Bugzilla 3.0.1 Release and VCI
Well, it happened several days ago now, but I released four versions of Bugzilla. I'm getting pretty good at the release process, particularly doing it all myself in a single go. I wrote everything myself this time. It didn't take a particularly long time to do (a few hours, maybe), but it did take a while for me to have the time to do it.

I'm really happy with 3.0.1, it's like a "make 3.0 perfect" release. It took a lot longer than I would have liked after 3.0 for us to release it, but it seems that people were happy enough with 3.0 (considering our record download numbers) that it wasn't a huge issue.

We also released 3.1.1, which has a lot of exciting new features and a new skin. We'll see what people think about the new skin. :-) You can see it on the demo installation if you want.

VCI

In other news, I just recently released the first version of a new thing I'm working on, VCI! The idea of VCI is to make a single library that can interact with all the different version-control systems out there. Right now it supports Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, Subversion, and CVS. And I wrote the whole thing in just a few weeks.

A lot of operations are fairly slow on large repositories at the moment, but that can be improved in the future. Right now I have to decide whether I want to improve the performance of the existing drivers, add new features to VCI, or wait for some users and work on stabilization of the current code.

Anyhow, I'm generally pretty excited about VCI, it should be pretty useful. All the comments I've gotten so far have been extremely positive.

-Max