From: (obinary magnolia) Received: from [213.173.174.10] (HELO [10.0.0.107]) by mail.obinary.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 4937002 for magnolia-news@obinary.com; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:25:38 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <6948A7BF-ED45-11D8-BB83-000A95CFE2A4@obinary.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed To: magnolia-news@obinary.com Subject: Announcement: Magnolia Status Quo Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:25:38 +0200 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D M A G N O L I A Content Management System Announcement August 13th, 2004 http://www.magnolia.info/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Dear members of the Magnolia mailing list, there have been many changes on http://www.magnolia.info since we last sent out an announcement, so this one is packed with excitement! Let me take a moment to explain where we are at and where we are going. 1. Magnolia International 2. New Issue tracker 3. Restructered www.magnolia.info 4. wiki.magnolia.info 5. Magnolia at OSCOM conference 6. Magnolia 2.0 technology preview ----------------------------------------------- 1. Magnolia International ----------------------------------------------- We have founded Magnolia International to take over maintenance of the community site. The following responsibilities for Magnolia International have been defined: * build the Magnolia community * market the Magnolia brand * build, market and manage Magnolia certification programs * manage commercial activities regarding Magnolia * manage=A0legal aspects regarding the Magnolia CMS This is one of the steps we have undertaken to open up Magnolia for your contributions (see http://magnolia.info/en/community/contribute.html for how you can contribute to Magnolia). Another goal is to foster Magnolia partnerships. The partnership concept is in its early stages at the moment, but please visit http://magnolia.info/en/international/partner.html to see what its all about. ----------------------------------------------- 2. New Issue tracker ----------------------------------------------- We have received an open source license from Jira and installed this excellent issue tracker. We welcome your feedback, please visit http://magnolia.info/en/community/developer/feedback.html for details. You can find the issue tracker at http://jira.magnolia.info/ The previous issue tracker at sourceforge is being discontinued. ----------------------------------------------- 3. Restructered www.magnolia.info ----------------------------------------------- We have moved www.magnolia.info away from the obinary home page, updated the templates with a better menu and restructured the content. Please pay a visit to http://www.magnolia.info for latest changes and additions. ----------------------------------------------- 4. wiki.magnolia.info ----------------------------------------------- Ralf Hirning has been so kind and started a wiki, which has been greeted with enthusiasm from the developer community. He has happily agreed to move the wiki to magnolia.info so that Magnolia information is available under one roof. The wiki is a great place for you to share and comment code examples, installation instruction or anything else regarding Magnolia. Share generously at http://wiki.magnolia.info ----------------------------------------------- 5. Magnolia at OSCOM conference ----------------------------------------------- We are proud to present Magnolia at this year's "Fourth International Open Source Content Management Conference with Apache Track" organized by OSCOM, the international association for Open Source CMS. Conference dates: ETH Z=FCrich,Switzerland Wednesday, September 29th - Friday, October 1st, 2004 See http://www.oscom.org/events/oscom4/program for program details. (Thursday afternoon: JSR-170 and Magnolia) ----------------------------------------------- 6. Magnolia 2.0 technology preview ----------------------------------------------- We are proud to announce the immediate availability of the Magnolia 2.0 technology preview. This release is meant as a glimpse into what is coming. Here is a list of new and improved features available in the technology preview: ** New Feature * [MAGNOLIA-15] - Dynamic repository loader * [MAGNOLIA-16] - Pluggable Content Exchange * [MAGNOLIA-17] - SimpleExchange * [MAGNOLIA-19] - Single application server deployment option * [MAGNOLIA-20] - Module interface/loader * [MAGNOLIA-24] - New Dialog Controls * [MAGNOLIA-26] - Richtext Editor (Kupu 1.0) ** Improvement * [MAGNOLIA-14] - Implementing new JCR specs * [MAGNOLIA-18] - Better Logging * [MAGNOLIA-21] - Improved Dialog-GUI * [MAGNOLIA-22] - Improved Dialog-Architecture * [MAGNOLIA-23] - Improved taglibs * [MAGNOLIA-51] - New package structure This is NOT an end user release. We recommend that you do not download this release unless you are a developer who needs to know where Magnolia is heading and have time to test and provide feedback. Please use the issue tracker at http://jira.magnolia.info See http://www.magnolia.info/en/community/developer/beta.html for details on this release. Thank you very much for using Magnolia Boris Kraft the Magnolia Development Team Magnolia International =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=