[MD-ASPNET] Final status report

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Michael Hutchinson

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Aug 22, 2006, 3:34:37 AM8/22/06

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Successes
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* Hooked the AspNetEdit addin into the MD build/install system. It's now ready
for use!
* Fixed Mozilla chrome deployment on Mozilla 1.7 and Firefox 1.5.
* Some work on core deployment APIs and ASP.NET deployer; they work, but are
not ready for release.
* Some work on supporting Global.asax and Web.config files; also not ready for
release.
* Other misc fixes.

Problems
========
* Reprioritising on 'getting it working' this week meant I avoided most of
the weekly targets I'd set
* The deployment code and some of my other code works, but is not polished
enough for release. I also didn't want to make any big Core changes or add
translatable strings so close to a MD release. I shall keep my code
incubating for a few weeks, but a full dump of the changes in my local MD
source tree changes is available at
http://mjhutchinson.com/files/EndOfSoC06.diff. I'll keep it there until the
changes are integrated into the main tree.

Plans for next week
===================
* Sleep.
* Sort out the 5 years' mess on my hard discs :)

Plans for the long term
=======================
SoC's been a fantastic experience. What was new for me was becoming familiar
with working with a large and well-designed codebase, and I think this has
probably improved my own coding a lot. Lluis has been very helpful whenever
I had any questions -- thanks for the design discussions, and putting up with
some of my silly suggestions! Thanks also to Miguel for picking my application,
and thanks to everyone on #monodevelop and #mono IRC for being such a great
community to work with.

I now have lots of plans for little features that I'd like to add to my code.
Sometime in the next few weeks I will document this list, and I plan to provide
a stream of implementations over the next few terms! I hope that other people
will also take part in testing and developing the addin. I'd also like to start
a few personal ASP.NET projects so that I can get a proper feel for developing
with the addin.