Hi Jurriën, Not many people are aware of this since it's been going on slowly over a couple of months, but I've been running a parallel course. I started back in January (before the chaos of February hit me) prototyping some code for a future aggregator. It hasn't gone a huge step forward but it's heavily linked to the ongoing Example Blog Series I've been doing for a while. As an exercise in kill two birds with one stone it's a good match. In January we also moved to register the planetzendframework.com domain (and its close relatives). We considered planetzf.com - but figured zf wasn't obvious enough and we're all verbose characters anyway. I do know Zend snapped it up though back in April ;).
Based on the progress to date since I got back to work in May, we were aiming for a release date out in August/September. Most of the aggregator scripting I have works but we're missing a completed piece to weed out duplicate entries and catch additional RSS oddities (both problems are linked - can't find duplicates if some RSS isn't correctly parsed). Largely it's been something worked on in those infrequent downtimes a few of us have. It has ended up being a bit hackish as a result but a cleanup can be done once it all ticks. We haven't considered it seriously as an open source work though the growing blog series I'm writing is working towards it. It still won't be an Aggregator - it's first and foremost a simple one-person blog app. I in no way post this to discourage - I think having well executed (non-hackish) examples of Zend Framework applications is an important part of establishing common ground on how to put an application together. I'd suggest following the progress of Zend_Tool to see where it introduces new conventions while automating project setups and such. I also have no idea whether Zend plans a planet aggregator site but they do have a domain for a possible one, but we've had some fun, arguments and laughs building this one and I will be putting it out there. I guess the last straw on my side was seeing my own blog kicked off Planet-PHP for being too Zend Framework oriented (project related blogs are not acceptable on Planet-PHP). That brought home my own recent motivation to get something up and running where any ZF related posts are welcome and where I and others can be aggregated without fear of being booted. Best of luck, Paddy Pádraic Brady http://blog.astrumfutura.com http://www.patternsforphp.com OpenID Europe Foundation ----- Original Message ---- From: Jurriën Stutterheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Zend Framework - General <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:54:26 PM Subject: [fw-general] Announcing Project Planetarium! 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
