marc paradise

A while back I launched bbssh.org for the BBSSH project. That also included a dedicated blog — but the blogging software I chose had a lot of issues. (Particularly around not displaying or notifying of comments).

While I wasn’t able to get the posts transferred over, bbssh.org has been updated to start using the tried and true WordPress blog.

You can find it here – look for some exciting (to me) new updates about BBSSH this weekend:

http://bbssh.org/blog/

And of course if you’re a twitter fan, new blog posts and other info are posted to the project’s twitter feed:
http://twitter.com/bbssh

For those of you still following at this location, a couple of new blog posts have gone up at bbssh.org.  For one of them, I’d really appreciate your feedback:

http://bbssh.org/roller/bbssh/entry/information_gathering

Here’s the other, a preview of upcoming features in 1.1.9:

http://bbssh.org/roller/bbssh/entry/big_changes_in_next_release

Just a reminder to update your bookmarks to point to the new blog at http://bbssh.org/roller/bbssh; and to grab the new feed from the same place if you’re interested.

Of course you’re welcome to continue to monitor this site too – I expect to start discussing more general development topics that may not directly relate to BBSSH.

Many major enhancements and bug fixes in this release.  See our new blog home for details:

http://bbssh.org/roller/bbssh/entry/bbssh_1_1_8_alpha

For those who just want to get to the good stuff, you can snag the OTA download here:

http://bbssh.org/ota/

While we’re not set up with the pending help/FAQ yet, the new site is now available at http://bbssh.org Download links, information on issue tracking, contacting me, and sending donations is available at the new site. As you’ll see, there’s still a bit of work ahead until it’s fully operational.  Because of that, I’ll continue posting here as well, until we’re fully online at the new location.  Thanks for your patience

Good news and bad news. The good news is that we’ve finished migrating our issues and bugs over from sourceforge to our new location, JIRA at the new site. If you want to report an issue, you can use the username “anonymous” with no password — I’ll leave that in place until it gets abused. I’m also looking into have feedback sent from within BBSSH automatically open JIRA items if it’s identified as an issue, which would be a bit cleaner all around.

The bad news is twofold. First, JIRA is a great tool but is also very heavyweight. I’m concerned – especially in light of BBSSH’s growing userbase – that the VPS host for bbssh (which will also hold a couple of other sites of mine) might get overwhelmed. In that case we might have to fall back to something like JTrac, which is much lighter weight (though also not as feature rich).

The second is that the conversion took much longer than it should have, which means the help docs didn’t get online as planned this weekend. Look for this to start appearing over the course of this week.