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EventBox - Towards 1.0
I would like to take a few minutes to talk about our future plans and what that means for our users.
So Far
Just a quick recap of what has happened so far. We launched our public beta on the 7th November 2008 and we developed EventBox for a few months before that in stealth mode. I have to say, this has been a life changing experience, for me personally.
Towards 1.0
We’ve been nearing the final release of 1.0 and we plan to get out of beta sometime around this summer (you know how software schedules are, right?). Here’s what 1.0 is all about - getting the basics in place. It’s not about having every bell and whistle. There will be small annoyances and minor bugs but the main aim is to not have any major issues. Yes, we are working on multiple accounts.
1.x
Maybe some of you are wondering what happens after we release 1.0? Well, lots. We will take a deeper look at the problems we’re trying to solve, take a step back and then provide tools to solve them. To give a simple example, we would like to synchronize the data about what you’ve read / seen across multiple devices (whether that would be multiple Macs / iPhones / etc).
Multiple Accounts
I’ve been actively working on getting multiple accounts in EventBox over the last couple of days. It involves quite a bit of work because I’m re-engineering the core of EventBox from the ground up. I’m planning to release a few minor updates in the meantime but I’ll be concentrating on getting multiple accounts in place. Since it’s essentially a rewrite of the whole internal bit of EventBox, we will see the following additional benefits (on top of multiple accounts):
- Reduced memory usage with large data sets
- De facto removal of container limits
- Much much faster operation
- Ability to have hundreds of smart folders without any performance penalties
- Different sorting options
