As I mentioned before, I joined the 30 day product challenge with the TextUML Toolkit. Of the benefits of being part of the challenge, the ones that most attract me are the sense of being part of something greater, and the motivational power of peer pressure (even if imaginary) and fear of public failure. With that in mind, these are my commitments for the challenge:
Phase 1 – June 1st to June 15th:
Focus on finishing development and examples.
- publish the milestone 5 of the TextUML Toolkit (M5) (done)
- making UML graphical visualization an optional component (done)
- publish an example application
- model – probably a subset of the Java Pet Store app
- code generation templates – probably using Acceleo
- should target Eclipse 3.4 (done – M5 can be installed on Eclipse 3.4 or 3.3, but download will continue to bundle 3.3 due to lack of tool support for product creation in the new software update mechanism available in Eclipse 3.4)
- bug fixing (continuously)
- improve documentation (continuously)
- publish Release Candidate 1 on June 15th
- development freeze
Phase 2 – June 16th to June 30th:
Focus on polishing and getting it out of the door.
- major/critical bugs
- minor bugs/polish items
- improve documentation (continuously)
- artwork
- icons for TextUML source files, new project wizard (outsource)
- website (images, skins)*
- legal stuff
- make sure we comply with all licenses for any bundled open source software
- legal notices using Eclipse branding
- beef up license (no redistribution, no reverse engineering)
- PR (go easy, this is 1.0) – EPIC, announcement-friendly developer forums
- one active beta-tester
- one early adopter*
- screencasts (this is a biggie)
- creating a UML model using the TextUML Toolkit
- generating code using Acceleo
- RC3 on June 29th
- declare 1.0 on Monday June 30th
* marks nice-to-have items
There you go. You, my readers (yes, both of you), can now hold me accountable if I fail to accomplish any of the work items I committed to do above.
To my fellow 30-dayers: good luck to us all. It will be fun!
