Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 20:21:18 +0300 (EEST)
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Subject: MWS for 6th of October, 1999 (#19)
To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net, chris@linuxdev.net, deb@linuxchix.org

Greetings!

I'm writing this during another very busy week.
Jukka has now moved into teleworking, and so things
are quite chaotic in the office. But even with that,
things are progressing in a very nice pace.

The plans for the next version of Midgard are now
solidifying, and some of the code is already in
place. We've also got some interesting contacts over 
possible future features for Midgard and  
hopefully we hear more about them later on. 

People are still having lots of problems with Midgard 
installations, but otherwise things are looking very
good. However, having more volunteers packaging 
Midgard for various platforms could help.

But now to the actual headlines:

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Current versions:
	Stable: 1.2.3 (Mad King)
	Devel.: 1.3 

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The Road to Midgard 2.0

Jukka has written about our plans for the forthcoming
2.0 release. The document lists the components of the
new library architecture and tells about their current
state.

The plan to change the version number for the release
from 1.4 to 2.0 was caused by the fact that the version
will be an almost complete rewrite of the Midgard system
and that should be reflected in the version numbering.

You can find the email from Midgard's mailing list 
archives:

 -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=93898277509113&w=2

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DevShed interview on Midgard

The Developer Shed has a nice interview with Henri 
Bergius, Emiliano Heyns and Jukka Zitting of The 
Midgard Project.

Topics discussed include DAV, Zope, Midgard 2.0 and 
our release naming conventions. There is also a 
talkback area available on the site. 

  -> http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/Midgard/
  
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Planning the DAV implementation

Emile has written some notes on a possible way
of implementing the DAV (Distributed Authoring
and Versioning) specification in Midgard.

 "This will move to the midgard site soon, but this 
 is pretty incoherent at the moment; I wouldn't want 
 to have the world think the Midgard team is a 
 disorganized bunch of loonies (even if I may be :). 
 This is an early draft. I really need all the input 
 I can get on this, and if you feel like a little 
 (OK, a lot probably) of midnight hacking, I'm soon 
 going to have all the coding work you can handle, 
 and then some. :)"

The DAV system sounds very interesting, and it
would be a nice thing to have a solid implementation
of it in Midgard. Go check the document out!

  -> http://www.iris-advies.com/php/Emile.Heyns/mgddav.html

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Workshop updates

The first Midgard Workshop will be held on 
Wednesday 13th of October in Helsinki, Finland. 
It is to be expected that it will slightly 
disrupt the release of next MWS.

The event is now full, and we won't be taking
any further registrations, except in the 
possibility of someone canceling their
participation.

We're currently hacking presentations for
the event with MagicPoint, a nice open source
presentation tool for Linux. With it, the 
slides are created using simple ASCII formatting
rules, and so we can distribute the work with 
our CVS repository. 

The slides will be made available on Midgard's 
site after the event and have been designed 
generic enough to be usable also on other 
occasions.

For reference, the schedule of the event
can be found from Midgard's site:

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1211.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 Developer's Network
   -> http://linuxdev.net

 -Open Source Writers 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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-- Henri Bergius -- +358 40 525 1334 -- Henri.Bergius@iki.fi --
               http://www.iki.fi/Henri.Bergius