GNU Enterprise Project History
- 1996 - Wiesiek Poszewiecki begin GNU G/L.
- 1997 through 1998 - Jonas Öberg and Wiesiek Poszewiecki
begin pulling GNU G/L together after it was dormant.
- July 1999 - Project obelisk managed by James Thompson
(USA) and Didier Legein (Belgium) and the GNU G/L (FSF
Project) managed by Jonas Oberg (Sweden) merge to become
GNU Enterprise. The goal: to do more that just G/L.
- February 2000 - Project sanity (ERP) managed by Jade
Meskill (USA) and Derek Neighbors (USA) inquire and
merge with GNUe.
- March 2000 - Lacking an existing framework to build an EPR
system upon, the GNUe developers decide to start work by
creating a framework for database applications. During the late
spring and early summer Reinhard Müller (Austria), Arno
Pedusaar (Estonia), and Bill Hamilton (USA) join the
core team.
- July 2000 - James Thompson checks in the first real GNUe Forms code.
Treshna, represented by Andrew Murie (New
Zealand) and Andrew Hill (New Zealand), join the core
team, committ full time resources, and start work on
a C implementation of a GNUe Application Server (GEAS).
- November 2000 - Neil Tiffin (USA) joins the core team.
Derek Neighbors and Jade Meskill demonstrate GNUe Forms
at FALL COMDEX Las Vegas.
- February 2001 - Derek Neighbors speaks on Free Software
Panel at LinuxWorldExpo New York.
- March 2001 - Jason Cater (USA) joins the core team.
James Thompson and Jason Cater work on early versions
of GNUe Forms.
- April 2001 - Jason Cater starts work on GNUe Reports.
Parts of GNUe Forms are separated out into GNUe Common so
GNUe Reports can reuse that code.
- June 2001 - Jason Cater starts work on GNUe Designer.
New interactive web site introduced at
http://www.gnuenterprise.org.
- July 2001 - Treshna stops development of GEAS.
- January 2002 - Work starts on GNUe Navigator.
- April 2002 - Reinhard Müller and Jan Ischebeck start work
on the new, Python based implementation of GNUe AppServer.
Bajusz Tamás joins the development team.
- August 2002 - Website re-vamped and re-launched.
- August 2002 - GNUe stand at LinuxWorldExpo, San Fransisco.
- September 2002 - First release of GNUe Navigator
- October 2002 - "Halloween" meeting of Appserver
developers at LinuxWorldExpo, Frankfurt, Germany.
- January 2003 - Johannes Vetter joins the development team
and works on GNUe AppServer.
- December 2003 - GNU Enterprise switches from CVS to Subversion
- March 2005 - After the release of GNUe AppServer 0.4, Reinhard Müller and Johannes Vetter move their focus to GNUe Common.
At the same time, RealLife(tm) drags James Thompson and Jason Cater more and more out of GNUe development.
Bajusz Tamás takes over development of GNUe Reports.
- June 2005 - GNUe uses Roundup for bug tracking.
- January 2006 - BYTEWISE aquires public funding for a year of development of GNUe Forms.
Reinhard Müller and Johannes Vetter put significant time into creating GNUe Forms 0.6
- May 2007 - Unfortunately, no new developer for GNUe Designer has been found, and GNUe Designer does not work any more with current versions of GNUe Forms.
With a heavy heart, the GNUe team decides to declare GNUe Designer unmaintained.
- October 2009 - After more than two years of project inactivity, Reinhard Müller restarts work on GNUe.
One of the first items on the todo list is the long overdue switch to GPL version 3.
- February 2010 - Reinhard Müller takes over the job as the official project maintainer from James Thompson.