I’ve just pushed release 1.0.0 of the Data Journalism Developer Studio into the SUSE Gallery. Changes:
- The base appliance ships with Mozilla Firefox as the browser rather than Chromium. Chromium is available as an add-on installation script set. This was a difficult decision for me to make, but the version of Chromium in the Open Build Service is 13.0.xxx, which is updated frequently and can be unstable. This is roughly equivalent to Google’s “Canary” build on Windows and Macintosh. Chromium was proving too unstable for regular use, so I replaced it with Firefox.
- I added CoffeeScript to the install scripts for node.js and NowJS. If you’re a JavaScript developer, I welcome more suggestions for node.js packages.
I’m planning to open the project up to other developers in the near future. Now that the Fundry feature request mechanism is in place, the road map is public. My own plan is to start building user-level documentation. Most of the software in the appliance is well-documented on its own, but there aren’t too many examples of application-level usage that I’ve been able to find.
