August 2010 Board Report

We finally released Buildr 1.4.0 in June, reaching the end of our 8-month development cycle integrating many new features. We also released Buildr 1.4.1 in July as a maintenance release to address what were mostly installation + platform-specific issues.

June and July were our most active mailing list months with 405 and 504 emails respectively. August has been quiet so far, seemingly due to (northern hemisphere) summer relaxations.

Thanks to Antoine Toulme, we now have continuous integration builds running on Hudson covering many different platforms (Windows, Ubuntu, Native/MRI Ruby, JRuby, JDK 5+6).

We're seeing sustained adoption and contributions from the community. In fact, we've just received a contribution to add Clojure support, reinforcing our language diversity ("polyglot programming") marketing story.

We are planning another release (1.4.2) towards the end of August that will contain various fixes and minor improvements.