mind can has mountains

Good title, eh? Well, the point of the matter isn’t much more serious than that. You may have come across the XEmacs 21.4 OXYMORON series of software releases, with subtitles such as 21.4.9 “Informed Management” and 21.4.19 “Constant Variable”. I quite like the idea of subtitles for mid-size releases, and thought that eponymous adjectives from literature (and perhaps other areas of writing, if they fit in with the spirit of the thing) would make excellent subtitles to attach to release milestones for Alexandria. Therefore, may I suggest 0.7 “Joycean”, 0.8 “Kafkaesque” and 1.0 “Shakespearean”? Other values can be filled in later, when we actually draw up a RoadMap; there are plenty more where they came from (viz Wikipedia). Either “Alexandrine” or “Aristotelian” would also make a particularly good subtitle for the 1.0 release.

I’m not one to complain (thinks: yes I am!), but I’m not a huge fan of Alexandria’s issue tracker at RubyForge. Not that I blame the developers who wrote it, or the site who provides it to us free of charge. I know that an over-complicated interface can overwhelm a bit of software like that, and someone is always going to be without their favourite feature. In fact, I once wrote a small issue tracker with Java Servlets (I called it Gawain, I may yet revive it in some form, perhaps in another language). It didn’t support half the things that the RubyForge Tracker does, but I liked it because I could always get my hands on exactly the data I was looking for and in exactly the format I wanted it.

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