Stuff I've been working on
I’ve updated the USB Foswiki to include foswiki 1.0.7, and updated the systray controller to be a little more slick 🙂
I’m still looking for feedback from users – Its a nice fast way to try out foswiki without needing to install anything – just unzip the archive into the root of a disk, and click start_foswiki.bat (on Windows XP the autorun should start that automatically for you)
Continuing our commitment to bug fixing and solving difficult security issues, we’re proud to announce that the Foswiki project has released 1.0.7.
This release contains:
see http://foswiki.org/Download/WebHome for more details, and to download the update.
I’m updating the Foswiki On a USB Stick at the moment, and will then work on Windows and Debian.
Ohloh shows a very comforting graph for me – over the year, we’ve been maintaining our momentum, and regularly have over 10 different contributors every month.
On Wednesday the 09.09.2009 we came together for the initial Founding of the Foswiki Association. After four hours of meeting it was created – articles explained and agreed, iInitial board elected as well as signatures approved with the notary. Afterwards we took a beer and had some nice chats. I guess we will manage to upload some pictures during the weekend
To quote Jens Hansen:
On Wednesday the 09.09.2009 we came together for the initial Founding of the Foswiki Association. After four hours of meeting it was created – articles explained and agreed, iInitial board elected as well as signatures approved with the notary. Afterwards we took a beer and had some nice chats. I guess we will manage to upload some pictures during the weekend.
So now we have a non-profit entity that will hold the domains, trademarks and intellecual property, thus securing our open source identity from ‘startups’ like T(m)wiki inc.
Jens and the guys have been working hard ‘in the background’ to get this legal entity up and running, and we’ll be holding a full general assembly as soon as we can organise that too.
Meanwhile, we’re also working on a 1.0.7 and 1.1 release of foswiki – busy times.
FoswikiOnAStick v0.1 (running foswiki 1.0.6)
I was asked on Friday night if I could make a demo foswiki USB system, and given that its high time we did one, I started to look into it. Initially I thought this would be a great oportunity to try out the HTTPEngine work Gilmar has been doing, but we’re not quite there yet. And so, I started a quick perusal of the existing WebServer on a Stick systems. Ideally, I want to use Strawberry perl, apache, and have the server and a browser start up automatically when the USB stick is inserted into the computer.
MicroApache was the first thing i looked at, as the contact pointed out DokuWikiOnAStick, but that server doesn’t seem to have source, nor is the upstream web site there (last release seems to be 2007, so too old for Strawberry perl too) Server2Go looks nice, but as its not really free in the debian sense, I’ll pass on that unless nothing else works. XAMPP – unzipped it, foswiki and did some minor configurations. unziped, removed everything except apache, added strawberry perl, and wrote a systray icon and menu system for you to control it with. TADA! FoswikiOnAStick v0.1v0.3 (running foswiki 1.0.6). please try it out.
before ejecting the usb key, you need to stop the webserver by running stop_foswiki.bat yes, thats all. Please report any issues or observations to me – SvenDowideit@fosiki.com
I have made no attempt (yet) to reduce the accesses to the disk – so it may use up all the blue smoke in your usbkey, cause your bits to turn green, or one of many other unforseen side effects which may or may not appear amusing if they happen to someone else. I’ve tested this on Windows7rc, Windows Vista, Windows2003server, and Windows XP – if it works for you, excellent :).
SourceForge is running their fourth Community Choice Awards – you could vote for ‘Best Project for the Enterprise’ or even ‘Best New Project’
Wow, it seems we’re almost winners 😉
I’ve just (finally) set up the auto unit test run, PerlCritic and release build for the Release01x00 branch, and fixed the trunk builder.
Foswiki trunk gets built every 6 hours, and Release01x00 every 12 (based on my Sydney TZ).
If the unit tests fail, and email will be sent to the foswiki-discuss mailing list – no news is good news. See the build output areas:
where you will find the output log files, the built tar.gz and zip files and each of the component packages that make up a release.
I created the FamFamFamContrib Icons package for T(m)wiki and Foswiki a year or three ago, and now have added a FugueIconsContrib package today – containing the fabulous iconset by Yusuke Kamiyamane.
Now we have 2 possible icon sets to replace the very odd and aging DocumentGraphics topic – the only thing holding us back is a mapping from the old %ICON{}% names to new.
I’ll dig up the work I did last year some time and see if we can finish it 🙂
I’ve been working on expanding the use of Foswiki Applications and in the process began to build (using TML) a much more usable user interface for configuring and managing your Foswiki.
So – to the picture show 🙂
Many of these features already do work in Foswiki 1.0.4 – by installing FoswikiApplications Contrib, but they are a work in progress – and getting more advanced every week.
Foswiki 1.0.4 has been released with more than 100 bug fixes and some small enhancements. Upgrading is highly recommended. If you did not upgrade from TWiki yet, now is a good time as Foswiki 1.0.4 fixes more around 300 bugs relative to TWiki 4.2.4.
Grab it now from : http://foswiki.org/Download/WebHome – the straight and upgrade archives, OSX installer and my Windows Installers are here.
My debian package repository now spans Foswiki 1.0.4 and 168 Foswiki extensions – its never been easier to install 🙂
see http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian
Over the 4 months of our project’s existence, 33 developers have been involved in making ~3000 commits – next up, the future !
I’ve set up a debian repository that you can help test the release package before it gets uploaded into debian proper.
To try it out, add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/ stable main contrib
deb-src http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/ stable main contrib
and then run
gpg --keyserver the.earth.li --recv-keys 379393E0AAEE96F6
apt-key add /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
OR (if theearth.li doesn’t work for you)
wget http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/FoswikiReleaseGpgKey.asc
apt-key add FoswikiReleaseGpgKey.asc
apt-get update
apt-get install apache2 foswiki
This repository contains about 281 (Apr2011) foswiki-extensions – auto updated nightly direct from foswiki.org. The packages have as many dependencies as I was able to coerce my build scripts to work out – but there is more work needed.