14 DAY TRIAL // The Ubuntu Harvest project has been revamped and is now live again. Harvest enables Ubuntu contributors to find things they could work on, fixing simple bugs and updating packages that may not be getting the attention they need.
Ubuntu Harvest has been rewritten to make it easier to update and also adds more information about the packages.
"Harvest is online again and available at http://harvest.ubuntu.com. I’d like to thank everybody who helped to make this possible, most of all Dylan McCall who worked on this as part of his Summer of Code project," Daniel Holbach announced.
A number of changes have been implemented, the biggest of which is the fact that the project is now based on Django, a web framework using Python.
"Harvest is now written using Django which makes it much more maintainable and easy to work on. Check out lp:harvest and propose a merge to help out making it better," he explained.
"Harvest now has a proper release procedure, which should help making it more of a community infrastructure than it ever was," he added.
This new feature should come in handy for those working on Harvest since the steps needed to patch and update it are clearly laid out.
"Harvest now has package set information which should make it much more usable," he said.
There are still plenty of things to be done, one of them is fixing all of the bugs still remaining in Harvest. The project itself is also split into two parts, the Harvest and the Harvest-data Launchpads.
Even though Harvest is available again, it's still pretty much in testing and the developers are asking users to be on the lookout for bugs and things that need improving. Much of the focus now is on development for Natty Narwhal aka Ubuntu 11.04.