SimpleTicket Update Since Open Letter
Thank you for all of your emails of support for the project. We certainly appreciate it! Building software is harder than it looks. Last night we engaged a new rails coder in France to begin refactoring the code and implementing our vision for the UI.
Last night we met via IM and decided to rebuild SimpleTicket from scratch. Once we have built the new base we will begin plugging in each module previously created by Architel’s coders as well as those created by the community. Next we will work to integrated the UI contemplated by the wireframes Alex created (with various modifications).
What is new? Well, as of last night our coders have started work! Finally! We will keep you posted on our progress… (no more red tape)
June 18th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Sounds like a good start!
I would suggest a few plugins engines to use in the rewrite, though Nicolas probably is keenly aware of developments in this space.
ActiveRBAC engine, validates_as_email plugin, userstamp plugin.
I would also suggest taling a look at the ajax_scaffold gem. It creates amazing scaffolds, that have all the ajaxy goodness that you had in the ticket/user rows of SimpleTicket, except better (e.g. sorting is automatic). I think it would give the rewrite a huge headstart.
that’s my $.02
June 19th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Is there a timeline at this point? Obviously that is going to depend on a couple of variables, but is the intial release 4-6 weeks out, or 16-20 weeks out?
Ethan