Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:17:19 +0200 (EET)
From: Henri Bergius <<a
href=”mailto:[email protected]”>[email protected]
Greetings!
The weekly summaries for last two weeks weren’t published. This
is because I was very busy with some work projects. Things should
now calm down a bit and I’ll try to keep up a bit better with what
is happening around in the Midgard world.
As this this MWS covers three weeks’ period, I’ve had to leave
some things out from it, but I hope the things mentioned here do
enough to satisfy the most immediate information needs about the
Midgard project’s status. As usual, subscribing to the mailing list
is also a good way of keeping informed about what is going on.
Current versions:
Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King)
Devel.: 1.3
Midgard 1.2.5 released
Jukka released the latest addition to the ‘Mad King’ series,
Midgard version 1.2.5 on November 10th.
The release fixes some problems with the MidgardDatabase
directive and incorporates the Russian Midgard patch from Vladimir
Bokovoy. The actual Russian Midgard database will still be
distributed separately.
-> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1335.html
Combined Midgard + Apache package
Emile has put together a combination RPM package that includes
Apache 1.3.9, mod_ssl and Midgard. The goal of this package is to
make the installation of Midgard easier to new users. MySQL has
still to be installed from a separate RPM package.
The combination package is currently only available for Midgard
1.2.4, but a newer version will probably come out as soon as Emile
gets back from his two weeks’ vacation.
As the package includes mod_ssl for making the Admin Site usage
more secure, there are also some licensing concerns. Here is what
Emile writes on the subject:
“The current package uses RSA encryption, which is unencumbered
by patents and licensing in the EU, but can’t be used in the USA.
Blowfish may be a good replacement, being explicitly free for any
use, commercial or otherwise, anywhere in the world.
If anyone has previous experience with blowfish, knows about
browser support for it, or has authoritive references either
validating or debunking its strength, please post information on
the Midgard mailing list”
You can find the combination package from Midgard’s release
archives:
-> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1309.html
Midgard Developer Meeting
Many people have recently expressed interest in working on the
actual Midgard code, and Jukka has now called an IRC meeting for
organizing the distributed development effort.
The proposed time for the meeting is Thursday November 25th, at
about 16 GMT. Contact Jukka Zitting for further information.
->
http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94208129107619&w=2
Server problems
The Grey Wolves’ server, where Midgard’s Web and email services
are currently hosted had a power failure on Monday, and it took us
until today to get it back up. We apologize for the
inconvenience.
The next downtime will be on November 25th, when we will take
the server down for maintenance and addition of a new hard drive.
This should give us the needed resources for keeping the service in
still acceptable levels for some months. The downtime should be
only few hours.
For a longer term solution, we’ve been in talks with VA Linux
Systems about getting our services hosted there, but that will
probably still take some time.
Please try to bear with us while we get over these problems.
Midgard slides in PDF format
Marco Dings has converted the Midgard Workshop presentations
into a printable format. As there was quite much interest in them,
we’ve made the slides available in PDF format from Midgard’s Web
site.
-> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1337.html
About Midgard
Midgard is a freely-available Web application development and
publishing platform based on the popular PHP scripting language. It
is an Open Source development project, giving you the freedom to
create your solutions in an open environment. Midgard is the tool
for creating, modifying and maintaining dynamic database-enabled
web services.
-> http://www.midgard-project.org
About MWS
The Midgard Weekly Summary is a newsletter for the Midgard user
and developer community.
The MWS is currently being distributed in following mediums:
-The Midgard Project’s Web site -> http://www.midgard-project.org
-Linux Weekly News -> http://www.lwn.net
-Linux Today -> https://www.linuxtoday.com
-Linux Developer’s Network -> http://linuxdev.net
-Open Source Writers Group -> http://www.oswg.org
-Midgard mailing list
If you would like to release it elsewhere, please contact Henri
Bergius
([email protected]).
Previous issues of Midgard Weekly Summary can be found archived
at the Midgard web site. -> http://www.midgard-project.org/topic/169.html
/Bergie
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