Archive for May, 2006

Factory Nova is in Beta

Published on May 25, 2006 in Factory Nova. 8 Comments

Who could have thought? This longest journey does finally come to an end.

Factory Nova Installation Wizard

10 minutes ago I’ve posted a beta version of Factory Nova on a closed forum for our beta testers.

We currently accept everyone interested in taking part in the beta cycle of the product. Factory Nova should be in beta for around 2 months according to our plans. Around the beginning of August 2006 the final 1.0 version should be released.

Here is what you need to do to become a beta tester:

1. Register on our forums if you haven’t already done so.

2. Send me (user “Sergey”) a private message with a request to become a part of the Factory Beta Team.

3. After a short period you will be added to a proper members group on our forums and will get access to a closed Factory Nova Beta forum where you will be able to download the product, post your thoughts, ideas and of course bug reports.

Please note that we are in a GMT +4 timezone and I will have to give you the access to the beta forum manually. This means that after you will send a private message to me, you might need to wait for some hours before you will get the access.

Three days until beta

Published on May 22, 2006 in Factory Nova. 3 Comments

The countdown continues.

All your factory are belong to us!

Published on May 19, 2006 in Factory Nova. 6 Comments

All your factory are belong to us!

PS. Just in case

One week until beta

Published on May 14, 2006 in Factory Nova. 1 Comment

As you can see we do count down, it was two weeks and now it is only one week! Yay!

As a bonus for waiting here is a screenhost of the tags screen in Factory Nova. You can assign multiple tags to a task and use this in different ways. In the Stuffed Tracker project we use tags to specify for which version a task has to be finished. When we then look at the list of all tags we can clearly see the progress for each version.

Tags in Factory Nova

Two weeks until beta

Published on May 1, 2006 in Factory Nova. 3 Comments

You can start the countdown now. We are finishing the translation of the Factory Nova interface and doing a bunch of small but needed things, like creating a web-based installation wizard. But generally the beta is ready.

Traditionally, we have very long holidays in May in this country. So this delays things a bit, but not for long. As I’ve wrote in the title of this post — two weeks and a beta should be announced.

Thanks for bearing with us all this time.