I just wanted to write a quick post to let everyone know that while Ground Control has been slumbering (or smouldering) it has not been forgotten. In the meantime I trust many of you were being sufficiently distracted solving various heists and watching MacHeist raise a hefty amount of money for charity (oh, and offer a pretty nice bundle of apps to boot). Way to go Phil and the whole MacHeist team. You guys really outdo yourselves.
For me personally, this has been a pretty crazy, busy time since MDA finished up and I was only able to keep a cursory glance on MacHeist and pretty much the same thing for GC. But judging by the web logs, it seems that many of you keep visiting on a regular basis hoping for some new news and I wanted to give you a little something to hope for over the holidays.
Steve Streza is finishing up Tubular (the last “5% is 95% of the work” part). He is looking at a 1.0 release before Christmas and then he’ll need to work on at least a couple of point upgrades right after that to get everything running swimmingly. If you’re not already, you can keep track of Tubular at http://www.tubularapp.com/blog/.
As for Ground Control, Steve will be starting on a paper for the plugin architecture for GC hopefully over the Christmas break (I have a hard time calling it winter break). Steve’s obvious priorities right now are school and finishing up Tubular so we’re looking at late January – early February before things start really moving forward with GC.
It seems we have some pretty good support still from the MDA team and look forward to seeing some modules developed for some of the upcoming MDA apps as well a commitment from John Casasanta to develop an iClip module. I have tentatively approached some other app developers regarding module development but it is still too early to confirm other third party interest. I’m hoping once Steve has the plugin architecture articulated, we’ll be able to more agressively shop other possible development.
Look for more action in the GC Forum soon (and feel free to put in your .02¢ too). In the meantime I hope everyone has a happy holiday season and I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and look forward to touching base after the New Year.
