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The three Ts
Which Ts are these? Well, lets start with the first, Time. Just a lame excuse to why I haven't written anything here for a long time. I've had precious little time for this blog lately. Time has been spent on non-D work, moving, refurbishing a kitchen, writing a book. And the latter is probably a major reason, writing books seems to zap a lot of writing power, making for a sad blogging statistics. We're highly excited about the end product though :) The book, that is.
The second T is of course Tango. Tango has gone through 2 releases, and soon gains the 3rd since my last post. I won't even consider delving into the relevant features at this point, they are rather numerous. The number of users and contributors seems to be steadily rising, and perhaps especially the ticket count which is now well above 800. Our big test in that respect, will be how well we can keep the open ticket count down. Most open tickets are enhancement requests though, and these take time. We don't dismiss such requests just for the sake of it, and they are kept open until we are absolutely sure of what the resolution should be.
The most important contributions lately, are probably documentation. Frank Benoit in particular has been incredible at filling empty spaces in our manual. There are preciously few left of those, but the documentation can of course always improve.
The third T is for TODO. In a project as sizable as Tango, there are always TODOs. I have a whole bunch of them for myself, some I delegate to others, some are taken by others, some are just general TODOs waiting for a taker. My most important TODO is keeping my Tango ticket count as managable as possible. I have no qualms in delegating these to others to achieve that :) In the next few days, preparations for the next release are the most important. At some point I ended up as Tango's release manager, and although I've been able to streamline a lot of the necessary work, there are still quite a few bits that needs love and care for each and every release. These are mostly the various pages tied to a release, but also creation of packages, testing them, testing Tango, and if possible, testing compilers. Being a spare time project, these tasks tends to be completed later in the release cycle than they should, but that's life.
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