Month of September, 2007

We've been experiencing some bad server-load at projectpier.org for the last few hours likely do to some good press from German sites that think PP is cool. We're working on speeding it up and getting the site working properly again. In the meantime you can just download the zip file of PP from Sourceforge here. It includes some decent documentation and should keep you busy for awhile.

Thanks for coming by, hopefully Apache will be more welcomming the next time you visit.

The friendly folks from Drupal consultancy Lullabot posted a nice video of installing a local server on Mac OS X here.

This is a nice addition to the installation How-To I wrote for the Windows platform. Please think about changing the Inno-DB settings (step 3) and installing PP (step 4).

You will find the XAMPP installation instructions at http://www.projectpier.org/node/224.

ProjectPier version 0.8.0-final has been released.
Download and change log are available here.

Sometimes you will try some new things, modify some themes or translate ProjectPier into your language. This can be very slow or means a lot of FTP’ing to your hosted web space. An easier way to do this is to run ProjectPier on a local server on your computer.

In the How-To section you will find a short tutorial how to set up ProjectPier on a local server with XAMPP.

Thank you for being patient while the website was being moved to a new server Friday evening, we're back up and running!

As you know we use our bug tracker not only for bugs but also to collect feature request. Right now a tracker ain’t a good place to discuss feature pro and cons or the way to implement this.
 
So let’s discuss all feature request related stuff in the Feature Request Discussion forum. Please include the URL to the feature request in the first post, so that we can update the request with the decision (and its URL of the forum post).

Finally it is here.  The release of ProjectPier 0.8 Release Candidate 1.  It can be downloaded here.

But first, a little info about what's going to happen next. Release Candidate 1 is now in circulation. You should download and install this if you want to test it. Please leave your feedback in the forum here and post any serious problems in the tracker. The week of September 17th we will review the comments and issues and move forward with the final 0.8 release as appropriate.  If you are using ProjectPier or it's predecessor in a production environment, you might want to wait a week or so for the final release of version 0.8.

ProjectPier has a whole new skin. A complete list of changes is available here. We've made some changes I think everyone will like, including optimizing the subject lines of notification emails for threaded reading and including the full body of messages and comments in the notification emails.

The website update is done and everything here on Projectpier.org should work as expected. If you find some errors, please file a bug for the website project (http://www.projectpier.org/project/issues/106).

Thanks for your patience
Roland