[Setools] Quick Gjallar status

[goran at krampe.se]

Hi folks!

Ok, its weekend and I am not hacking much over weekends. But I still
wanted to give you all a quick status from my perspective.

We will do a test deployment at Micronic during the coming week and then
we aim at going live with a first group the week after. This will
obviously be a limited Gjallar version, but we still think we have
enough functionality to satisfy this first small specific group.

So the next week I will be focusing on details, bug fixing and I also
want to do some small performance tweaks and add some smaller features.
I hope to be able to set up a more complete test of the txn model -
rebuilding a db by simply applying all txns in series. Making sure this
works is a good precaution for doing future migrations to new Gjallar
versions.

As it looks today I will only be left working full time on Gjallar until
the 16th. After that I am off to another customer and a totally
different job for at least 3 months. But I will keep working on Gjallar
"on the side" and we do have several leads to follow that might generate
more paid work on it further down the road - from the Hosit conference
here in Stockholm there were a bunch of seriously interested people.
Toolkit is dedicated to move Gjallar forward the best we can.

I will also work paid support hours on Gjallar from now on, then we will
see what happens at Micronic over the next months and how they plan to
move forward.

The promised 0.3 release is very, very close - I will make sure it gets
done during the coming week.

regards, Göran