After a lot of back and forth, we've finally settled on our first developer training session for 2008. The training is in New Orleans on March 18th and 19th before the NTen Conference. The exact venue is yet to be determined. If anyone is in New Orleans and can host us please let us know.
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The team has been working hard to fix issues and bugs reported by the community - and a second beta release of CiviCRM 2.0 is now available for download on SourceForge.
We strongly encourage folks to download and test the beta. If you have an existing CiviCRM install - please upgrade a test copy of your site. Your efforts are critical to help ensure a smooth transition and a quality final release. We especially need folks with existing Joomla installs to (re)test the upgrade process as we've fixed a number of issues there.
If you've already installed the initial 2.0 beta distribution - and have reported issues - please take the time to install beta 2 and verify that your issues have been resolved. There were no database changes from beta 1 to beta 2 - so you can simply over-write the beta 1 codebase.
I've included a listing of the 30 issues which were resolved between beta 1 and beta 2 below. You can see the current list of remaining open issues here.
Now that v2.0 has hit beta, its time for us to start thinking (and working) on v2.1. Yes, I know many of you have not yet downloaded v2.0 beta. Please consider downloading and testing the release NOW. This help us release a higher quality product :)
We are excited to announce that our 2.0 Beta release is now available for download, AND to try out on our demo site. You can find Release Highlights here, and check out the resolved issues listing for details on the 330+ improvements and bug fixes.
2.0 has significant code and schema changes to improve performance and scalability. The upgrade process is now a multi-step web-based process. We would like to encourage folks to download and test the beta release and help improve the final product. You can contribute significantly to the project by testing the upgrade process against a copy of your 1.9 data, as well as running your regular tasks on an upgraded site.
If you've implemented CiviCRM, please consider adding a case study to http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Case+Studies or the forums at http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/board,4.0.html. It would be great if you could include detailed descriptions of the implementation (custom fields used, profiles, special menus created for tasks) as well as obstacles, work-arounds, "results".
Dave Greenberg sent this to the civicrm-dev list, but I don't see it in the blog so I'm posting his message here. -- Judy Hallman
If you're attending (or thinking about attending) NTEN's Non-profit Technology Conference in New Orleans this March - check out these CiviCRM related happenings...
******************************************************** Developer Bootcamp - March 18-19 in New Orleans ********************************************************
After 2.5 weeks in India, the Polish team is happy (hmm...?) to report safe landing in Warsaw last Tuesday. :-) We spent the first two weeks in Mumbai, hanging out with our mates from the India team, and with Lobo. Before that, I had the opportunity to meet only some members of the team, during other travels. It was the first time, when (almost) the whole group was gathered in a single physical space.
Last week we got some feedback on the dynamic Contact Search feature - in the form of a bug report. The topic was "Autofill is too aggressive". The search box was being auto-filled based on the first few letters typed - and the auto-filling was often NOT helpful. It sometimes jumped ahead and completed the field with a different name then the one they were looking for.
We continued with work in team strategy, helping team members to learn / share the work strategy and approach towards a problem. In last 5-6 days we have resolved 25 issues, created 29 and closed 43 issues which is the indication of better QA towards v2.0.
Earlier this week I had an opportunity to meet with folks at the Glide Foundation in San Francisco. Glide "empowers San Francisco’s poor and disenfranchised to make meaningful changes in their lives to break the cycle of poverty and dependence" by providing an amazing range of programs from meals to housing, health services, employment training and more.
