ColdSpring 2.0 - Now On SourceForge

Up until recently, the goings-on of what has been happening in ColdSpring 2.0 has been fairly limited to my twitter account.

The first thing to note, is that the code name for this project is Narwhal. Why Narwhal? Basically because they are awesome. They roam the ocean with a huge spike attached to their head, which can be used to impale, seals, penguins, and apparently also koalas. See - awesome. (Who really has reasons for code names?)

The next most interesting thing to note, is that much of ColdSpring's infrastructure is now hosted on Sourceforge, as it provides a large feature set for us to leverage. Here you can find the project page, which gives you access to the Git repository that contains the code for ColdSpring 2.0.  Sourceforge also provides hosting for the Trac install that is being used to host our documentation and tickets and milestones.  We are currently investigating options for integration with the current ColdSpring website.

I'm not going to go into new features in Narwhal, of which there are more than a few (I have to have some incentive for people to come to my my WebDu Talk!), but documentation has started on the Wiki, and will be expanding quickly in the future (If anyone wants to help with that, the more the merrier!).

You may also note that much of the documentation is also being generated automatically, in an attempt to alleviate some of the burden of authoring.  Now that there are XMLschemas being used, HTML documentation is being generated from them, and ColdDoc is also being used to generate API documentation for the underlying architecture.

It's still very early days for ColdSpring 2.0, but a Alpha1 does loom on the horizon. That being said, the Git repository is public, so feel free to pull it down, have a look at what is happening in the Unit Tests, what documentation is available, and feel free to discuss it on the mailing lists.  Just beware - this is still pre-Alpha, so the sand may shift under your feet as new code gets produced, bugs get quashed and new features get developed.  You have been warned!

More details coming soon!