[elephant-devel] Elephant in Production and the Elephant 1.0 Release

[Ian Eslick]

Shaneal,

It's great to hear Elephant is working well for people doing new projects.  My own project, www.lamsight.org, has been live for about a year with no Elephant related problems that I can recall.  There are corner cases that you may hit during development where the code isn't yet rock solid, but the main use cases have been stable for quite a few of us for the last year and a half or so.

:: Appeal below for help on 1.0 ::

Leslie and I are both very motivated to get a proper 1.0 release out the door.  The 1.0 requires tightening up the corner cases people have reported recently.  A proper release is a significant effort.  I think we can handle the few remaining bugs and feature cleanup, but a release will not happen anytime soon without help from the community to augment the test suite and update the manual.  In fact it's better that people less familiar with the code base do both as we don't always catch confusing issues that are not intuitive for us.

There is plenty of opportunity for small efforts from volunteers (1-3 hour chunks) that would greatly accelerate the release cycle.  If you write to me directly, I'd be willing to put together a 'punchlist' of small projects along these lines that would help.  If we get 5 or more people to volunteer to do a few of these, I'll commit to the core work necessary to wrap up the release (and hopefully Leslie will help too!)

Regards,
Ian

On Dec 3, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Shaneal Manek wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just wanted to quickly let everyone know that I'm using elephant in
> production on my start up (http://postabon.com).
> 
> Thanks to everyone here for creating such a great piece of open source
> software. In particular, Ian Eslick and Leslie Polzer were very
> helpful answering my newbie questions and helping me get off the
> ground. But the whole elephant team has my eternal gratitude ;-)
> 
> (If we ever get funding/revenue/coders I plan to start contributing
> back to Elephant. For now, I'm the only programmer (and a student to
> boot) so I must apologize that I don't have the time/resources to do
> so properly).
> 
> Thanks
> -Shaneal
> 
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