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Greetings!
This is the first of the biweekly Midgard Weekly
Summaries. We have been working with the template a
little bit to make it as useful, and easy to use, a
publication as possible. I welcome all feedback and am
especially interested in how readable the text is when
it gets to your screen. I have been wrestling with a
certain word processor from Redmond to get the text to
mail as well as possible but would love to hear of
other alternatives. Let me know what you think.
Contents:
Editor's Note
Welcome to a new MWS.
- More information, easier to read, biweekly
Migrating to 1.4 from earlier installations.
- Most of us will have to do it eventually, planning
a roadmap from 1.2.x to 1.4
Starting a site redesign.
-We are starting to think about what the site needs
to do and how. What do you think?
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Welcome to the new Midgard Weekly Summary.
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We are in the process of redesigning and refining the
layout and publication of the venerable MWS. Our goals
in this are twofold. On one hand we are trying to
include as much useful information as possible in as
logical a structure as possible. To that end at the
bottom of the page you will find directions for
subscribing to the Midgard list, a list of sites using
Midgard as well as links to documentation and
downloads. At the same time we are trying to make it
as easy as possible to find out what is in the news.
Towards that goal we have tried to condense the top
section of the news and included a 'table of contents'
with summaries of this week's articles. We will also
be adding a new [EMAIL PROTECTED] email address
in the coming weeks for feedback and contributions,
until then reply to the MWS on the Midgard mailing
list.
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Migrating to new versions of Midgard.
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The coming months will bring a wealth of changes to
Midgard and what we can do with Midgard. While a lot
of attention is paid to the complete rewrite of
Midgard which will come with version 2.0, Midgard 1.4
will bring a number of substantial improvements and
changes. Version 1.4 is entering its final beta
releases and should be released in the next few weeks.
For those who are new to Midgard or have been running
through the various beta versions of v1.4, the final
release will be a relief. For a number of us, who
still run sites on 1.2.x, the transition to 1.4 should
be reasonably straight forward but it is not quite a
plug and run proposition. Additions and changes to the
1.4 database structure make it necessary to make a
number of changes to the Midgard database before 1.4
can be run, those changes, not coincidentally, also
form the basis for a number of the new features in
1.4. They include, blob support, repligard, snippets,
events, some parameter changes and site groups.
Emile, programmer, sky diver, and all around good guy,
has worked a great deal with scripts which map current
data installations and make changes to the database
based on where your data is and where it needs to go.
It would be advisable to back up your data before you
send a script through your database but the process is
not terribly difficult. Emile did caution that the
Site Groups upgrade could cause problems if there are
changes or customization to the original admin files.
This step in the upgrade comes late in the process and
Emile seems confident that by the time the final
release of v1.4 comes these problems will be
addressed.
The database upgrade is the most problematic step in
the process, from the point of view of the application
the upgrade should be quite straight forward.
Basically substituting the various libraries and apps
will take care of the upgrade, providing the new
functionality provided by the new database structure.
A number of vendors have developed package management
strategies to ease application upgrades, in the past
there have been Red Hat RPMs released for Midgard as
well as packages for SuSe. A few open source
programs, best found on Freshmeat, also attempt to
translate different flavors of packages if those of
your choice are not available. (No warranties or
guarantees are implied by this reference) It is
prudent to back up a copy of your httpd.conf file,
found as part of the Apache installation, before
trying upgrade the application portions your Midgard.
Keep in mind, especially if you have an older Apache
installation that you may have to monkey with your new
httpd.conf to get all of the domains to run again.
There will be more specific information about the
upgrade as v1.4 nears the final candidate. The Midgard
list is also an excellent source of information and
quick answers to upgrade insecurity. At the same time
parts of the Midgard website have recently had the
ability to create enduser annotation added. The goal
of annotation is one of community history, as we each
have observations to add there will be a place where
the experiences of the community can be recorded and
retrieved.
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www.Midgard-Project.org site redesign
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Over the coming weeks Ron Parker and I will be working
on a redesign of the main Midgard-project website. Ron
has done a great deal to start systematically defining
project requirements for the new site's functionality.
The essential goal of the redesign is make access to
information easy and tailored to the various
constituents served by the site. Ron and Emile have
done a great deal to add functions to Midgard which
encourage community participation in the development
of information resources through the use of page
annotation. We also want to provide resources for
individuals and businesses, which use Midgard, to
showcase their projects and solutions. As always if
you have suggestions or comments we welcome all input,
we hope to add a webmaster e-mail address in the near
future.
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About Midgard
Midgard 1.4 is a content publishing tool for small and
medium sized sites. It is based on Apache, MySQL and
PHP. The application and its documentation are
licensed GPL, LGPL and GFDL. This licensing strategy
guarantees that developers, webmasters, ISPs, and
business managers are investing in a strategy where
they're free to share solutions and participate in the
application design.
-> http://www.midgard-project.org
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About MWS
The Midgard Weekly Summary is a bi-weekly newsletter
for the Midgard user and developer community,
as well as the extended web community.
If you would like to release it or publish it,
please contact Ken Pooley
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Previous issues of Midgard Weekly Summary can
be found archived at the Midgard web site.
-> http://www.midgard-project.org/topic/169.html
Midgard mailing list.
The Midgard mailing list is one of the most vital and
visible aspects of the Midgard Community. Questions
get answered, suggestions debated and work gets done.
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Places to see Midgard in Action:
http://www.midgard-project.org
http://www.hklc.com
http://www.5fthigh.com/
http://www.linuxde.org/
http://www.hec.nl/
http://www.stonejobs.com/
-More to come
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