The cherry on this week's icing is to have released:

qooxdoo 0.8-beta1

As has been planned a first beta release of qooxdoo 0.8 was made available today. Just three (but busy) weeks after alpha2 now most of the widgets and most of the applications have been ported to 0.8. See the release notes of qooxdoo 0.8-beta1 for more details.

Table bug hunting day

Wednesday we declared as official "table bug hunting day". After the port of the 0.7 table to the 0.8 widget system was feature-complete, we wanted to make sure that everything still worked as before. Since the table has a really large code base with at least ten different contributors we asked the community to help us find the remaining bugs. The response we got was really amazing. We got more reports than we could fix in just one day, including some really obscure issues we would have probably missed otherwise. Most of the reported issues are fixed in today's 0.8-beta1 release. The few still open issues are filed in bugzilla and will be fixed before 0.8 final. Big "thanks!" to everyone who has reported table bugs. The virtual "bug hunter of the day" award goes to Dietrich Streifert, who filed not less than 5 bugs with clear descriptions and nice screenshots.

Check out the various demos of the new 0.8 table in the demo browser.

Subscribe

As a reminder on the various options to stay up-to-date with the project, in addition to the regular mailing list: You can subscribe to feeds either directly by your feed reader (which is what most people do nowadays), or alternatively by email (if you prefer a more traditional workflow).

Social Networks

Social networks certainly are a matter of taste. If you are into virtual networking and connecting yourself to people that share your interests, you can now also subscribe to "qooxdoo" groups that are available (at least) at the following services: LinkedIn, facebook, Xing, ShortView

Subversion

SourceForge.net is the world's largest Open Source software development web site. As you all know, qooxdoo's code repositories are hosted there as well. They recently started a large-scale data center migration that affects basically all their services. Hope is all of them benefit significantly from the new hardware/infrastructure as well as software upgrades. After migration of SVN, they noticed a couple of severe performance issues (despite that SourceForge's SVN access could never really be called "fast"). Anyway, they focused in resolving the issues, which included a few (planned and announced) outages. Of course, that did slow down our development activities a bit. Sorry for any qooxdoo SVN troubles you might have encountered yourself recently.

Generator

The generator saw mainly internal consolidation this week. Relative path handling has been improved, and the documentation has been aligned to be consistent with it. "frontend/framework/tool/data/config/example.json" is an extended configuration file that can serve as a sample for config file writers and if you need to dig deeper than what the Skeleton config file offers.

Demobrowser

Some effort has gone into the Demobrowser. We wanted it to offer each demo application styled in both the "Classic" and the "Modern" theme, and let the user switch between them. To that end all demos are generated in theme-dependent variants, and the demobrowser GUI has an additional drop-down to support the switching. Check it out.

Outlook

Next week we will consolidate bugs and todos, preparing for the development of a first release candidate of 0.8. Still a lot of work ahead. The better your support (bug reporting, fixing, cheering), the better progress and result. Thanks in advance, we really appreciate it!