Galette

10 years, 10 years, Galette is ten years old!

Dear galette users,

In facts, no, Galette is not 10 years old, I have exagerated a bit, but truth be told, it is ten years today that I have taken the lead on the project, that I sort of adopted Galette (and vice-versa).

10 years I try to make the software more powerfull, modern with recent technologies, but also prettier and more user friendly. I o attach importance to free software, and Galette is my contribution.

10 years of Galette evolution, along with my personal life. Since then, I've been married, had two daughters, moved around France (several times...), changed my job (several times...), ...

10 years I've invested a lot of my time, patience and energy in this beautiful project, despite other obligations, but today it seems worthwhile because Galette is now used by many non profit organizations (sports, free software, collections, towns...) and this is the best acknowledgement I can hope for.

10 years adding features (I won't list them, there are too many :)); some very usefull, like plugins. Some failures that we suffered through, some that ended up being (lot of) time lost, others that ended up disouraging me. It's fair game.

10 years of code. It's no small achievement! Some statistics (about the project itself only, not the plugins):

  • 57 releases;
  • 2 major rewrites (and a third to come);
  • 2833 commits (since april 13 2007);
  • 928 239 lines added; 1 059 951 lines removed;
  • 761 days of activity.

Despite everything, Galette would not be what it is today without you, who supported me, report bugs, submit plugins, propose - or even pay for - features usefull for all or a few.

Managing an open source project like Galette is really an adventure... Long, often complex, but always interesting and rewarding :-)

Also, on the occasion of this special birthday, I'd like to thanks all of you who joined me in this adventure, and especially Roland, the most loyal among the loyal... He was present before me :)

Finally... I'd like to thanks Loïs who gaves me "the baby out with the bath water" 10 years ago :D

<?php
$date = new \DateTime();
$date->modify('-10 years');
echo $date->format('l jS \of F Y'); //Friday 18th of May 2007

See you very soon for other adventures... 100 per cent made in France pure butter! :-D

Galette 0.8.3

The new Galette release, 0.8.3, is now available to download!

Some news, some bug fixes at program of this new version. You can check the complete changelog to know more.

It will be the last release of the 0.8 serie, which means I will not add new features before 0.9 will be published (which is alredy at work for a while, but still requires some work).

Soon, develop branches of Galette and its plugins will switch to 0.9, and will probably be broken; as well as nigthly release.

Documentation will probably follow, but I have to find some motivation :D

Next... Later !

Waiting for that, you can test the latest release, use mailing lists and also donate (there is a button just at the right! :p).

Galette 0.8.2.2: Le Pic sponsored

I have been very busy these months, but Galette has progressed anyways :-)

0.8.2 release, sponsored by Hélène of Le Pic were born at the end of may. This release ends SQLite support, but comes with many new features:

  • Attach members (for families, per exmaple); it is so possible to use parents coordinates for the child member;
  • Add member number;
  • Customize member form;
  • Add maintainance mode;
  • ...

Several bugs have also been fixed.

The complete changelog is as usual aailable from the documentation. Usermanual wll help you with new features.

A bugfix release, and another one tonight has also been released, and ships only bug fixes.

Stay tuned!

End of MySQL support

EDIT: Obviously, nobody can believe such thing, it was an April Fool.

For a quite long time, I'm wondering if I must keep SQLite support into Galette. It takes very much time, and it is very complex; and for many reasons, I do not have much free time actually, and I have to find a solution.

All things considered; it appears that the worst database engine support is not SQLite, but MySQL.
I've so decided to stop MySQL support in Galette.

In concrete terms, that means all new Galette releases will no longer have MySQL support, but also all bugs and questions related to MySQL will no be processed. Users who use this engine should consider to migrate as soon as possible.

Galette 0.8.1: Danielle sponsored

Here is a new Galette release, sponsored by Danielle C. :-)

This release brings a few new features, and fixes some bugs found in the previous release. Please see the full changelog to know the changes.
Of course, upgrading to this latest release is highly recommended...

Very big thanks to Danielle for her sponsoring!

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