[IMC-Docs] New Twiki release upcoming, lack of volunteers in imc-docs

Mon Oct 29 14:32:35 PDT 2007

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And another FYI...
...for those of us not subscribed to the announcement mailing list.

Maybe this new (beta and upcoming stable) release can help for
motivating us to finally upgrade our twiki installation at
http://docs.indymedia.org/.

Personally, I cannot commit to taking part in this along the next couple
of weeks (at least) as I will spend a lot more time at working along the
next couple of months, much differently to how it used to be for the
past years. I hope to still get the regular maintenance done but I may
not be able to do much more. And as that's the same for most everyone
left in this working group (which seems to be quite few anyway), I can
only hope that new people will join it at some point or old ones will be
able to return. This is also why I'm CC'ing this to imc-tech.

Alster

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- ---+ In this newsletter

1. TWiki 4.2.0 beta versions released
2. TWiki installation benefits from installer
3. Expiry and ETags improve your TWiki performance
4. Case Study: KQED's QUEST Program Managed by TWiki
5. "Two TWiki Applications under my belt, Going for the Third"
6. Status of 4.2.0 from the release manager
7. TWiki Stand Alone Project: Do You Want Flexibility?

- ---+ 1. TWiki 4.2.0 beta versions released

We have begun the count down to a new TWiki Release. As a first, a
release branch has been forked off the MAIN development branch. For
people wanting to help test the releases, there are nightly builds
uploaded to nightly build area. Also, two beta versions have been
released and can be downloaded from TWiki.org. To make 4.2 a quality
release a lot of testing is needed. Please download the latest beta, and
report any bugs you notice, even ones you can't quite reproduce, to
TWiki bugs system and mark as Urgent.

http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2007-10-02-twiki-420-beta-2-released-including-installers-for-windows-and-mac-osx
http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2007-09-20-codevtwikirelease04x02-branched-and-beta-1-released

- ---+ 2. TWiki installation benefits from installer

TWiki 4.2 will be a much easier Wiki to install - with fully integrated
native installers that will update your Computer with perl, apache and
other tools needed to run TWiki. Installers are available for windows,
MacOS and a few flavours of linux. Over the last month, there have been
approximatly 2,000 downloads of the 4.2 beta installers, with the
strongest showing from the 2 Windows installers. There seems to also
have been a matching increase in bug reports from newer users.

http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2007-09-22-twiki-42-beta-now-has-a-windows-installer
http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2007-10-02-twiki-420-beta-2-released-including-installers-for-windows-and-mac-osx

- ---+ 3. Expiry and ETags improve your TWiki performance

TWiki uses a lot of static files. You can reduce the load on your apache
server, and increase the aparent speed of your user's experience, by
setting the Expires HTTP header for static files to 'quite large'. This
change was implemented on the TWiki.org web server, resulting in a much
more consistent speed in the server, and noticably reducing the impact
of those of us opening the days topics from WebChanges in tabs.

http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2007-09-27-set-expiry-and-etags-to-improve-your-twiki-performance

- ---+ 4. Case Study: KQED's QUEST Program Managed by TWiki

Pether Thoeny went to a presentation by KQED, the Public Radio/TV for
Northern California, on how they use TWiki in a structured way to manage
the program. "QUEST is a TV, radio, web, and education series by KQED
that explores science, environment and nature in Northern California."
The program runs for 3 years and will produce 60 TV features and 48
radio features per year, as well as daily blogs and photo albums on
Flickr. Craig Rosa, the interactive producer of QUEST, and Lauren
Sommer, the wiki champion first gave an overview of QUEST, and then
explained how their structured wiki approach solved their needs.

http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2007-10-05-case-study-kqed

- ---+ 5. "Two TWiki Applications under my belt, Going for the Third"

Neil is a systems administrator and programmer at a non for profit
working closely with civilian agencies in the US. The organization as a
whole is interested in Wikis. Neil has been able to successfully
champion wikis (specifically TWiki) within his division and among the
people he works with. The first successful TWiki deployment was a large
survey application for a government agency.

http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2007-10-12-two-twiki-applications-under-my-belt-going-for-the-third

- ---+ 6. Status of 4.2.0 from the release manager

Kenneth Lavrsen is release manager for TWiki 4.2.0, the next TWiki
release that is packed with exciting new features and improvements of
existing features. Together with Sven Dowideit, he is responsible for
getting 4.2.0 ready to release. But without your help, his task becomes
impossible! Read about how you can help in this article.

http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2007-10-13-status-of-420-from-the-release-manager

- ---+ 7. TWiki Stand Alone Project: Do You Want Flexibility?

Gilmar Santos Jr., frustrated with the overhead and other problems
common webservers and CGI frameworks such as Apache and SpeedyCGI incur
on a TWiki site, started the TWiki stand-alone project. His work has
progressed steadily in the past months, culminating in a first release
in recent days. His work started from the MAIN branch right before TWiki
4.2.0 branched, and is thus reasonably close to the upcoming new release
of TWiki.

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2007-10-26-twiki-stand-alone-project

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