Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:58:04 +0200 (EET)
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Subject: MWS for 16th of February, 2000 (#31)
To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net, marty@linuxtoday.com,

Greetings!

Due to problems with our email server, the
project has been advancing more slowly for
the last week. However, there are couple
of things to announce.

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Current versions:
	Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King)
	Devel.: 1.2.6-beta2 

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Midgard 1.2.6-beta2 released

The second beta for Midgard 1.2.6 was
released on February 7th as expected.

This release brings many frequently
requested improvements to the application
server, including better handling of
other character sets and general object
copying/moving.

This release is a development version
and we don't recommend deploying it on
production servers. Some bugs have
already emerged, particularly affecting
the MacOS X Server platform, and work is
underway for correcting those.

Please send any comments or questions about 
this release either to the Midgard mailing
list or directly to Alexander Bokovoy 
(bokovoy@minsk.lug.net).

The release can be found in both source
and RPM format from the Midgard Web site:

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1521.html

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Upgrading to Midgard 1.2.6-beta2 safely

Alexander Bokovoy  has posted an utility
to the Midgard mailing list which might
be of interest to users wanting to test
this new release with their normal Midgard
database.

Once this new utility has gone through
some testing we also look forward to
including it with the final release.

  -> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=midgard&m=95001616015934&w=2

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Mailing list problems

Our mailing list and all developer email
accounts on our primary server have been
unavailable since February 8th. This is
because our connection provider has done
some modification to their firewall, 
blocking SMTP traffic from our server.

This problem has clearly demonstrated how
dependent an Open Source project is on
its mailing lists, as most work on the
project has been practically halted due
to developers not being able to reach each
other.

Some good may be coming out of this, however.
We're now aware of the problem and have 
already been in talks with some project
members about setting up mirror servers
elsewhere. We'll announce those once they
become available.

While I'm writing this, the problem still
exists, but now we have a temporary mailing
list in place thanks to efforts of Emile
Heyns and Ron Parker. The temporary mailing
list can be reached at midgard@mi-recordz.com

We're synchronizing the subscriber lists 
between the servers so nobody has to 
re-subscribe.

  -> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=midgard&m=95073364628195&w=2

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Calendaring and Midgard

There has been some discussion on using
Midgard as a Web-based personal information
management (PIM) system. Midgard's group 
implementation is already good enough to
serve as a simple contact manager, but
besides this a good calendaring system
would be needed.

Last week David Guerizec announced his
proposal for the Midgard calendar API.
Documentation of the system and a test
application implemented in PHP are 
available from his site.

Once the system has gone through some
evaluation, we look forward to including
it into the Midgard libraries.

  -> http://webmaster.brainshaver.net/

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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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