Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 22:19:25 +0200 (EET)
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Subject: MWS for 1st of December, 1999 (#24)
To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net, marty@linuxtoday.com,

Greetings!

As the work on Midgard 2 gathers speed,
we'll mostly focus on announcing things 
in the development end this week. 

With all the projects going on around 
Midgard, I'm sure the weeks before the 
version 2 hits beta will be quite hectic.
However, I'll try to keep up with the 
these summaries.

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

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Midgard developer meeting IRC log

The first Midgard developer meeting over 
IRC took place on November 25th. There 
were about twelve attendees overall. The 
discussion was mostly about the 
architectural changes in Midgard 2, and 
some of the development projects including 
customizable records, access control, DAV 
and database independence.

You can find the raw IRC log from Midgard's 
site:

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1373.html

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Forthcoming Midgard 2 alpha

Jukka has promised to put together
a compilable version of the Midgard 2
code tree within next week or so. This 
version will then be released as a minimal 
alpha release. It will not yet be stable 
or featured enough for running any sites 
on, but should provide people developing it 
a better basis to work on.

The actual beta release will hopefully
take place sometime during this month, so
if you are not intending to work with the
Midgard sources, you probably won't need
the alpha version.

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Symlinks in content management

There have been many development and
research projects going on with Midgard
lately. Talk has mostly been about some
new features for the Midgard 2 architecture,
localization and packaging Midgard to new
platforms. One of the new features that
has been discussed quite much lately is
the planned ability for adding symlinks
into Midgard's content trees.

This feature is something that many people
managing large content structures have been
requesting for some time. So far only way
to achieve this capability has been by
handling it in the PHP end.

Emile is now planning a native Midgard
solution to the problem. There is some 
discussion on the best way to implement 
it on Midgard's mailing list:

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?t=94379435600001&w=2&r=1
  
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Midgard server downtime

We will take Midgard's Web and mail server
down for maintenance on either December 7th
or 8th. The downtime shouldn't be longer
than some hours, but as we plan to upgrade
both the operating system and hardware, it
might be a bit longer.

After the upgrade we will have 13GB of
disk space available instead of the 1.5GB 
we have now, so then we won't have so many 
problems with large binary packages on 
the server any more. Alas, this will also
mean switching from SCSI to IDE, but 
hopefully the performance won't decrease
too much.

We are also planning some major additions
to the Midgard Web site, but those will
probably wait until the Midgard 2 release
is finished.

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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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