qCal v0.0.1 Released

qCal is an object-oriented iCalendar library for PHP5. It is a project I started over two years ago. It has seen short, sporadic (but substantial) bursts of development throughout its history, but thanks to a developer who took an interest in it and has decided to provide some funding, it is finally seeing its first release.

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The Release Process

qCal’s release process will, from here on out, consist of a two-week development cycle. I will release a new version every other Thursday as long as it stays in active development. Each release, with the exception of this first one, will consist of a list of changes that have been made since the last release (a changelist), goals for the next release, and updated documentation.

The reason this release is an exception is because of its size. There is already around 85% of the iCalendar spec (RFC 2445) implemented in this release. Writing documentation for this much code would have put off the release for quite some time. That’s why I intend to work on mostly documentation for the next release. There will be very few new features added in v0.0.2, just documentation. After that, the release process will go more or less the way I described above.

If you’re at all interested in the library, please download it and let me know what you think. The next release will be on Thursday, January 14th.