sf-active

SF-ACTIVE v0.9.4 RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT September 11, 2004 - sf-active v0.9.4 is released in memory of those who lost lives, families or freedom during the US-supported Pinochet military coup in Chile which began on September 11, 1973. OVERVIEW ... [More] In keeping with our plan to release every two months, there is a new tagged release of sf-active. A brief overview of changes to the code: * Admin Control of Languages Site administrators can now select which languages are available through the Site Admin pages. * Many, Many Bugfixes A lot of minor bugfixes are included in this release. For a full list, please see the CHANGELOG file. * Taming Webcast Table Project We have begun to tame the database table which holds all articles and comments. This work will be fully completed in the next release but will greatly improve site speed and performance. * Static Mini-Calendar You can now cache and include a list of upcoming events on any page of the website. * Major Documentation Upgrades A lot of work has been completed on creating thorough docs. * SF-Active FAQ Edwin from the Philippines has started a multi-lingual, collaborative sf-active FAQ at: http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/ActiveSfFaq * GPL License Added * A complete changelog can be found at: http://sfa.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/54.php * A list of all added/changed files since 0.9.2 release: http://sfa.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/53.php DOWNLOADING For instructions on getting this release via tarball or cvs: http://sfa.indymedia.org/download/ DB NOTES Patching your db for 0.9.4 depends on whether or not you've already applied the install/patch_email_validation.sql from 0.9.2 If you aren't sure, do 'desc webcast' and look for a validation column. If there is a validation column or you know you've applied the install/patch_email_validation.sql patch, first you must apply install/patch_094_092_validation_removed_from_webcast.sql Then, apply the following required patches for 0.9.4: install/patch_094_new_validation_table.sql install/patch_094_calendar.sql install/patch_094_calendar_artmime.sql install/patch_094_language_event.sql install/patch_094_language_feature.sql install/patch_094_language_table.sql install/patch_094_language_webcast.sql install/patch_094_last_login.sql install/patch_drop_date_entered.sql SUPPORT / UPGRADING To contact Indymedia sf-active sysadmins, please email: [email protected] For general support questions, please email: [email protected] For further information and links to all sf-active stuff, go to: http://sfactive.indymedia.org/ As always, feel free to drop by irc.indymedia.org in channels #sf-active or #sfkids to talk with sf-active users, admins, and developers. See http://irc.indymedia.org/ for more information. OUTLOOK FOR NEXT RELEASE The next sf-active version should be a major release with a couple large feature additions and continued improvement of the code, which include: * Re-working articles, attachments, comments and webcast table: we plan to separate comments and articles into two new tables and re-design the schema for both. This is the primary bottleneck on all sf-active sites and this schema/code change should significantly reduce the overhead on all sf-active sites. * Spec'ing out and developing a producer/cache type engine (modeled after mir) to allow for all-static sites. * Addition of new San Francisco Indymedia Admin: SF-IMC has been working on a parallel admin interface for editing center columns (based on local, non-tech collective decisions) and this will be in the next release as an optional replacement for the existing admin process. * Continued major overhauls to software SQL, adherence to OOP, adherence with phpdoc for API Documentation. [Less]

SF-ACTIVE v0.9.2 RELEASED The new release of sf-active v0.9.2 is now available! There have been quite some changes and bugfixes since the 0.9 release. The general plan now is to do releases each 2 months and as quickly as possible upgrade all ... [More] indymedia sites towards it. http://sfactive.indymedia.org/ http://codecoop.org/projects/sf-active/ o NEW CVS SERVER AND BUGTRACKER We have moved the cvs-server and bugtracker to http://codecoop.org/. codecoop is a Gforce install maintained by some mir-coders and allready quite some indymedia projects use it for their cvs server. Take a look at http://codecoop.org and http://codecoop.org/projects/sf-active/ o LICENSE sf-active is now released under the GNU GPL. o IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING UPGRADES All sf-active sites should immediately upgrade to the latest sf-active. By doing this, your site will be able to receive immediate upgrades when new sf-active versions are released. If your site is hosted on one of the shared indymedia servers, you should contact [email protected] to find out more details about the upgrade process. (If in the doubt, the shared indymedia servers are Stray, Ahimsa, Staughton and Dissent) o DOCUMENTATION Documentation is available on the web, updated nightly from CVS. Please go to http://sfa.indymedia.org/docs/ to view the latest sf-active docs. We'll try to get the documentation a lot better for the next release o SUPPORT QUESTIONS All support questions should be sent to [email protected], or browse the list archives at: http://lists.indymedia.org/imc-sf-active http://lists.indymedia.org/imc-sfa-castellano o IRC SUPPORT As always, we are available in indymedia irc in #sfkids or #sf-active. For webbased irc access, go to http://chat.indymedia.org/ o REPORTING BUGS If you have specific bugs or feature requests, please use the bug tracking system at http://codecoop.org/tracker/?group_id=28 -- it is easy to use and allows us to keep track of requests. o CHANGES IN THE NEW VERSION There's a changelog online at: http://sfa.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/37.php (en) http://sfa.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/38.php (es) o RELEASE CREDIT Many people from all over the world have helped keep sf-active up-to-date and running many indymedia sites ... the sf-active development & translation group has included bart (be), occam (de), mtoups (us), nikete (ar), gaba (uy), blicero (it), libertino (uy), espe (sf), xmux (ar), mark (sf), zapata (double agent), hep (sf), noah (sf), guido (cl), johnk (la), gek (sf), duende (be), turlututu (be), ivana (hr), albert(ad), st3 (it), edwin (ph), drazen (sr), quinten (us), ... [Less]

SF-ACTIVE v0.9 RELEASED The new release of sf-active v0.9 is now available! There have been a lot of changes during this long development cycle since v0.5 (the last public release), but we are now at a stable and mature point. The general plan is ... [More] to have regular releases now which can be easily and quickly deployed to many indymedia sites. http://sfactive.indymedia.org/ * NEW SF-ACTIVE WEBSITE We have relocated the official sf-active website with a new design and more consistent translation. This website should be your starting point for all sf-active inquiries. You can go to: http://sfactive.indymedia.org/ or http://sfa.indymedia.org/ * IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING UPGRADES All sf-active sites should immediately upgrade to the latest sf-active. By doing this, your site will be able to receive immediate upgrades when new sf-active versions are released. To find out which version you are currently running, go to: http://yourname.indymedia.org/version.php ... if the version shown is less than 0.9 or you get a "file not found" error, you need to be upgraded! Please contact [email protected] to schedule an upgrade for your site. Any sites on staughton or ahimsa servers are close to being fully upgraded. Sites on linefeed servers in San Francisco are now scheduled to be upgraded to the latest sf-active version. Please get in touch with your system administrator to find out more details for your specific indymedia. * DOCUMENTATION Documentation is available on the web, updated nightly from CVS. Please go to http://sfa.indymedia.org/docs/ to view the latest sf-active docs. * SUPPORT QUESTIONS All support questions should be sent to [email protected], or browse the list archives at: http://lists.indymedia.org/imc-sf-active * IRC SUPPORT As always, we are available in indymedia irc in #sfkids or #sf-active. For java irc access, go to http://sf.indymedia.org/irc/ * REPORTING BUGS If you have specific bugs or feature requests, please use the bug tracking system at http://bugs.sfimc.net/ -- it is easy to use and allows us to keep track of requests. * CHANGES IN THIS RELEASE For all a complete list, see the CHANGES file from cvs. * RELEASE CREDIT Many people from all over the world have helped keep sf-active up-to-date and running many indymedia sites ... the sf-active development group has included bart (be), occam (de), mtoups (us), nikete (ar), gaba (uy), blicero (it), libertino (uy), espe (sf), xmux (ar), mark (sf), zapata (double agent), hep (sf), noah (sf), guido (cl), johnk (la), gek (sf) [Less]