The Growstuff Project

Just wanted to let everyone know some good news for iteration 1. You will recall that our stories for this iteration were:

4: Dev website
6: Signup/login
13: Attractively styled
14: Footer links
15: Description on dev website
16: Self-hosted wiki

It's now Wednesday, about 10 days after coding work started, and about 4 days til it ends on the weekend. At this point, we have the following tasks completed and merged into our dev branch:

6: Signup/login
13: Attractively styled
14: Footer links
15: Description on dev website

Thanks to cesy, randomling, and pozorvlak for their work on these.

juliet and I have been working on the dev site deployment story (#4). It has progressed a lot -- a BIG lot -- but we're not quite there yet. However, I'm starting to feel reasonably good about us maybe getting there soon. Fingers crossed.

That leaves the self-hosted wiki, which was a bit of a stretch goal, but we might get lucky there.

In addition to this, we've had some excellent work on infrastructure:

- randomling's helped us get a hosted hack server set up (for those who can't develop rails apps on their own machines, or want an easier way to get started -- more on this next iteration)
- pozorvlak and cesy have got us using use HAML (a preprocessor that makes writing views easier/less verbose)
- pozorvlak has set up continuous integration using spork (which I have yet to test and respond to the pull request, but it's looking good from what I can see.

So, this is all looking like excellent progress so far! I think we're going to get most if not all of our stories done for this iteration, as well as lots of good background work, so get ready to give yourselves a pat on the back for that come the end of the iteration.

Is there anyone who'd like to work on iteration 1, who I haven't yet spoken to about what you might like to work on? Speak now, and tell me what sort of things you're interested in and what timezone you're in, and we'll see if we can match you with a story and someone to pair with.

(Things you might like to work on: rails development, graphic design, wiki/documentation stuff, sysadmin/devops, database schema/structure, probably other things I've forgotten.)