Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 00:01:07 +0200 (EET)
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Subject: MWS for 24th of November, 1999 (#23)
To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net, marty@linuxtoday.com,

Greetings!

Another week has passed, with lots of
interesting things going on in the Midgard
world. Especially, the new Demo server
is a very nice addition to the project. 
Now it is much easier for new users to get 
into Midgard development.

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

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Midgard 2 status update

Jukka Zitting sent a brief update on
the development status for Midgard's
next major version.

The features currently being worked on
include database independence, better
access control, modifiable record types,
and inbuilt replication and packaging
mechanisms. 

It is expected that we can release the
first beta for Midgard 2 in late December.

The status update can be found from
Midgard's mailing list archives:

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94344635030602&w=2

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Midgard Demo Site available

There is now a Midgard demo server 
running in Sweden. This new service
enables people interested in Midgard
to try it out safely without having to
install it beforehand.

The service is freely available, and
anyone interested trying it out can
use the Administrator account for 
creating test sites to the server. The 
database on the server is cleaned up
every 12 hours to ensure better 
accessibility of the service.

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1367.html

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The Midgard Development Meeting

This is just a quick reminder that the
Midgard development meeting will be held
tomorrow over IRC. Everyone interested
in working on the Midgard code should try
to get there.

The meeting begins on Thursday at 16
GMT and will probably be held on
irc.openprojects.net #midgard. Any
changes to this plan will be announced
on the Midgard mailing list.

Jukka Zitting will post the agenda
for the meeting later on.
  
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Red Hat i386 binaries for Midgard 1.2.5

Emile is now back from vacation, and has
made a RPM version of the latest stable
Midgard release available.

The binary RPMs are available as both
separate packages and in combination with
Apache and mod_ssl. The Source RPMs and 
the spec files are also available.

There has been lots of discussion about
getting Midgard packaged to also other 
platforms, and it would be nice to see
some progress in that field. Any volunteers
for working on it?

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/download/binaries/
  
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Account creation problems

There was a user permissions bug in the 
Midgard 1.2.5 release. This made Midgard
server not recognize members of the
Administrator group as valid users for 
creating new user accounts. User account
creation within the normal group ownership
system was not affected.

Emile has posted a patch for fixing this,
and the needed changes will also be made 
to the 1.2.5 packages on Midgard's site 
later on. 

Grab the patch for midgard-php-1.2.5 from:

  -> http://www.iris-advies.com/php/Emile.Heyns/midgard-php-1.2.5.patch

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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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