Since it's been six weeks since my last update on the progress of SMF 2.0 I thought I'd drop a
very quick update on progress. The bad news (For SMF) is that in the last six weeks I've been on holiday for three weeks so I achieved practically nothing during this time period.
However, SMF is not developed by a team of one and I know Thantos has made some progress recently on some authentication stuff which is pretty neat. That aside the other good news is that my "working away from home" has reduced increasing the amount of time I have to spend on 2.0 and hence the last though weeks I have been working "hammer and tong" to close off a load of the remaining bugs on our Mantis bug tracker.
In the last two weeks we've gone from having over 220 bug reports down to less than 170 - and that doesn't take account of the new ones added so we've probably closed off close to 70 bugs - good progress I hope you'll agree. We're continuing to work through and fix all significant bugs in 2.0 so we can get a beta out to our Charter Members as soon as possible. Whilst hopefully no-one expects the first beta to be bug free we want it to be as good as possible - if only so we don't get hundreds of bugs reported by hundreds of testers!
On a personal note I have to say that the last few months have been quite slow for SMF 2.0 - but I'm really hoping to change that over the next 2-3 months. Fortunately the rest of the team have been working hard - for example Blocs recently made some fantastic changes to the mod and theme site and will hopefully soon resume his work on cleaning up the SMF templates (Semantic templates won't be ready for Beta 1 I'm afraid but they are being worked on). It's fantastic to work on a project with so many dedicated people. On an entirely random note I'm always impressed that the little indicator the team has showing how many Charter Member tickets in our helpdesk are awaiting a response is pretty much always at zero - a testiment to how hard our support guys work here no doubt (Currently 0/10!).
Not the most exciting post ever but I'm not a PR person

The headline people are no doubt interested in though is that I am still shooting to get the Charter beta out this month - let's see what real life does to try scupper that
