WOOHOO!! Got MY weekend locked up now! Thanks and congratulations to everyone involved in making this happen. It's been a long time coming and a lot of people worked awfully hard on it. Can't wait to upgrade and get it all running. Woohoo, times two! :) On Jun 16, 2004, at 10:38 PM, janra wrote: > Scoop 1.0 is finally available! > > Whether you've been tracking CVS or have stuck with 0.9, there is news > for you. > > *Changes to CVS* > > Way back at the last developer meeting, we decided that once 1.0 was > released, we'd split the CVS tree into two branches, STABLE and > CURRENT. > > STABLE will be basically what you've been checking out from CVS if > you've been tracking it before now; namely, changes are tested and work > to the best of our knowledge, although there is always an element of > risk. > > CURRENT will be a place for us to work on major new features that may > break backwards-compatibility and may not work properly at any given > moment. Changes will still be tested, but not necessarily as thoroughly > as they will in STABLE. We don't recommend using CURRENT to run a live > site. > > To check out the 1.0 release: > cvs co -r scoop-1_0-RELEASE scoop > > Captain_Tenille will post more information about the changes to CVS and > how to use the different branches, since it was his idea. > > *Major features and bugfixes since 0.9* > > If you've been tracking CVS, you've seen these features appear over > time. If you're still running 0.9 or a version even older than that, > now's a good time to upgrade... > > * Archiving > * File uploads > * "Safe mode" > * More flexible comment rating system > * Macros > * Admin tools search > * New admin documentation > * Ads and subscriptions work out of the box now > > For descriptions and a more complete list, see the CHANGES file. > > *Scoop's future* > > Quite a few new features have been proposed and started for future > versions of Scoop, including mod_perl2/apache2 support, postgreSQL > support (for real this time, we actually have some code submitted, not > just a promise), more flexible user prefererences, wiki-style > collaboration and versioning on Scoop stories, and much more. > > The Scoop Bug Muncher <http://bugz.mostly-harmless.ca/> has proven > helpful for tracking bugs, patches, and the "1.0 to-do list" in the > months it's been running, so I think we'll keep it. Thanks to > MostlyHarmless for setting it up. > > Hopefully we will have releases a little more frequently than every > year > or so from now on, for those who don't like running the CVS version. > -- > -janra | http://www.write-on.indy/ > (OpenNIC) > Who needs to be big and burly when | http://www.write-on.org/ (ICANN) > you can just apply physics? | Discuss the art and craft of > writing > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer > Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA > REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code > NWMGYKND > _______________________________________________ > Scoop-dev mailing list > Scoop-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scoop-dev > -- Steve Linberg, Chief Goblin Silicon Goblin Technologies http://silicongoblin.com Be kind. Remember, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.