CDA v11.11.23 available

Huge milestone. As promised, CDA v11.11.23 was released. You can download it from http://cda.webdetails.org/. The first of many, features an easy to use installer that will work on any operating system.

Works with any version of pentaho, form 3.6 to 4.1.

On a related note, the ctools-installer script was also updated. Version 1.9 now adds the support for a flag (-b) that allows selecting the branch you want to install, either dev or stable. Currently, choosing stable will only affect CDA, where this latest version will be installed, but as new versions of the other plugins are released you can switch from bleeding edge to a more stable / tested version.


Have fun, this is the first of the rapid release cycle of the CTools!

CTools - Rapid release cycle

The Ctools are great. There's no doubt about it. But our release handling has been... hum... "lacking", to be very polite about it.


It's absolutely unacceptable to have the latest released version of CDE to be 1.0RC3 for over 6 months now, CDA on 1.0 and having everyone relying on CI builds and tools like the ctools-installer running trunk. We know that, and I apologize.


Webdetails is a services company, so all the work we do into productizing ctools mostly comes out of our own sweat and blood, thus ending in the situation where we are now. But we're way past the time where this is manageable and all the tools grew into such proportion, both in quality and user base, that we need to drastically change this.


We're now moving into a rapid release cycle. Our goal is to start with releases every 3 weeks  and adjust that with time if necessary.


And we'll start one step at a time. Scheduled to this Wednesday is a stable release of CDA. As the release cycle moves on we'll add the other plugins.


We'll also change the way we handle version numbering. Since they're mostly useless anyway (and our marketing team said they didn't  particularly care about them ;)  ) we'll now move to a different style. Let's just say the next version will be CDA v11.11.23 . And  I'll let you guess the pattern ;)


Cheers

-pedro

CTools moved to GitHub

We're cleaning out the place. All the Ctools can now be found at github, webdetails organization.


Some moved from googlecode (CDF, CDA) while most of them moved from different owners, but if you got an error pulling from the source, don't worry, we didn't run away, just moved to a new home

CTools Training: Brasil

There's no typo in the title. Brazil, in Portuguese, is spelled 'Brasil'. And December's training session will be in Brasília, Brasil, 13-15 de Dezembro (which means 13-15 December, but if you didn't figure that yet it won't probably matter, as this one will be in Portuguese).

You can check the training headlines here


This will be organized by our friends at it4biz, and for more informations check Caio Souza's blog entry


Até breve