A few weeks ago at the PHPBenelux Conference, I gave my presentation on the rebirth of dotProject as web2project where I covered one way of rebooting a project. But after catching Elizabeth Naramore's talk on "Technical Debt" again, it got me thinking..

Within web2project, we made the deliberate decision to work on our technical debt. Even after 2 major, 5 minor, and one patch level release, we still occasionally find issues ranging from annoyances to things that will require major refactorings*. Either way, since we're steadily documenting them, we're constantly getting a better picture of the state of the system and its strengths and weaknesses.

Alternatively, we could have trashed the code and started from scratch..

The classic example is Netscape 5.

As of Sunday, January 9th, the first version of the Risk Management Module is available for Web2project. While I'd love to be able to describe all the changes, the conversion process covered so many aspects, it's hard to list them all. The most important ones are:

As of 19 December 2010, web2project v2.2 is officially live! You can download it from SourceForge now.

While in many releases we might focus on cleanup or functionality or developer aspects or similar, this one is a mishmash of a bunch of useful updates on numerous fronts. This isn't all of the updates but a bunch of the important ones:

For the Project Managers:

As of 22 September 2010, web2project v2.1 is officially released! You can download it from SourceForge now.

For Project Managers, there are not a huge number of tangible improvements. This was mostly a cleanup release:

After a major cleanup of the structure and logic due to a handful of issues, v4.1 of the Project Importer is now available!

You can download the latest version here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/web2project-mod/files/Project-Importer/

The purpose of the Project Importer is to allow users to import their project plans from other systems. Currently Microsoft Project and WBS Gantt Chart Pro are supported.
The significant changes in this release include:

As of 29 June 2010, web2project v2.0 is officially released! You can download it from SourceForge now.

Although this release had lots of bug fixes, the primary focus was on a few specific new features and major pieces of functionality. You can read the full v2.0 Release Notes, but in my opinion, the six most important items are: