This year the German PostNuke association is arranging a meeting which happens in late summer as usual. After Frank Schummertz (landseer) has already organized all four pnMeetings, I have the honour of scheduling the first meeting under the new name. Both users and developers alike are openly invited to become acquainted with each other and exchange experiences about their past and future work with our favourite framework.
One last push to PostNuke .8
The development team have scheduled one more bug fix weekend to eliminate the final bugs in the bug tracker before we release .8 final. The date is this weekend - the 29th and 30th of March. A Skype chat will be created, and developers and testers alike are invited and encouraged to participate in the weekend.
Bug fix weekends create a collaborative environment in which both those who can code, and those who are simply users of PostNuke work together to find, fix and test for bugs. The last weekends have fixed over a hundred bugs, both large and small between them. A similar effort this week will lead to the final release of PostNuke .8.
So, we invite you to join us. Further articles detailing precisely how to take part will be published over the weekend, however in the meantime please consider joining the international PostNuke chat - contact Steffen via private message for further details
The PostNuke Steering Committee is pleased to announce the project has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code (SoC) this year. This represents a significant step forward for the project in an exciting year at PostNuke.We intend to use the SoC to push the project's development forward following the final release of .8 and the unveiling of our new identity. There are a number of proposed projects on our ideas page that we hope will interest and excite students. This is an excellent opportunity for the team to get some of the large projects we have planned for future versions implemented quickly.
In preparation for the rebranding of PostNuke under the system's new name, the Steering Committee are looking to get in contact with all international community webmasters. The PostNuke Software Foundation has purchased the domains for all major international communities, and are we are looking to assign these domains to well established community support websites.If you currently run an international support website, we ask that you contact the Steering Committee (use the contact form
The PostNuke Software Foundation will retain ownership of all international domains, and will point the nameserver records to the external servers of community webmasters. There are conditions which must be adhered to when running a community website under the new branding, and applicants will be informed of these via email.
Everything began with pnUpper which asserted it's claim to centralize any functionality for file uploads. Particularly of security reasons everything being upload-related should be treated at one single place in the system. With the successor MediaAttach a technically matured module is available in the meantime, the focus changed gradually on file management and integration. Now the first release candidate for the initial version has been released based on technologies in .8 completely.
This is the first development update issue in 2008, after almost a year absence. In this update, I will show what has been going on in the development of PostNuke since the RC3 release here, and plan to pick up the updates again. Happy reading!
In this issue:
In the website http://phobos.xtec.cat/intradv you can test PostNuke 0.8 and all the modules available in it. The registered users can change in any moment their group or role and test all functionalities almost as administrators.
Are you tired of remembering all those passwords for your different websites? Or would you like to be able to sign a weblog comment securely - without others being able to spoof it? Maybe you should get yourself a shining new online identity using OpenID.
PN 0.8 is full of good surprises, especially in the case of the URL rewriting which has been entirely reworked. Thus PostNuke offers several methods in order to help us to make urls more attractives.
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