Developer release, screencast, and sources

[Douglas Mayle]

Hello everybody,

For my first email to the list, I wanted to talk about the latest development release of DVDev.  I've created a screencast to highlight the features: http://dvdev.org/docs/ScreenCasts/DVDevIssues.mov

DVDev 0.1.3 includes YAMLTrak 0.6.3, which is pretty complete at this point.  This means that there is a command line client to the issue database that can do all of the standard operations you expect.  Some niceties include the ability to find open issues by files they're related to, and guessing the ticket you're working on by examining the uncommitted changeset. 

The next feature that I'll be working on is the wiki, which is composed of a library called MarkaWiki (the Markup Wiki) which is mostly just an interface to the combination file storage / repository combo.  It doesn't assume the markup you're working with, be it Markdown, reST, or straight up HTML.  For now, DVDev will be using reST to tie in with python projects.   Completing this will bring us up to version 0.2, the first public official release of DVDev.

After that comes authorization with repoze.what.  Getting this working, along with exposing private repositories, and admin screens for merging will lead us to DVDev 0.3, the first hosting version of DVDev.

Finally comes polish and design, which will lead us to 0.4, the first general release version.  User feedback at this point should allow us to develop the plan further.

Douglas Mayle

P.S. I mentioned the sources.  All of DVDev is now hosted at dvdev.org, so check out http://dvdev.org/source