[Scottish] June's Meeting

[Ben Thorp]

Extra early notification this month!

This months meeting will be on Thursday 29th June. For those interesting,
there are no World Cup matches being played on that day, so you're safe.
The "formal" meeting will be at 7.30pm at Livingstone Tower, moving to the
Counting House at 9pm. There will most likely be a small informal gathering
pre-meeting from about 6pm in the CH. More details on the website
(http://www.scotlug.org.uk)

This month Kevin Campbell (kevc on IRC) will be talking about 'Developing
MailManager'. His blurb:

"MailManager is an email response management product written in python. It
is built on top of Zope and runs against an SQL database. The source code
is freely available under the GPL. MailManager is sold to customers either
as a web based application, an appliance server, or via support contracts.
Additionally, customers often pay for modifications of the software, which
are normally merged into the main development release.

Some of the main challenges for development include the additional
overheads of maintaining datasets for multiple revisions of the product for
open source users, and ensuring compatibility with a large range of target
platforms. And international customer base requires i18n support throughout
the product. Additionally, continual feature requests need to be developed
and managed against the public release cycle.

The development process makes heavy use of a test based methodology.
Buildbot is used to run the test suite automatically on all supported
platforms. Some of this code is also reused in order to provide extensive
runtime monitoring of the product, and ensure it is functioning correctly.

Logicalware (the company behind MailManager) was one of the first companies
in the UK to receive VC funding for developing an open source product."

You can find the LogicalWare webpage, and mailmanager details at
http://www.logicalware.com/

Ben Thorp (aka mrben)