04 April 2007
Jumptree Project Management - Official Release is Two Weeks Away and Counting
We’ve just updated and released the beta 1.0.0.1 version.
There are a couple of things we fixed based on user feedbacks
- Installer Errors – A few of the beta testers encountered the Email Warning at the end of the installer. This has been fixed because there was a concurrent accessing error when reading the email configuration file.
In addition, from users’ descriptions, there seems to a problem updating connection string in the configuration file. We realized our installer was not logging all the information needed for customer support, such in this edition, we added a full logging stack and in case any of you encounters any problems in the future, simply post back the content of the log files will be sufficient
- Business Rules – A few beta testers pointed out some confusion over the statistics that we are reporting for the projects and we are glad that people are testing it to that extend. While we fixed some in this edition, we felt it’s not enough. We will go through all the stats modules and make sure everything is crystal clear.
- Cosmetic Fixes – There were a few bugs in the GUI interface here and there, such as missing css class names for divs and what not. These have been fixed as well.
Some people have been asking us if we provide the source code and the answer is not 100%. What do I mean by that? For the trial version, all pages are pre-compiled and NOT updatable. Meaning if you open up any of the .aspx file, you won't see anything there. However, for the commercial release (either through purchase or if you are approved for being a non-profit organization), then you will see the source code of all the .aspx code behind.
At this point, we do not provide any API for customers as we are not ready to do that just yet, but if you have ASP.NET developer in house, by reading the code, you will be able to customize the logic to certain extend. Just a note, we do not provide offical support for customizing the application. However, if you post any questions on our forum in the future, we will try our best to answer your questions.
Other than the software itself, we still have a few things left to do. For open source projects or special individuals, we have a special “Approval” process to implement. Once approved, these people will be able to get unlimited licenses for our software and this has to be incorporated into the customer management portal that we have here for our customers.
Furthermore, we are near completion with the documentation and user manual, it should answers a lot of the simple questions that you might ask yourself. It will help a lot in case you have any questions regarding the usage of the software.
In addition, forum has to be updated as our existing forum is missing a few features that we need. I’ve been creating a new forum using NHibernate as we are already considering restructuring the data access layer of our software using NHibernate for the next release. This will expand the databases that we can support for the needs of different customers. It gives us a good starting point.
Finally, our purchase system use Paypal on the backend, we’ve been testing in the Paypal sandbox account and we are ready now to switch to the official commercial version this week. We think the transition should be rather painless and all that’s left to do is to re-test the purchase process once again.
Thanks again for your patience and we hope to see you again in two weeks.
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