Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 16:04:09 +0200 (EET)
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Subject: MWS for 2nd of February, 2000 (#30)
To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net, marty@linuxtoday.com,

Greetings!

This week is a bit quieter on announcements
as everybody has been working on the existing
projects. However, we should have some new
test releases available soon, and many promising
new features have been discussed on the mailing
lists.

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Current versions:
	Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King)
	Devel.: 1.2.6 beta 1 

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Midgard 1.2.6 beta 2 schedule

Alexander Bokovoy has announced that the 
second beta of Midgard 1.2.6 should be 
released quite soon, probably already on 
Friday this week.

The release will first be available from 
Alexander's Web site, but we will try to 
add it to the CVS repository and the Midgard
Web site soon afterwards.

At this point the beta is almost finished,
but the import utility and Admin site will
still need some work.

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94949258425357&w=2

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Midgard RPMs for Mandrake

Thanks to Ronan-Yann Lorin, we now have
RPM packages of Midgard 1.2.6 beta 1 and 
Midgard 1.2.5 for Linux-Mandrake.

The packages are available as both source
and binary RPMs, and should work with 
Linux-Mandrake versions 6.1 and 7.0. 

At this point the files can be downloaded
from Ronan-Yann's FTP site, but we look
forward to making them also available on
the main Midgard site.

  -> ftp://194.206.53.42/pub/

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Enabling user self-registration

Many sites want to enable their visitors
to register and create user accounts for
themselves. The permission system in 
the Midgard 1.x series makes this a bit
difficult, as all create operations need
to be made by authenticated users.

The new access control system in Midgard 2 
will make the process easier, but before
that it requires a bit of working around.

There was recently a thread on the mailing
list about this, and people interested in
deploying a user self-registration system
on their sites will probably be interested
it. Similar techniques can also be applied 
to other create operations, like article
comments and bulletin boards.

The discussion (and some code examples) can 
be found from the mailing list archives.

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?t=94943912600001&w=2&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 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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