The Seaside Sprint in Amsterdam was a big success. We fixed more than 20 open issues from the bug tracker and did some important refactorings to the code base. We also openend a few new issues that we discovered while working on the code.
On Tuesday I gave a 15 minutes presentation on Magritte to give a quick overview and prepare people for the following panel discussion. The slides are available to download here. James Robertson blogged about my presentation as well as the following panel discussion.
My presentation on the latest news around Seaside and how we achieve portability along its 6 supported platforms went well. Those that missed the presentation might want to check out the Seaside Presentation ESUG 2008. James Robertson posted a summary.
Magritte for Seaside allows one to automatically build Seaside components from descriptive objects. There are several possibilities to customize this 3 step process:
Avi announced that the latest version of Dabble DB is running on Seaside 2.8:
The Seaside core team is happy to announce the first official Seaside Sprint held in Amsterdam. The Sprint starts right after the last ESUG presentation and is basically open ended:
Philippe and I did another Seaside Sprint today. We worked towards a maintenance release of Seaside 2.8.2. The bad news is that we couldn't figure out a clean fix for bug 71, what causes this release to be delayed for at least another week.
Philippe is working on UTF-8 support for URLs in Seaside 2.9. The test results look exciting:
The improved version of the tutorial An Introduction to Seaside by the HPI Software Architecture Group is now available for print on Lulu. I just ordered a copy.