Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:26:51 +0300 From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi> To: Midgard mailing list <midgard@greywolves.org>, lwn@lwn.net, Subject: MWS for 4th of August, 1999 (#9) Greetings! This is the tenth issue of Midgard Weekly Summary. We've been publishing these on various channels every week after 26th of May, except for one quiet week in late June. Previously, the MWS was run in two newsfeeds, the Midgard Web site and Linux Weekly News. Now a third Web site has joined this group: Linux Developer's Network at http://LinuxDev.Net. Thanks to Christopher Tan for this support! And now to the news: ============================ ============================ Midgard documentation projects Good documentation is an essential part of any development platform, and so Midgard shouldn't be without it. As the project is fairly young in its public form we haven't yet had the resources to create adequate documentation on its installation and usage. Now, thanks to the Open Source Writer's Group and some volunteers, we are finally getting the documentation process started. Many people have contacted me to ask how to contribute to the documentation projects. Here is a list of what is going on with them. If you are interested in helping, please either contact the people working on existing projects, or contact me about starting a new one. -Jonni Lehtiranta (alokas@greywolves.org) and Mark Constable (markc@renta.net) are maintaining the Midgard FAQ. -Jean-Pierre Arneodo (arneodo@initiative.fr) is working on the function reference. -Craig Sprout (csprout@wtp.net) has volunteered to create a 'Getting Started' guide for Midgard. Besides these, we have some plans on what kinds of documentation would be useful to Midgard users and developers. At first, it will be propably best to concentrate on documenting the installation and configuration phase so that people could get Midgard working more easily. After this, some notes on the architecture and methodology would be in order as well as some nice tutorials on common topics. Please contact me (Henri.Bergius@iki.fi) for more information. ---------------------------- Installation manual for Midgard Eddie Azman (ea118@yahoo.com) has written an installation manual for Midgard based on his experiences with the Iron River release. At the moment the manual is still maintained on his own Web server, but will propably be transferred to Midgard's Web site later on as a standard part of Midgard's documentation. Hopefully this will help our new users on the rocky path of Midgard installation. -> http://www.aeefyu.com/midgard-inst/ ---------------------------- ODBC-enabled Midgard ready for testing Jukka Zitting has posted a test version of the forthcoming 1.2 release of Midgard to the 'Development Materials' section of the Midgard Web site. This test version is the first development release of Midgard that uses ODBC for its database connectivity. At the moment it will only work with the MySQL database, but the problems with other databases should be fixed quite soon. The test version can be built to use either the iODBC or the unixODBC library for ODBC support. -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1120.html ---------------------------- New developer mailing list There is now a new mailing list for Midgard developers. The mailing list is mostly for monitoring new updates to Midgard's CVS repository. Development discussions will still be held on the general mailing list. You can subscribe the new midgard-dev list by sending a blank message to midgard-dev-subscribe@greywolves.org -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=93371687528886&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 Developer's Network -> http://linuxdev.net -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 ============================ -- -- Henri Bergius -- +358 40 525 1334 -- Henri.Bergius@iki.fi -- http://www.iki.fi/Henri.Bergius