Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:55:17 +0300 (EEST)
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Subject: MWS for 18th of April, 2000 (#35)
To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net, marty@linuxtoday.com,

Greetings!

There has been a two-week pause in the publication 
of these summaries as I've been on vacation. 
Because of that, this week's MWS is rather 
populated with major announcements.

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Current versions:
	Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King)
	Devel.: 1.4-beta3

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Midgard 1.4-beta3 released

The latest beta in the 1.4 series of Midgard 
was released last night. This new release 
contains many nice improvements to the 
successful 1.2.6-beta2 release, including the 
SiteGroups virtual database environment and 
calendaring support.

As always, this release is for testing
purposes only, and shouldn't be used on
production servers. It is also recommended
to read the Release Notes before downloading
the packages.

"We hope that Midgard 1.4-beta3 will be useful 
for your needs and are waiting your responses 
in any cases, be it either success stories or 
bug notifications, or feature requests. Midgard 
is our common world of Open Software, let's build 
it together!"

The developer team can be contacted by sending
email to midgard@greywolves.org

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1678.html

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Goals and organization for Midgard documentation

The documentation efforts in Midgard have been
lagging behind the rest of the development for
quite some time, but now there seem to finally
be enough interested participants in the project
to actually start getting releasable documentation.

At the moment we're looking for a Documentation
Coordinator to work alongside our branch maintainers,
supervise the work on our documentation and help 
contributors to work with the documentation standards 
and tools used in this project. The responsibilities 
would also include maintaining some kind of view on 
what the general state of the documentation is and 
what needs to be done in that end. 

Sean D. Ackley and Armand A. Verstappen are looking 
at coordinating these efforts.

To help the documentation work, Ron Parker has written
a letter on his views on what the goals for the
documentation project should be, and how the work
should be organized.

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1679.html

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The Midgard Project Ry founded

We have founded a nonprofit organization to advance 
the development and usage of the Midgard Web Application 
environment and project, and to provide equal 
opportunities of making use of the system to both users 
and developers. 

To advance these goals, the organization offers the 
project the needed working environment and services 
infrastructure, and enhances the knowledgeability of
Midgard by publishing announcements and other material 
concerning Midgard. The organization also represents 
Midgard by participating to IT industry events and 
arranging training, PR, and other events. The 
organization also offers all contributors of the 
Midgard project the needed development environment by
governing the copyrights of the major components of 
the Midgard Application Server. 

To support its operations, the organization accepts 
donations from its supporters and collects membership 
fees from its members. In addition, the organization 
also practices publishing and sells supplemental 
products for the project.

The first board of The Midgard Project Ry is:

	Henri Bergius (Henri.Bergius@iki.fi) - Chairman
	Eero af Heurlin (Eero.Heurlin@iki.fi) - Vice Chairman
	Laeticia Söderman (lettu@greywolves.org) - Secretary
	Jukka Zitting (Jukka.Zitting@iki.fi) - Treasurer

Besides these, the existing branch maintainers will
function as organization officials, and will be working
closely with the board.

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Implementing two-way replication

The one-way implementation of Repligard replication
is now ready, and in use at some production-level
systems, and so it is now time to turn focus to
two-way replication.

The two-way replication development project will be 
handled by Jukka Zitting and Johannes Hentunen as a
internal development project of Stonesoft Corp, and 
will be contributed to the Midgard community under
GPL license.

Some design issues with the replication implementation
still remain, and so everybody interested in the
system is welcome to help with the process.

Jukka Zitting has posted a project plan to the
Midgard developer mailing list.

  -> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=midgard-dev&m=95606523909036&w=2

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Blob serving

Emiliano Heyns has posted the first version
of BLOB (Binary Large OBject) serving support
for Midgard.

This enables Midgard site maintainers to serve
and manage arbitary data (sound, images, video, 
...) natively with the Midgard database.

The extension is still very experimental, but
the work on integrating it with the main 1.4
source tree should begin quite soon.

  -> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=midgard&m=95582237805564&w=2

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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

 -LinuxProgramming
   -> http://www.linuxprogramming.com

 -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

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