A short history

Chronology

2002

The first release of the application was born as a custom-made development implemented by Igalia for an automotive glass replacement and repair company, Auto Arte. In the development contract was agreed to release the code with the GPL.

April, 2003

Igalia announces the release plan of its management application. Work is done during the first months of 2003 in order to prepare the code for publication.

May, 2003

Fisterra 1.4 is published (code, user and developer documentation)

July, 2003

Fisterra 1.5 is published, with some improvements and bugs fixed from the previous version

From September 2003

Development of Fisterra 2 (new version of the system, more generic and powerful)

2004

Fisterra 2 published

June, 2005

Now Fisterra 1.x is known as Fisterra Garage to avoid confussion with the Fisterra development framework.

July, 2005

Fisterra 2 packaged for Debian. Point of Sale (POS) functionality in fisterra-distribution module published.

Feb, 2007

Fisterra 2 packaged for Debian with Fisterra Garage v2 application implanted in AutoArte S.L.

The name of the project

On November 2002, while Igalia was developing the first versions of the project, the Prestige tanker sunk in front of Galiza's coast in the north-west of the Spanish State. Fisterra was one of the villages more affected by the disaster.

Fisterra is also a galician name coming from the latin word Finisterrae (the end of the land).
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