The Project Importer is available for web2project!

This release can be downloaded here: Project Importer v3.0

• The most significant change in this release is that it has been updated to support web2project. In the process, backwards compatibility with dotProject was lost.
• This is a known situation and is not considered an issue or bug, it is a design decision and will not be reversed or reconsidered.  Please do not ask.
• Simplified the class structure and encapsulated more of the type-specific details away from the user and the BaseImporter class.
• Converted some of the raw SQL statements to use the DBQuery class.

This release can be downloaded here: Project Importer v3.0

I know I've said it before, but this time I'm serious... the End is Near:

web2project is nearing v1.0

We - mostly Pedro - have been pounding on bugs, features, and all kinds of shiny and nifty new bits for the last 9 months.  The most important parts are the UI, performance, and security/permissions.

First, I'm not going to go into the security fixes again, but the permissions improvements are huge.  Not only can you quickly review an individual's permissions by going to the User Permissions Information screen but the system now caches the permissions calculations.  This reduces the overall number of queries on any page by approximately 90%.  Yes, you read that correctly... 90%.

In the past week, a few people have called me to task about referencing the dotProject vulnerability in the Project Importer Release and Risk Management Module update without giving details or even proof.  Since the release of the fix (dotProject 2.1.2), I finally feel that it is appropriate to discuss this in detail.

First of all, congrats to the dotProject team on the latest release.  Rolling a release is always a painful thing and coordinating the pieces it takes for a successful Open Source project - and more importantly - and solid community is difficult by all measures.

It's been over three years since the last release of the RIsk Management Module, but due to popular demand, it is back.

This announces v3.0 of the Risk Management Module: available here.

Many people don't understand what Risk Management is, but oddly enough, Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield summed it up nicely:

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."

This one has been an incredibly long time in coming, but it's finally happened: The latest Project Importer release!

This release can be downloaded here: Project Importer v2.2

The big updates for this one are simple:

After much waiting and a few false starts, it exists!

The Project Exporter is now available to all sponsors.

All sponsors should be contacted within the next 24 hours with a private download link. In addition, a demo will be viewable online within approximately 48 hours.

The current release should be considered an Alpha and is open to suggestions, feedback, guidance and - more than anything - a bit of testing. Although we test extensively and have numerous dotProject projects for testing, we don't have every possible one and there may be oddities with your specific projects.

The more - and more complete - information you give, the faster and more efficiently we can diagnose and resolve any issue. Therefore, please provide feedback/bug reports to support [at] caseysoftware.com with the following information:

Since my departure from the dotProject team last November, discussion of dotProject in this space has been minimal. There are a number of reasons for that, but the most important is that because CaseySoftware customers are steadily converting over to web2project. They've been happy with the improved performance and UI enhancements and are excited about the development roadmap. Of course, there are always exceptions...

My biggest single dotProject customer is huge and they're using dotProject for all their core operations. Of course, in the past couple months, they've hit a major problem.... performance.

They have approximately 400+ projects with 25% of those active at any given time. In addition, they have anywhere from 150-600 tasks on any given project. No, I'm not kidding. This gives gives them literally tens of thousands of tasks... which is necessary for their accounting and reporting to various government departments and agencies. It is quite literally the core of their operations.