Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:58:04 +0200 (EET) From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi> Subject: MWS for 16th of February, 2000 (#31) To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net, marty@linuxtoday.com, Greetings! Due to problems with our email server, the project has been advancing more slowly for the last week. However, there are couple of things to announce. ============================ ---------------------------- Current versions: Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King) Devel.: 1.2.6-beta2 ---------------------------- ============================ Midgard 1.2.6-beta2 released The second beta for Midgard 1.2.6 was released on February 7th as expected. This release brings many frequently requested improvements to the application server, including better handling of other character sets and general object copying/moving. This release is a development version and we don't recommend deploying it on production servers. Some bugs have already emerged, particularly affecting the MacOS X Server platform, and work is underway for correcting those. Please send any comments or questions about this release either to the Midgard mailing list or directly to Alexander Bokovoy (bokovoy@minsk.lug.net). The release can be found in both source and RPM format from the Midgard Web site: -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1521.html ---------------------------- Upgrading to Midgard 1.2.6-beta2 safely Alexander Bokovoy has posted an utility to the Midgard mailing list which might be of interest to users wanting to test this new release with their normal Midgard database. Once this new utility has gone through some testing we also look forward to including it with the final release. -> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=midgard&m=95001616015934&w=2 ---------------------------- Mailing list problems Our mailing list and all developer email accounts on our primary server have been unavailable since February 8th. This is because our connection provider has done some modification to their firewall, blocking SMTP traffic from our server. This problem has clearly demonstrated how dependent an Open Source project is on its mailing lists, as most work on the project has been practically halted due to developers not being able to reach each other. Some good may be coming out of this, however. We're now aware of the problem and have already been in talks with some project members about setting up mirror servers elsewhere. We'll announce those once they become available. While I'm writing this, the problem still exists, but now we have a temporary mailing list in place thanks to efforts of Emile Heyns and Ron Parker. The temporary mailing list can be reached at midgard@mi-recordz.com We're synchronizing the subscriber lists between the servers so nobody has to re-subscribe. -> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=midgard&m=95073364628195&w=2 ---------------------------- Calendaring and Midgard There has been some discussion on using Midgard as a Web-based personal information management (PIM) system. Midgard's group implementation is already good enough to serve as a simple contact manager, but besides this a good calendaring system would be needed. Last week David Guerizec announced his proposal for the Midgard calendar API. Documentation of the system and a test application implemented in PHP are available from his site. Once the system has gone through some evaluation, we look forward to including it into the Midgard libraries. -> http://webmaster.brainshaver.net/ ============================ ============================ 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 -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 -- -- Henri Bergius -- +358 40 525 1334 -- Henri.Bergius@iki.fi -- http://www.iki.fi/Henri.Bergius