Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 21:53:13 +0200 (EET)
From: Henri Bergius Henri.Bergius@iki.fi
Subject: MWS for 8th of March, 2000 (#32)
Greetings!
I’m sorry for not writing summaries for last two weeks. I’ve
simply been too busy with work stuff to do so. There would’ve been
many things to announce, and I’ll now try to summarize the
important ones here briefly.
My schedule should be clearing up somewhat, though, so expect
these to come out more regularly again in near future. But now to
the news.
Current versions:
Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King)
Devel.: 1.2.6-beta2
New request tracking system
Our project has now started using Stonekeep Consulting’s
KeyStone software for keeping track of wishlist items and bug
reports.
The system is Web-based and is hosted on Midgard developer
Carilda Thomas’ server.
Requests can be browsed and issued anonymously. User accounts
for Midgard developers are available by request from Emile
Heyns.
You can find some guidelines on using KeyStone from the Midgard
Web site:
-> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1571.html
Request for coders
The new system for handling wishlist items easily has the
potential to bring up many interesting new possibilities for
Midgard development. This will also bring opportunities for
programmers interested for participating in Midgard development to
start so with interesting subprojects.
Possible areas to work on range from better administration
interfaces to PIM systems and installation utilities, so there are
lots of approaches to choose from for coders and documentation
writers alike.
Emile’s original email can be found from the mailing list
archives. If you’re interested, don’t hesitate to contact the
Midgard developer team.
->
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=midgard&m=95149597622773&w=2
Mail problems solved
We finally got the mail problems haunting us solved about a week
ago. The original problem was about our hosting provider suddenly
starting to block all SMTP traffic to our primary server.
Now, thanks to the help of many members of the Midgard user
community, we have our mailing lists back online and things working
as usual.
We also have many of our critical services mirrored to systems
hosted in other parts of the world that can be taken into use quite
swiftly if needed, so the results of the email blackout were not
completely negative. Currently the focus has been on mirroring
mostly our email and DNS systems, but CVS and Web site mirrors will
probably follow quite shortly.
Thanks to everybody who helped us in this!
Version number for Midgard 1.2.6 changed
We have now decided to change the version number of Midgard
1.2.6 to 1.4. This is because it contains too much features and
newly-written code to justify it being listed as a mere patch to
the 1.2 source tree.
The 1.2.6-beta2 release has mostly been accepted as a successful
one (although it still won’t run on Mac OS X Server), and we’re now
working on the third beta release. The third beta should be ready
in the next couple of weeks, with the final 1.4 release hopefully
following quickly afterwards.
The beta 3 will finally contain the Repligard site replication
and packaging utility, and numerous other improvements.
If you’re interested in the discussion about the version number
change, it can be found from the developer mailing list
archives.
-> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=95228274100001&w=2&r=1
Site groups
So far Midgard’s user permission system has been mostly designed
for running a separate Midgard server for each organization using
the server, and so hasn’t really had a good way for allowing
limited administrator-level rights for several different groups on
a single server.
To solve this, Emile has announced a new system for handling the
Midgard access control data in the 1.2 architecture. This system
involves marking a ‘sitegroup’ information to each toplevel entry
in a Midgard database, and then allowing creation of administrator
accounts that have administrative rights only for records that are
in their site group.
The sitegroup system is now available as a patch to Midgard
1.2.6-beta2, but will probably find its way into the main code tree
soon. At the moment it is still experimental code, so it is
probably a good idea to test it thoroughly before using it on a
production server.
->
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=midgard-dev&m=95237422904457&w=2
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
-> http://www.linuxtoday.com
-Linux Developer’s Network
-> http://linuxdev.net
-Midgard mailing list
If you would like to release it elsewhere, please contact Henri
Bergius (Henri.Berguis).
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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