DotNetKicks to be Open Sourced
Open Source DotNetKicks
As
the DotNetKicks.com community has grown in size over the past
year, I have received many offers of help to add features
and many requests for the source code. Due to recent top secret
commitments, I haven't had as much time as I would have liked
to
continue the development of DotNetKicks.com. A discussion on
DotNetKicks last week re-ignited the issue of feature stagnation.
We
are in the business of solving problems, and the best solution here is
to open source the project. I had planned to release some code last weekend, but some of the current dependencies include code that I
don't wish to release. I am currently refactoring the dependencies and
I will be able to release some code very soon.
Please shout it from the roof tops, we need all the contributers we can get.
EDIT: DotNetKicks.com SQL Schema Available
EDIT 2: Some movement at last : http://blog.incremental.ie/archive/2007/07/06/open-source-dotnetkicks.aspx
Initial Roadmap
The
initial code release will primarily be for the attention of any
potential project contributers. The current DAL uses a two code
generations tools, nTierGen.NET (no longer active) and LLBLGEN
(commercial). I would like to quickly reimplement the DAL using an open
source tool (probably SubSonic). I also hope to quickly setup a project
infrastructure similar to SubText. That is:
SubVersion Source Control (sourceforge.net or self hosted ???)
Continuous Integration (CC.NET self hosted ???)
Unit Testing (nUnit or mbUnit?)
Wiki
Project website
Basecamp project management (or perhaps activeCollab)
I am planning to host the source on sourceforge and hosting CC.NET on my own server (are there any good
CC.NET hosted services?).
Once
the new DAL has been implemented and the is infrastructure setup, we can
concentrate on adding new features (or removing?), tests, installers
and other such niceties.
Licence
I am not sure what license is best, I need to do a little research. I do want it to be unrestrictive.
EDIT: It will be licensed under the New BSD Licence
Contribute
If you would like to contribute in any way, please post a comment below.
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