Greetings! We saved up lots of news for this issue. There are tales of Midgardians on motorcycles and plans for Midgard in California. There are notes of developers interest as well. Torben has been hard at work on MidCOM and has starting the ball rolling for 1.4.4. The CVS server is also on the move and looking for suggestions for more effective use. I will be on vacation for the next few weeks but will have access to e-mail, don�t hesitate to drop me a note if you have something to include in the next MWS.
Contents: Editor's Note 1.4.3 is released, suggestions for 1.4.4 roadmap solicited. Midgardians in Europe Midgard Bugtracker Usage Guide Midgard CVS Move MWS Article: MidCOM 0.2.0 public Beta Version Midgard at OSCOM, September 25-27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.4.3 is released, suggestions for 1.4.4 roadmap solicited. ------------------------------------ Midgard 1.4.3 was released June 14th 2002 and is available for download on the Midgard Website. 1.4.3 is comprised mostly of bug fixes and adaptations for external distro and library issues. Information on the changes can be found at: http://www.midgard-project.org/news/release%2D1%2E4%2E3.html It is time to start putting together a road map for 1.4.4; suggestions and bugs should be sent to the Midgard lists for discussion and adoption. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Midgardians in Europe. ------------------------------------ Henri Bergius is on tour by motorcycle and looking for Midgardians as he travels through Europe. According to the online travel log he has had beers with Piotras & Anjushka and has found a high percentage of the Metal bars in the Czech region. There are few too many crashes for my taste but everyone seems ok. Pictures and the travel-log are available at: http://reissut.nemein.net/journal/ Henri is checking his e-mail so if you want to see if he is coming your way you can e-mail him or post to the list and someone may know where and when they plan to travel over the next weeks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MWS Article: Midgard Bugtracker Usage Guide ------------------------------------ It has been awhile since we communicated procedures for using the Midgard Bugtracker system. By way of reminder for bug reporters: Each new bug that comes in is classified as "new". As long as the bug is in this state, the bug report hasn't been seen or evaluated. When the report is reviewed it will usually either set it to "Acknowledged" which roughly means, that this might be possible and that we will look into it further. A bug can also be set to "Feedback" if there are questions open about it. When it is clear that the report is really a bug it will advance to "Confirmed" status which opens it up for developers ("Assigned") for fixing ("Resolved"). In consequence this means that developers should focus on bugs that are already confirmed first. Only if there is nothing, look over acknowledged or feedback bugs. When you decide to take over a bug, assign it to you so that it gets out of the confirmed list and we keep an overview who is working on what. When you resolve a bug please document it through bugnotes, so that we keep some history. If anybody is missing developer access rights in the bugtracker, please drop Torben an e-mail. One last thing for everybody: Though the bugs get mailed to midgard-dev, please write any comment as a bugnote in the bugtracker and not as a reply email. This greatly increases the transparency and history of a given bug because all information about it is kept in one place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Midgard CVS Move ------------------------------------ After some debate it has been decided to accept the generous offer to host cvs.midgard-project.org on 'Nathan', a machine administered by Torben Nehmer. Torben will take up most of the migration of the cvs, and will communicate any changes needed from the developers. For now we should assume that the CVS instructions on the site can remain unchanged, but this would be a good opportunity to discuss whether there should be structural changes to the CVS or the CVS procedures. Torben was keen to acknowledge Aurora's contributions to Midgard over the years: "I would like to say a loud and warm thank you to our previous cvs host Aurora. Aurora has been sponsoring the hardware and bandwidth for the midgard cvs since late 2000. Basically I offered Nathan for a CVS Replacement, because Aurora's Server had often Problem's with its connections. Also they don't have the time for a full administration for it, partly, because most of the Midgard Developers don't work at Aurora anymore which makes administration a bit of a hassle. Nathan is more closely available to the team, since I am willing to offer privileged CVS Access to users that want to have it." If you have input or thoughts on how the CVS strategy can be refined e-mail them to the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MWS Article: MidCOM 0.2.0 public Beta Version ------------------------------------ After a development phase of roughly four weeks, the next milestone in the development of MidCOM [1] has been reached. Version 0.2.0, the first public beta, is now available for download [2]. Following the roadmap, we have completed up to Stage four. MidCOM now provides an extensive working framework for application development with Midgard. MidCOM currently features the Advanced Style Engine, the Navigation Access Point System and the possibility for dynamically loaded components. [1] http://www.nathan-syntronics.de/midgard/docs/midcom.html [2] http://users.nehmer.net/~classic/MidCOM-0.2.0.tar.gz The Advanced Style Engine is a powered up replacement for Midgard's regular style processing. The basic idea is that you can assign a style to each instance of a component. This allows you to build very modular styles even in complex websites avoiding the problem of one style having close to one hundred Style elements in it. Instead you create a separate style for every component you need and assign it to the respective instances of the component. A completely different problem is solved through the Navigation Access Point (NAP) System. NAP is a specification which allows components to abstractly define what of them should go into the Navigation tree (read "Sitemap") and what not. The NAP System interface provides you access to this abstract tree and completely encapsulates the gory details of pulling this information out of the topic tree. While the first alpha version could only display one component per Request, this is not sufficient most of the time. Often, especially on Homepages, you need a way of collecting different information together. Dynamically loadable components come into play here. They allow you to "put together" your website using simple commands where you reference to other components via a regular URL. Similar to Lego you only need to plug the whole thing together and let the framework worry about the details. During the next weeks we will take this framework into active usage on one customer website. The next milestone in our MidCOM development will be the automatic Administration Site builder. Said Torben: "I would be happy if as much people as possible could test it so that I can get out all of the more important bugs. I will try to put up an bugtracker project for MidCOM on Midgard's official Bugtracker as soon as possible." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Midgard at OSCOM, September 25-27 ------------------------------------ The 2nd annual OSCOM, Open Source Content Management, conference has been scheduled for Wednesday, 25 September to Friday, 27 September 2002 in Berkeley, California, USA. The three-day conference will feature a keynote from Ted Nelson of Xanadu fame as well as presentations by representatives from WebDAV, Zope, SMIL/Bitflux, PostNuke, Wynona and others. Midgard/Nemein's own Henri Bergius will be giving an overview of Midgard on Wednesday, September 25 and there will be a Midgard workshop on Friday, September 27. September is usually a good time to visit the San Francisco bay area, the weather before the fall rains being dry and cool. I am trying to make arrangements to be there and would encourage all Midgardians to do the same. For more information the OSCOM website is at: http://www.oscom.org The conference information can be found at: http://www.oscom.org/conferences/sanfrancisco2002/program.html ============================ About Midgard Midgard is a freely-available solution for managing content on Web, Extranet and Intranet services. It is also a toolkit for building dynamic applications to power eBusiness and Information Management processes. 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