JResearch is going ahead. Today August 27th, I am proud to announce the release of a second alpha of the software with several minor issues detected (some non-reported in the tracker) and corrected during Alpha 1 stage. Unfortunately, there is a known issue in the editors-xtd citation plugin when searching publications in Internet Explorer 7. I promise, Alpha 3 will include its correction.

As I told Neri, I made a terrible mistake in my last blog: I announced Alpha 1 but without a link for downloading it and reporting issues in this site. I elaborated a zipped package which resides in KOKOA website for my university community. Well, you can download JResearch Alpha 2 directly here or doing a checkout from the repository:

svn checkout http://joomlacode.org/svn/gsoc2008/JResearch/tags/alpha2

A note about the zip provided. As JResearch includes some compiled components, I will distribute several versions of the software for different hardware and os platforms. The binaries provided run in Windows and Linux x86 platforms. Binaries for x86_64 platforms are coming soon.

If you want to download the last revision of the repository with the latest added functionalities (obviously not tested), you should checkout in http://joomlacode.org/svn/gsoc2008/JResearch/trunk/

And for reporting issues, here is the page. I will really really appreciate your help in this aspect. I also promise to list in detail the list of bugs fixed during this stage.

Many people in my country has suggested me to change the name of the application, as JResearch might suggest a relation with Java technology. Maybe J!Research or JoomResearch. Again, I will discuss it with Neri.

Finally, we are analyzing several options for the hosting of the project's website. I hope to make a decision this Thursday.

What is pending:

• Project documentation, as the time to upload the code in Google's repository is really close (URGENT).
• Publications frontend (I have started with RSS generation). Goods news related to frontend: Staff public pages are ready to be tested (including how to refere them from a menu item) but they are not included in Alpha 2. If you want to try them, please checkout the trunk.
• Bug in IE 7 :-(
• Set project website.
• My motivation: to have at least one beta version (so no more functionalities accepted for this version) by September 19th.
• Compile Bibutils for x86_64 platforms.
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Thanks and see you soon in Alpha 3.