Milestone 1 feature development is ready

George has finished developing all of the Milestone 1 features! Right now we are in the process of verifying the release and last-minute bugfixing, but the release of this milestone, also known as “m2f 2.0a4″ (Alpha 4), is imminent.

Beta testers: You’ll have work to do pretty soon! We submitted a new page into our documentation : v2.0 troubleshooting. This page includes bug reporting, testing environment resetting, etc. If you are a beta-tester (and thus member of the beta testers group in the forum), be sure to read that guide and comment!

Oh, and by the way, for sanity’s sake George has improved the configuration procedure for phpBB installations - no more host-key copying&pasting! You can review the updated install instructions on the m2f installation page.

Other than the occasional bug-squashing, we have encountered some interesting design decisions. There is a lot yet to be implemented, such as message routers, which will provide branching and probably chain-chaining (did that made sense?), among other things, but it is amazing how basic and plain functionality can make our developer minds go berserk! Just go and read some bug reports to see what I’m talking about.

On the planning side, now that we are near releasing the Alpha 4 build, we will start doing some heavy reorganization on the features present on future releases. We’ll try to release more often and thus with less new features per build. Note that even though this is an alpha-quality release, which means that there is a quite long feature list pending development, this is by no means a small or buggy release. Each time we release a m2f build, we will do our best to provide users of bug-free software, and with each additional release we plan to add at least one major feature until we finish the first Release Candidate.

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