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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:28:45 +0300 (EEST)
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Subject: MWS for 18th of August, 1999 (#12)
To: The Midgard Mailing List <midgard@greywolves.org>, lwn@lwn.net,

Greetings!

Another week has passed busily with lots
of things happening in the Midgard world.

As Midgard's documentation projects gain
speed, the Open Source Writer's Group has
also started running news on our efforts
on that area. OSWG is a collaboration
group for people working on documentation
for Open Source projects.

And now to this week's news:

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On Midgard's documentation

Last week we spoke about the state of
Midgard's documentation. A lot has happened
since.

We decided to combine the separate documentation
efforts into one bigger project, the Midgard
Manual. The manual would be a complete guide to
Midgard starting from acquiring Midgard, and
going through topics like Midgard usage
and administration to Midgard's function reference.

We'll also try to get included a summary for 
decision makers on the whys and hows of implementing 
Midgard solutions in businesses. It would be nice to 
have a semi-suit to write this, Midgard developers can 
provide the background information and cases as 
needed.

To make this new documentation plan work better
we try to move the documentation projects to a
common platform. The idea is to use the DocBook
SGML tools for writing the documents and Midgard's
CVS repository for storing them.

If you are interested in participating in the
project, please contact the Midgard mailing list.

To learn more on our new documentation plans,
the thread from Midgard's list can be found
from the archives.

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?t=93498315900008&w=2&d=1&r=1

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The schedule for Midgard 1.2

Unless some surprises appear, the next stable
release of Midgard, 1.2, is now ready and
available in the CVS repository.

The reason why it hasn't been released yet
is because Jukka is now in training, and
so will be mostly offline until Friday, 
and so testing the release is not yet finished.

People interested in testing it can do so
by using the anonymous CVS. As the database
upgrading script will be written only during
the final testing, it is not yet there and
there will probably be some problems.

The new features of Midgard 1.2 include:

	-Database connectivity via ODBC 
	 (only MySQL for now)
	-improved access control 
	-document handling (checkin/out, locking) 
	-user preferences 
	-patched PHP 3.0.12

We look forward to releasing 1.2 on
Friday the 20th, before that it should
be treated as beta.

The instructions for using the anonymous
CVS are in Midgard's developer site.

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

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Midgard Workshop

Michael Ed suggested on the Midgard mailing
list that we should hold a workshop for Midgard
users and developers in Finland.

Jukka and I liked the idea, and are now starting
to work on the arrangements. It should be held
sometime in mid-October in Helsinki, preferably
so that it would coincide with the Linux@Work
conference there.

The workshop will include tutorials and lectures
about using and developing Midgard, and will be
free. Stonesoft Corp. and Takomo Oy will provide
us the needed facilities so that won't be a 
problem.

More information (like the exact date) should become
available during next week. Please contact me
(Henri.Bergius@iki.fi) for more information.

There was some discussion on it in the mailing
list:

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?t=93445134100002&w=2&d=1&r=1

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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 Developer's Network
   -> http://linuxdev.net

 -Open Source Writer's Group
   -> http://www.thepuffingroup.com/oswg

 -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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