Hi all,
Today I'm glad to announce project Planetarium to you all!
Some of you might have already heard of Planetarium in the #zftalk.dev
channel. For those of you that haven't, allow me to get you up to speed.
Planetarium is a blog aggregator much like the one used for Planet
PHP. It differs from existing aggregators in the fact that it makes
use of the Zend Framework to accomplish its task.
There are basically two reasons why we decided to setup a new project.
For one, this piece of software can serve as an example to demonstrate
a fully operational Zend Framework based application to the world.
Also, Zend is looking to set up a central place where Zend Framework
developers can read all Zend Framework related blog posts. What better
software to use for Zend Framework related articles than a Zend
Framework based application? ;)
At the moment of writing the project is still in its infant stages and
not much code is written yet. There's a small requirements
specification in the project's SVN, for those of you who want to read
about Planetarium in more detail.
I want to encourage you - the Zend Framework community - to join us
in developing this great new product. You can contribute even by just
hanging around in our IRC channel and discussing ideas or you could
decide to help out with documentation or some coding. This project is,
like the Zend Framework is, a real community effort and will be
released with the same generous BSD license as the Zend Framework
itself.
For more information, have a look at the links posted at the bottom of
this email.
See you on IRC or the mailing lists!
- Jurriën
P.S.: The promised links:
SF.net project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/zf-planetarium/
Mailing lists: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=234479
Requirements specification:
http://zf-planetarium.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/zf-planetarium/trunk/docs/requirements.txt?view=markup
IRC: #planetarium @ irc.freenode.net
