In recent weeks, I've gotten quite a few emails about web2Project and its direction since the fork from dotProject. I've been relatively quiet about it to date as there wasn't much I could show publicly. Now that is beginning to change based on the efforts of the Mighty Pedro... below are a number of screenshots from the current development of web2Project. Click any of them for a larger view.

Most of this post is written with the assumption that you know a bit about dotProject and might have a criticism or two.

First, let's talk just a bit about performance. One of the biggest complaints in the past has been due to the performance of the system specifically the permissions (based on phpgacl). Due to the way phpgacl is structured and was used previously, every operation on an object resulted in a re-querying of the permissions based on the action and object. That makes quite a bit of sense, but if you simplify the logic in a few places and occasionally cache results, you can make some huge performance gains without negatively impacting the security of the system.