スノーフレイク株式会社・snowflake

Launch of todoyu 2.0

The final version of todoyu 2.0 launched

snowflake's new open source software todoyu 2.0 for project- and task management, time tracking and team collaboration is ready and we launch the stable version.

We fixed about 200 inconsistencies and bugs and invested more than 550 working hours since the last release candidate (RC2). All of us have been working very hard to achieve this major milestone, and I am very happy with the result. Also it's great to see how people around the world began to use todoyu and even contribute to it with language translations. Thank you very much!

Enjoy organizing your projects and tasks with todoyu. It's now stable... and it's free. Download todoyu 2.0.0 now.

Support for Time Zones

todoyu is all about working on projects in a team. In a global business world, team members but also clients can be located on several different locations. To also support such circumstances, we brought time zone support into todoyu.

The settings are made in two steps. In the todoyu installation process, you first set the default time zone of your system. Next you specify the time zone in the address field of a person or a company. If a person has no address but is connected to an employer, the time zone will be taken from that company record.

More Browsers, Including IE8

todoyu supports now the four major web browsers for a smooth operation: Safari from Apple, Chrome from Google, Internet Explorer from Microsoft and Firefox from Mozilla.

The styling for IE 8, Chrome and Safari are all set. Unfortunately not all of them support the nice interactions as Firefox does, but we tried hard to make the work with all browsers as smooth as possible.

Download Firefox for the best user experience

New Language: Brazilian Portuguese

Thanks to the speedy translation made by Max N Kanadani from Brazil, we now already have Portuguese Brazilian as new language available. A third language beside English and German.

We also get to know, that other enthusiasts started their work to translate todoyu into even more languages. That's great news! Thanks for your efforts.

Upload your Company Logo

By default todoyu comes with the snowflake logo. We do very well understand, that is the first thing you would like to customize: to upload a logo and put the branding of your organization.

This is now available to administrators. Go to the Admin module and select "System Configuration". There you find a field to choose your logo and upload it as a jpg, png or gif file. And todoyu then automatically resizes it to the maximum dimensions of 190x60 pixels. So it always looks great, not streched. Neat.

Translating todoyu

Very positively surprised about translating efforts by the community, we switched todoyu 2.0.0 from simple translation to the more fine-grained localization method (L10N). We changed to two-letter codification (e.g. de -> de_CH).

Is your language still missing? Are you interested in working on a translation? We support your efforts. And by the way, you don't need necessarily to be a developer. We show you how it works. Don't forget that you will get listed as contributor on todoyu.com (if you want...)

Are you into translation? Then get in contact with us.

Commitment to Open Source

We have been asked by some of you, if todoyu will be free also in the future. Our clear answer is: YES. We are strongly commited to open source and free software. We guarantee you that it will stay free for you to download and use.

Our business model for todoyu is based on future todoyu extensions mainly for professional use (e.g. billing, resource planning). Also we are planning to offer hosting packages for users looking for a way to get todoyu without having to install and host it by themselves.

The software, the core of todoyu, is and will be free to download and use for everyone.

Documentation Updated

Together with the software release, we have also updated documentations:

The Quickstart Guide is for users and administrators alike to get to know todoyu. It's a PDF with 17 pages.

The other documentation is for developers. The API Doc is also available and updated. You find there in-depth information about data structure, classes and class hierarchies, data fields and lists of namespaces and files.

Discover the API Documentation (online)
Download the Quickstart Guide (PDF)

What's Coming Next

With the final release of todoyu today, we set the solid fundament for many more things to come. We already started working on a redesign of our website todoyu.com. It will become a modern and enjoyable place for you to experience all about todoyu.

Also we work on the todoyu Extension Repository (tER) as we have many ideas for more features for todoyu. You too? We want to create a place to showcase all add-ons.

Have you noticed that todoyu 2.0.0 already has 14 extensions included? There is also a button to install new extensions in the admin module. So with the tER, there will be an area to share and showcase all extensions at todoyu.com.

Beside free extensions, we also work specifically on two extensions targeted towards professional-use: billing and resource planning. We will bring these professional extensions first as a preview, also for you to understand our intension with tER, free extensions and professional extensions.

So stay tuned. And if a new feature idea comes up...

...leave us a comment at the message board

Download todoyu 2.0 now

todoyu 2.0 (stable) is ready to download.
Changelog of todoyu 2.0

Test it, try it, use it... it's free.

あなたのコメント

この投稿記事に誰かがコメントを追加したときに通知する