Have you heard about Habari? If you're a regular reader here, then of course you have. What you might not know is that Habari development is not dead.
It's weird how a summer can bring a natural stall to the activities usually relegated to the development spawned by countless hours of hibernating indoors. To outside appearances, it might not look like a lot is going on with Habari. Even though commits continue to trickle in, but it's not the full-blown force that it was six months ago. I'll assure you now that the project is still quite alive, and that we've even got release news to back that up.
Today we released version 0.2 for developers. This is another release that is meant to be a review for people that want to be ready to develop for Habari when the 1.0 version is released, or want to start shaping the software early on. You can run it on a live site if you're daring (I do here), but I wouldn't go as far as to recommend it. So, what all have we been doing in Habari, then? I'll tell you....
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There is so much stuff going on, I'm not even sure where to begin.
If you missed it, yesterday's April Fools Day activities went off quite well. Thanks a bunch to skippy, moeffju, and chrisjdavis for helping out and playing along.
Also, I'd like to apologize to all the WordPress users who found the ForkPress link on their Dashboards yesterday. I was really tired when I entered the post, and I hadn't intended to tag it "WordPress" when I was scanning through the text. I hope it was entertaining just the same....
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It's been since October with these Habari people, and I'm totally through. It's not worth it any more.
Day after ceaseless day, the agony of having decisions by committee... It's finally gotten the best of me. I thought I could handle it, but it's just not working out.
The latest straw to break this camel's back is the rush to release the Developer Review. I'm not sure what the all-fired hurry is to release software that is obviously not ready for prime time. Nevermind that we could have released at the end of January had we not wasted all of our time bickering over logos, default themes, HTML vs XHTML, and other irrelevant claptrap. 100+ messages about whether Habari should use HTML or XHTML. I mean, is that really necessary?...
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