Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:17:19 +0200 (EET)
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Subject: MWS for 17th of November, 1999 (#22)
To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net, marty@linuxtoday.com,

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 
immediateinformation 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.

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Current versions:
	Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King)
	Devel.: 1.3 

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

 -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

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/Bergie

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