Progress towards release
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Delays
The recent incident right before
Ross went on vacation set our schedule back a bit. Everyone
should have to spend a week doing system admin tasks to gain a greater
appreciation of how much of your time they can absorb. I still
don't quite have Brian's machine back to full functionality and the
staff home directory backups aren't 100% either. Fortunately Ross
gets back this week.
Progress
In the month since I first posted about the upcoming open-source release we've made great progress completing the list. In fact, every one of the required items has been completed. We set up one of the new blade servers for testing and things seem to be going well. The most common type of bugs turning up are security settings that we made in the ZMI but apparently never scripted for new site setup. Easily found and easily fixed.
I'm also making progress on what turned out to be a big ticket item that didn't make it on my list. Emmanuel Pietriga, the author of the mathmlc2p.xsl stylesheet we use to transform content MathML into presentation MathML, has agreed to release a new version under the LGPL. This is wonderful news for us since we use a heavily modified copy and would like to redistribute our changes. Unfortunately that file has been through a long and contorted history in our repository and splitting out the changes Emmanuel might be interested in including is long tedious work. I'm down to creating the last few patches, though, so that should be done today or tomorrow. One good thing to come out of this is that I'm doing cleanups as I go so the result should be nicer code than we've ever had (what were we thinking on some of those changes??)
What's left
- finishing splitting out mathmlc2p.xsl changes into patches
- figure out a way to package help files with release
- put license information in all release files
- write READMEs for all packages
- improve installation instructions
- put out a beta and have some people test the install
