It is now quite a while ago that I have posted news about the state of development. Although Retrospectiva is constantly making progress, I frequently receive questions about the actual activity of the project. Well, I don’t assume that many people are following the actual changeset logs and in order to keep them informed, I will try to feed the blog with the latest news at least every fortnight.

So what is currently happening? Quite a lot, here a short list of the most important features and facts:

• There were 150 commits since the last M2 release
• Retrospectiva’s SCM interface got more flexible and – more importantly – there’s now a first draft for a working GIT adapter
• Retrospectiva is becoming completely RESTful (finally). This will happen in multiple steps, but the core resources (the ones admins are managing) are already migrated
• Retrospectiva is now based on Rails 2.0
• Code and DIFF viewer were modernised
• Global RSS feeds are now available (for all projects, not only one-by-one)
• Search now supports wildcards and full text patterns
• There was also progress on I18n (more/better translations, thanks to all contributors)
• There were major test improvements (thanks to kou)
• Fully tested compatibility with MySQL, PostgresQL & SQLite3 DB backends
• etc, etc, etc

So many great things are now part of the trunk, sounds like a chance to release another preview milestone (coming up). Opening the current code to a wider audience will be a great opportunity for stabilisation and for gathering additional feedback to drive the development.