If listening to a couple of developer geeks chatting about Symphony for 20 solid minutes is your thing, then this podcast is for you.
Hello and welcome to the developer’s chat edition of the Chaotic Pattern podcast. This is your host, Allen Chang and with me is Symphony system engineer, Alistair Kearney.
The whole transcript below is only half of one-third of a quarter segment in the podcast, listen to the podcast for the whole full thing!
Introduction
- Allen C.
- So, just to get ourselves started, why don’t you tell the listeners what the “developer’s chat edition” entail?
- Alistair K.
- Well this is something we hope to do more often. We’d talk about various things that’s happening on Overture, any important highlights of Symphony’s development and other progress we’re making. Something just to give a more interesting overview of Symphony in general.
- Allen C.
- Yeah, we’re gonna do it, biweekly aren’t we?
- Alistair K.
- Not biweekly, probably more likely to be fortnightly. Because I don’t think there’s enough happens… [snickers]
- Allen C.
- [Embarrassed] Well, “fortnightly” was what I meant… anyway, so we’re going to do a couple of segments, “News and Announcements” segment, which we talk about all the new things that’s happening on Overture and Symphony. We’ll have a segment, “Debates, Opinions and Explanations” regarding some of the threads that’s been happening and any highlights throughout the weeks.
On Symphony Beta
- Allen C.
- The next big announcement is obviously to do with Symphony version 1.8. I’ll let Alistair talk a little bit about what’s happening with that.
- Alistair K.
- We’re still developing, finishing off some of the new features and improvements - couple of which are still under wraps. So we won’t discuss them today. However, one thing we will announce is the Symphony beta period, which we’re hoping to be for a couple of weeks long. It will give everyone a chance try it out and potentially port their existing sites over on to a test environment to give us a bit of feedback. It’s quite important because version 1.8 is such a large change and there will be a lot of structural changes taking place that should be explored before jumping on to a full production environment.
Discussion
Confused by the terms biweekly and fortnightly too? According to wikipedia, I was correct!
Alistair 20 July 07