Archive for March, 2007

Visual Liturgy Live progress report

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

As I said last week, we’re in the final stages of testing Visual Liturgy Live, and our development team now have the Release Candidate ready. That’s the version of the code that is a “candidate for release;” in other words we put this version through its final exams and then allow it through to the release process, which culminates in the pressing and packaging of CD-ROMs. At this stage we wouldn’t expect to find any major problems that would stop the show.

The work that’s been going on since Friday last week is in three parts: adding content to the pages of www.visualliturgylive.net, testing the subscription and registration services, and preparing the database to be pressed onto the CD-Rom with the software. (more…)

The release of Visual Liturgy Live

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

It’s now mid-March, and those of you waiting for the release of Visual Liturgy Live, or for news about its release, have been waiting for too long. I owe you an apology, on behalf of Church House Publishing and the VL Development team; first for our misplaced optimism about the VL Live release date; and secondly for keeping you in the dark too long since we came across our latest set of issues and delayed the release for the second time.

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