We released a translation release of KnowledgeTree for people interested in KT in their own language, and I put together a how to make a language plugin for KT in five minutes page. For some reason, when originally looking at language, I didn't want to go with a login-time language selector, but now I think it looks rather cool:
500 issues down...
28 Mar
Just noticed in the KnowledgeTree support tracker that we've closed 500 issues in KnowledgeTree. Nearly 127 issues accepted (ie, we will try to do them) and 58 issues unconfirmed (ie, we don't know if they're real problems or if the feature will be implemented). 50 issues to implement by 3.0.2 (24th April).
Example KnowledgeTree Plugin
27 Mar
A while back, I wrote a quick plugin to show off the basic plugin layout and to make the contributed plugins page not empty. The plugin checked uploaded documents for viruses with ClamAV.
Testing caching
27 Mar
I was planning on spending ages improving the caching on KnowledgeTree by adding caching to our entity and query layer and testing as I go. Brad immediately realises that we can be courageous about this if we turn caching on for our entity/ORM layer, and our testing is simply doing the work anyway and comparing to the cached result. Number of problems encountered so far? About three. Time saved? Days. Now why couldn't I think of that?
KnowledgeTree translation
27 Mar
Since Friday my focus on KnowledgeTree has been translation support for KnowledgeTree. The major items I'm working on are escaping gettext, language plugins, language selection at login, and improving the marking up of strings to be translated.
It's been three weeks since we release version 3.0.0, and things with KnowledgeTree have not been slow. On Monday, we released KnowledgeTree 3.0.1 and commercial support. On Monday too, we had our second most downloads on a single day (the most was on the 2nd when KT3.0.0 was released), and reached our highest monthly downloads (on the 20th of the month).
Happy voting holiday
01 Mar
So, today was the local government elections here in South Africa, with a public holiday attached - well, if you're not a few man-hours of work before your next major release of software and you're averaging about 7 hours a day without electricity. So, anyone else notice that the electoral commission web site sucks even more than usual? Absolutely not usable using Firefox. Gah, and they haven't even replied to my seven or so emails since October 2003 on this issue on their standard web site...