background
- Originally streber started as a prototype of a major upgrade of netoffice. I stumbled over this project and enthusiatically joined the comunity a year ago. It seemed a good tool for organizing my own projects and work. Over the time I discovered, that the long project-history lead into a confusing, hard to extend code-basis. And although the core-interface was really intuitive some points (like rights-management, cascaded tasks and client-site) were really confusing. So I worked on an interface-design concept for a major upgrade including mock-ups, a user-survey and usability-tests. During the implementation of a prototype I made a lot of really drastic changes in the netoffice concept. Together with the missing support from the project-founders this gave me enough reason to split and start a new project which I called streber.
- "Streber" is German for a too enthusiastic and motivated person. Nobody would like to go for a date with a streber, but letting him do your home-work is quiet o.k. ;-)
current state
- For now - August 2005 - the code size has reached some hundred kilobytes of well-documented, object oriented and tested php5 code. I am already using streber to organize all of my project activity and client relation ship. The current version misses some important features of a first beta-release (of which the most important is an installation and upgrade mechanism). I hope to implement those til end of August. Additionally we are doing a field-test with a small Berlin company.
future
- If things go really well I plan a first beta-release for end of August 2005. This release will not provide as many features as netoffice, but it will be a more stable and flexible foundation for a quick growth.
- Depending on the feedback about the beta-version and the support I get from other developers I will continue the project with this roadmap.