Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 22:19:25 +0200 (EET)
From: Henri Bergius <<a
href=”mailto:Henri.Bergius@iki.fi”>Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Greetings!
As the work on Midgard 2 gathers speed, we’ll mostly focus on
announcing things in the development end this week.
With all the projects going on around Midgard, I’m sure the
weeks before the version 2 hits beta will be quite hectic. However,
I’ll try to keep up with the these summaries.
Current versions:
Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King)
Devel.: 1.3
Midgard developer meeting IRC log
The first Midgard developer meeting over IRC took place on
November 25th. There were about twelve attendees overall. The
discussion was mostly about the architectural changes in Midgard 2,
and some of the development projects including customizable
records, access control, DAV and database independence.
You can find the raw IRC log from Midgard’s site:
-> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1373.html
Forthcoming Midgard 2 alpha
Jukka has promised to put together a compilable version of the
Midgard 2 code tree within next week or so. This version will then
be released as a minimal alpha release. It will not yet be stable
or featured enough for running any sites on, but should provide
people developing it a better basis to work on.
The actual beta release will hopefully take place sometime
during this month, so if you are not intending to work with the
Midgard sources, you probably won’t need the alpha version.
Symlinks in content management
There have been many development and research projects going on
with Midgard lately. Talk has mostly been about some new features
for the Midgard 2 architecture, localization and packaging Midgard
to new platforms. One of the new features that has been discussed
quite much lately is the planned ability for adding symlinks into
Midgard’s content trees.
This feature is something that many people managing large
content structures have been requesting for some time. So far only
way to achieve this capability has been by handling it in the PHP
end.
Emile is now planning a native Midgard solution to the problem.
There is some discussion on the best way to implement it on
Midgard’s mailing list:
->
http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?t=94379435600001&w=2&r=1
Midgard server downtime
We will take Midgard’s Web and mail server down for maintenance
on either December 7th or 8th. The downtime shouldn’t be longer
than some hours, but as we plan to upgrade both the operating
system and hardware, it might be a bit longer.
After the upgrade we will have 13GB of disk space available
instead of the 1.5GB we have now, so then we won’t have so many
problems with large binary packages on the server any more. Alas,
this will also mean switching from SCSI to IDE, but hopefully the
performance won’t decrease too much.
We are also planning some major additions to the Midgard Web
site, but those will probably wait until the Midgard 2 release is
finished.
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
(Henri.Bergius@iki.fi).
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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