The project of the month is an interesting project using the CodingTeam software forge. Each month, I'll pick up another project that looks attractive and speak about it on this blog. Thus, the community gets a place to be known. So if you use CodingTeam (either CodingTeam.net or your own forge) your project can appear here! By the way, if you think that it would be captivating to present your project here, let me know!
The project of the month for february 2010 is Bechamail. And it becomes the first project of the month!
Bechamail is lead by Robert Sebille on CodingTeam.net since november 2007! He works on this project since 2005 for his association with help and feedbacks from the other members of it.
Bechamail is a French-speaking project written in PHP. It's an e-mail addresses manager. Concretely, it helps the sysadmin by providing an user oriented tool to easily configure e-mail addresses for one or more domain names. It fits to MTA and MDA configuration.
This project has been developed in an associative context as Robert is one of the fouding members of Cassiopea. The goal of this association is to heavily connect associative virtual networks and to help people to understand new technologies. Cassiopea provides internet services such as implementation or development of websites, mailing lists, domain names, e-mail addresses, trainings… to other Belgian associations.
Bechamail is born in 2005 because, at the start of this associative project, whenever it was necessary to create, modify or delete an alias or an e-mail box, they had to intervene on the server. It was inevitable to automate the process and allow members to manage their e-mails easily.
Bechamail is successfully used at Cassiopea and also at Banlieues, an association that focuses on the disadvantaged public. Those who want to try Bechamail can !
And now, a few questions asked to the project leader!
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How did you know CodingTeam?
By searching the web for forges lists (but I don't remember where). Functionnalities suited me and it was in French and English. It looked good to me to support a sofware forge available in French. There were not many.
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What CodingTeam brings in your project development?
Usual functionnalities of a software forge of course, like the essential SVN. Once you start to use CodingTeam, it's so practical, how to do without? ;). I remember a day, there was once a technical issue on the the server side, I really appreciated to be able to discuss it on the chatroom and the CodingTeam reactivity!
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What would you see in CodingTeam in the future?
I was going to say the dashboard, but it's already done ;), great! Then, e-mail report when someone answers to a bug or a feature request. Otherwise, I have to think regularly to consult the bug tracker or the RSS feed, and I don't always think about it, especially if I am busy with another project for a few months. That's why e-mail notifications would be useful for me, because I could see them even if I'm working elsewhere. I read the discussion here. The solution to choose to receive or not notifications seems good to me.
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Since you use CodingTeam, did you became rich and sexy?
Rich with money? Not so. On the other side, I found a lot of fortunes on CodingTeam.net ;). Sexy? I was already sexy before, in my point of view. ;)