Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 18:32:40 +0200 (EET)
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Subject: MWS for 5th of January, 2000 (#27)
To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net, marty@linuxtoday.com,

Greetings!

This is the first Weekly Summary this year. 
A lot has happened since MWS #26 on December
22nd. The world didn't end, computers didn't 
crash, and work on Midgard continues steadily.

We have both a stable 1.2.x release and an 
alpha release of Midgard 2 coming up soon, 
and there is also much happening around the 
documentation effort.

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

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Midgard 1.2.6 test files available

We decided to still have at least one 
release for the current stable branch.
Midgard 1.2.6 will wrap up all code
updates that have come up since the
release of 1.2.5 last November. It
will also show many usability fixes for
the administration tools.

Related to this, Alexander Bokovoy, 
the author of Russian Midgard has now
been assigned as the maintainer of the 
stable branch. This means that his 
responsibility is to coordinate the 
releases in that branch, control the 
addition of new features and keep the 
regular and Russian Midgard packages 
synchronized.

Alexander is working on adding a tool
for cloning hosts and styles for the
Admin site, and the release of Midgard
1.2.6 will depend on the completion of
this feature. However, we expect to
have the release sometime around
January 20th.

You can grab the 1.2.6 beta files from 
Alexander's site or from the Midgard CVS
repository:

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94698730805358&w=2

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Midgard 2 API frozen

As Midgard 2 nears the first alpha
release, Jukka has finally committed
the last API changes to CVS.

This means that people working on
additions and language bindings for 
Midgard can finally start hacking.

These updates are an almost complete
alpha release, only the installation
mechanisms will need fixing before
we can have the test release out.
Jukka will try to get things ready
for that sometime next week.

Instructions for using the CVS 
repository can be found from Midgard's
site.

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1000.html

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Midgard and search engines

Emile has been working on adding search 
engine support to Midgard lately.

While normal search engines can easily 
index the HTML pages  generated by 
Midgard, the idea here is to enable
them to index the actual Midgard database 
instead. This would provide site 
developers with more flexible approaches 
to search engine integration and allow 
search  engines to support Midgard's 
access control features correctly.

Emile's current work has been on 
Udmsearch, to which he has a Midgard-
enabling patch available. If you are 
interested in testing this kind of 
functionality, you can get the patch 
from Emile's Web site:

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94648414615863&w=2
  
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Midgard Workshop 2 postponed

The second Midgard Workshop, about
to take place in Karlskrona, Sweden
has been postponed. The original
date planned was January 22nd/23rd,
but now it will be held sometime
later in the spring.

The reason for postponing the event
has been the small amount of registrations,
according to Michael Ed, the arranger
of the event.

We'll post the new date as soon as it
is announced. If you have any questions
about the event, please contact Michael
Ed (blixten@marlowes.com) directly.

Meanwhile, would there be interest
in arranging a similar event elsewhere?
I'm sure many Midgard developers would
be happy to show up. 

Information on what has been planned
for the Workshop in Karlskrona can be
found from Michael's site:

  -> http://www.marlowes.com/
  
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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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