I've resumed development of AWM. At this time, I'm of the "it'll be done when it's done" mindset, but I may be looking for some help sometime down the road. If you interested, give me a holler. My contact info can be found on the Contributors page.

Once again, my real life has been taking precedence over updating a website and developing a web application. I have been working on AWM in my spare time, but as I've done so, it has become more and more obvious that I'm not going to be able to finish this alone. I have yet to decide if I want to open up development team positions to anyone who wants it, or if I would rather ask people I'm acquainted with.

So, for now, the project is officially on hold. When I decide how I want to recruit people for the development team, I'll make another post and let you know.

I stopped using this website to develop AWM a few weeks ago. I copied the /awm/ directory to my laptop's hard drive and installed a web server. This allows me to work on the project without worrying about inadvertently breaking the site. As I've been working, I've been making more and more changes to the core, and I've come to realize that the direction I'm going in won't make AWM as open a development platform as I'd like it to be. I've decided to throw out the core and rewrite it from scratch. This is not, however, as monstrous a task as you might think. The new core will support GZip compression and component execution. The rest of the functionality that is present in the current core will still be available, but I will be transplanting those features into individual components. The end result will be a system that is completely modular, which will make releasing updates a heck of a lot easier.

Unfortunately, this decision will affect my estimated time frame for the first public release. We're now looking at late December to early January. Also, the version numbering scheme I described in my previous post will no longer be applied to the core, but to each individual component. The administration panel will have the ability to check each component's version ID against the latest version available from this site. There will be a few changes, though. There will be only six digits; I've decided to scrap the development stage and release number. The first public release of each component will have a version ID of 000100. The first two digits will still indicate the major version number (v0.1.0), the third and fourth will indicate the minor version number (v0.1.0), and the last two will indicate the bugfix version number (v0.1.0).

I apologize for the lack of updates. Now that class is back in full swing, I don't have as much free time as I did over the summer. I still think the public beta will be ready by November, though. To that point, I've been making progress on the administration panel component, as well as improvements to the AWM core. I've now successfully integrated an update checker into the main page of the admin panel. In order to do this, I've implemented a version ID system variable which consists of eight digits. The first public release of AWM (v0.9.0 Beta 1) will have a version ID of 00900101. The first two digits indicate the first major version number (v0.9.0 Beta). The third indicates the second major version number (v0.9.0 Beta 1). The fourth and fifth indicate the minor version number (v0.9.0 Beta 1). The sixth indicates the development stage (v0.9.0 Beta 1; 0=Alpha, 1=Beta, 2=Final). The last two digits indicate the release number (v0.9.0 Beta 1). This numbering scheme should accommodate all future versions of AWM.

I decided I needed a license for the website content, and I went with the CC-BY-ND 3.0. Full details can be found on the license page. You'll also notice that there is a license up there for AWM itself. That one may change; I'm still debating whether or not to use the GNU GPL instead.

And in case you're wondering how AWM is coming, I've been making progress on the admin panel, as well as improvements to the template system.

The template I was working on didn't turn out like I hoped it would, so I trashed it and started over. This one looks much better. Just wanted to post and make a note of the change.