It's nice to be able to announce, that following our numerous problems with GForge at the NOC over the last year the replacement solution that we promised is ready to go. Chris Hildebrandt, known as slam on the forums has been hard at work for a number of months producing a trac installation on which third party developers can host their PostNuke projects.

Some of you may not be familiar with Trac. Taken straight from the Trac website - "Trac is an enhanced Wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects... It provides an interface to Subversion, an integrated Wiki and convenient reporting facilities."

See trac.postnuke.com in action!

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.

We've been having problems with the NOC for some time now, and unfortunately we have yet to find a solution. While we've tried a number of different solutions to get the NOC working reliably as yet nothing has fixed the issues without introducing further problems.

There are a few more things we can try, and the Steering Committee are also investigating longer term solutions to ensure this doesn't happen in the future. In the meantime, please bear with us!

As you might have noticed, the NOC is up and down for some days now. As far as we know this is due to some Chinese search engine that bombs the NOC with bot requests. Although it's nice to see an economically rising nation so much interested in PostNuke it seems to be too much for our already pretty powerful server.

In a night long action Drak migrated the NOC from the old overstrained server to the new 3.500$ dual opteron, 4GB with 3 x 73GB SCSI drives using LSI's MegaRAID 320-1 controller...

On April 11, 2007, Ask.com, Google, Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo! together are announcing support of “autodiscovery” of Sitemaps. The new open-format autodiscovery allows webmasters to specify the location of their Sitemaps within their robots.txt file, eliminating the need to submit sitemaps to each search engine separately.

Nothing goes as planned, but a dedicated group of PN volunteer team members are setting it straight. As some of you may have noticed since the launch of the new postnuke.com structure, a number of performance issues have popped up. This is not always a bad thing because it gives us an opportunity to learn and share the knowledge with you.

The good news is we're getting a new server because the project is growing and as some know an upgrade has been needed for sometime. The current issues just confirmed what we already knew and had been avoiding.

So here are the details, Drak has kindly purchased and donated a shiny, brand new server to the project in addition to all the hosting services HostNuke currently provides. The server is an Opteron SCSI RAID with potential to upgrade in the future if needed, and vastly outclasses our current hardware. The server should be installed and configured in HostNuke's Colocation facility within the next 48 hours.

The PostNuke Software Foundation would like to provide a contribution towards the cost of this server, however its not a trivial amount, at more than $2,500 USD. So with this in mind we'd like to give the community an opportunity to give back to the project and are asking you to show your support by donating any amount to our server fund.

Thanks in advance.

I am proud to present community.postnuke.com, a new website to serve as the main community portal for the PostNuke Application Framework. This site is the culmination of months of hard work, and serves as a showcase for the full potential of PostNuke in developing a high traffic, high performance and interactive website.

Everyone on the pnTeam was involved with the PostNuke sites, either through providing feedback or the use of their modules on the website. Thanks especially go to everyone on the core redesign team, who each put in hours of work getting this site ready to go live:

• Franz Skaaning - creator of the initial theme versions in use both here and at www.postnuke.com.
• Franky Chestnut - coded the PostNuke SVN packages module, and the knowledgebase exclusively for community.postnuke.com.
• Frank Schummertz - for chagnes to pnForum readying it for use on community.postnuke.com and the forums.postnuke.com conversion.
• Wendell - for polishing the theme and fixing cross browser issues, as well as creating the Pagesetter database templates from scratch.
• Simon Birtwistle - overall design, content creation and editing, design and implementation of Pagesetter publications for databases and conversion scripts for news archive.

A case study of the site will be published shortly to indicate how all of this was achived. In the meantime, a short overview of the website structure is in the extended text.