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First pq release scheduled (By anthony Last mod: Jun 15 15:43 )

I'm happy to announce our first actual scheduled software delivery: the version of pq published by Strand 1 will be out by May 30. The first release will be an incremental update to the existing Plan 9 version; the big news is that it'll be cross-platform, with the help of Plan 9 from User Space. A few more details (only a few for now, more soon) are up in my Strand 1 blog.

Reading down the page back in history a bit, one might be inclined to ask about that "before the end of the month" comment back in november. Well, it's not a very good excuse, but that wasn't really intended at a release date, more of a "statement of intent". There wasn't really any internal schedule attached (to much of anything, at that point!). Things're a bit more organized now, and there's been more-or-less consistent technical work being done on a handful of projects, so we've got a much better feel for how much work is involved.

So, really: pq by May 30. Promise.

Strand 1 is live (By anthony Last mod: Jun 15 15:43 )

It is with great pleasure (and a good bit of pride (and quite a lot of relief)) that I introduce the all-new Strand 1 web site. Work's been going on here since the summer, but with all the fun getting things running we only just now built ourselves a real website to replace the placeholder pages that've been sitting around since things went on hiatus.

We've been making some really good progress on some of our projects, particularly Minerva (our web server) and some updates to the pq database. Look for a release on each of those before the end of the month.

The web engine is based on some very fine work by Kris Maglione and Uriel Mangado called "werc". The site will continue to evolve, particularly over the next week or so, but it's nice to have something functional for people to browse.