Today is the first anniversery of LedgerSMB's first public release.
In the past year, we have released three major releases:
1.0.0: Major security enhancements
1.1.0 Moderate security enhancements, new features
1.2.0 Major security enhancements, new features.
In addition, each of these releases has had several revisions which have
corrected various bugs and security issues. All in all, we have had nearly
25 releases in a year. We have gone from 300-500 downloads in our first few
months to 800-1200 most months currently. While this is still only half of
the downloads SQL-Ledger was seeing before the fork (at least on
Sourceforge), it is a noteworthy achievement. If such a pattern continues,
perhaps we can double the downloads again in the next year.
In the next year, we expect to release at least two more major
releases: 1.3.0 and 1.4.0. These two releases will be extremely
noteworthy.
1.3.0 will include a new MVC-like architecture for new code, and the object
model will largely be defined in the database. All contact management areas
of the software will be redesigned and moved to this architecture.
Additionally, we will have voucher processing capabilities, a redesigned
payment and reconciliation interface, and many more enhancements. This will
be the last major release which is expected to have structural security
enhancements. It is also expected that there will be a limited RESTful web
services interface available.
1.4.0 will re-design all the financial and supply chain management logic and
move it to the new framework. This is likely to be a large job but when we
are done, we will be close to 2.0.
2.0 will be a major milestone. At this point, not only will we be free from
the SQL-Ledger code, but we will also have taken the time to review every
area of the program. It will be possible to move away from framesets at
this point, and entirely redesign the UI to make the program more usable.
While I do not know for certain that we will reach this point in the next
year, current progress suggests we may.