Home » blogs » patdunlavey's blog

Getting ready for Advokit 2.0

Submitted by patdunlavey on Thu, 11/22/2007 - 08:35.

I think I have - finally - completed the list of enhancements that I wanted to include in Advokit 2.0. I hope to officially tag Advokit 2.0 beta 1 next week. From here on out, there will be no significant changes - just bug fixes and easy usability improvements. I will now be turning my focus to compiling documentation and fixing bugs.

The documentation plan is as follows:

  • Update the existing help screens and add many new ones.
  • Create a comprehensive "Advokit 2.0 Guide" for campaign leaders (I've started this at http://advokit.net/node/162 ).
  • Create several printable use-case-specific guides for activists and leaders.
  • Edit existing documentation on advokit.net to bring up to date with Advokit 2.0

If you would be interested in helping test or write documentation, please let me know!!!!

Watch here for further announcements...

» patdunlavey's blog | login or register to post comments

congrats, excellent

Submitted by kane on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 02:31.

congrats, excellent software, I hope Advokit can have web chat messenger like trillian, one one web pages, allows with many different chat mediums such as MSN, AOL, ICQ and more. good luck.

» login or register to post comments

What is happening

Submitted by shel 2 on Sun, 01/06/2008 - 15:47.

Pat any news on the 2.0 beta 1 release.

» login or register to post comments

Waiting on documentation, mostly

Submitted by patdunlavey on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 08:56.

The code is mostly ready to be labeled as 2.0 first beta - has been for a while. I have no additional features to add and not a large number of known bugs to deal with. Anyone who wants to run a campaign with Advokit should be using the current code. However one of my requirements for tagging the first 2.0 beta was having documentation also in at least an "alpha" form. Currently, I've written maybe a third of a first draft, which can be found here. This will be bundled in the help pages in the application (what you get when you click the help button at the top right of some screens). I'm really not sure about an ETA. These pages actually take quite a bit of work to write and I'm not focused on this right now. Optimistically, the rest of these pages will be ready in a couple months. Realistically, I'm really not sure.

» login or register to post comments

Any news on the 2.0 release?

Submitted by bob on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 21:16.

Any news on the 2.0 release? I looked at the mailing lists, but they seem to have petered out 8 months ago.

» login or register to post comments

No news

Submitted by patdunlavey on Wed, 09/03/2008 - 08:51.

At some point I hope to pick up where I left off on the documentation, maybe work on a few bugs, and then report out a nominal version 2.0. However I don't personally envision working on Advokit beyond that. Both politics and technology have moved a fair distance from where they were in 2003 when Advokit was started.

Advokit development since 2004 has been almost entirely a solo effort, with no pay and little community feedback and support. However, if anyone wants to try their hand at designing and coding improvements to Advokit, I will lend all the support I can!

If you're waiting for the official version 2.0 release to try out Advokit, don't! You should go ahead and download the current development version and start using it. No significant changes are planned between now and the 2.0 release. When and if 2.0 is officially released, you will be able to simply update your existing installation using the installer.

» login or register to post comments

V2.0

Submitted by lastnymleft on Thu, 11/22/2007 - 11:05.

Looking forward to it, Pat! Keep up the good work! (Please :-) )

» login or register to post comments