I haven't had time recently to address my plans for SimpleLog over the next few months, so here's a quick rundown:
- I'll be releasing a maintenance version in about two weeks that fixes some bugs that I (and others) have found since the release of 2.x, as well as incorporating some patches I've been sent
- Version 2.5 development will begin shortly after and I plan to release that version just after RailsConf (more on this later), at the end of May
- After version 2.5, I'll be opening SimpleLog to a few choice contributors (more on this later as well)
In short, SimpleLog development has been on hiatus for the past month or so due to other commitments, but as soon as I have some time I'm going to get back to it. I have plans for more features and more updates to the app that will carry us for at least another six months, and by then we'll have thought of even more to do with it. We're just getting started.
In the mean time, some really cool things have been happening in the SimpleLog world recently:
- You can now try SimpleLog before you use it, thanks to a live demo set up and maintained by Abhay Kumar
- People are beginning to release free themes for public use (wahoo!)
- The forums are coming alive with lots of activity and useful help provided by other users
And several really cool new sites have launched using SimpleLog in the past few months:
- Altitude Sickness, by Scott Upton
- Playing With Shapes, by Harold Emsheimer
- A Certain Kind of Home, by Craig Zheng
- Darice.org, by Darice de Cuba
- From Away, by Jeff Smith
- Three. One. Nine., by Jonathan Barket
Every one of those sites looks completely different, showing you just how diverse the crowd using SimpleLog is. A bunch of truly excellent designs, and I'm proud that SimpleLog is their tool of choice. If you have a site using SimpleLog, add a link to the wiki!