v2.1 information

[Paul Mcilwaine]

WB News v2.1 will be released early in the new year and will contain some features which were held back in v2.0.x, particularly plugins. The plugin system will work somewhat similar to that of WordPress and the first plugin will be Akismet, im sure most users of v2.0 have noticed increase SPAM and currently its not being picked up using the standard configuration spam filter.

The other major change is that some of the functionality added with be built for PHP 5, I understand that many are still with hosts that are on PHP 4 however this is the way forward.

Of course bug fixes will still happen to v2.x for the time being.

[corneliusw]

Look forward to release and eventually SEF urls! because i don't know how to do that kind of stuff lol.

[JF08]

Eagerly awaiting the release of 2.1.0!!!!!

[Time42]

As am I!

[Paul Mcilwaine]

Its been a busier weekend than expected however the release will be out latest this wednesday.

[Paul Mcilwaine]

I haven't yet made the release public yet mainly due to having very little time to merge on to HEAD and archive it all.

For those who wish to get the 2.1.0 source you can do so via CVS

Code:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@wbnews.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wbnews export -r v2-1-0 -d wbnews .

[JF08]

Paul, when will the official release be?  I would rather not attempt that technique to get the SVN.

[Paul Mcilwaine]

Jan 19 12am UTC/GMT -5 hours.

[JF08]

Thank you for everything, Paul.  I just downloaded the 2.1.0 and will try to get into it soon.

[Yakiv]

I haven't yet made the release public yet mainly due to having very little time to merge on to HEAD and archive it all.

For those who wish to get the 2.1.0 source you can do so via CVS

Code:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@wbnews.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wbnews export -r v2-1-0 -d wbnews .

Can you please give the settings for getting the 2.3.0 alpha?  I was able to install TortoiseCVS on my Vista.  I just needed to create a folder C:\cvs\wbnews , from which to use to get the right-click menu, to get it to work, just in case anyone out there in the WWW is wondering how to do it.

If you could give me the settings, in the following manner (rather than in the string), it would be most helpful to me, to get it to work:

Code:

Protocol:
Protocol parameters:
Server:
Port:
Repository folder:
User name:
Module:

...I am using the following, but it isn't working for me:

Code:

Protocol: Password server (:pserver:)
Protocol parameters: export -z3 -r v2-3-0_Alpha -d
Server: wbnews.cvs.sourceforge.net
Port: 22
Repository folder: /cvsroot/wbnews
User name: anonymous
Module: wbnews

...By the way, these are on the Module tab of the Checkout Module.

It generates the following in the CVSROOT field:

Code:

:pserver;export -z3 -r v2-3-0_Alpha -d:anonymous@wbnews.cvs.sourceforge.net:22/cvsroot/wbnews

What I do see is a bunch of stuff loading in the view pane.  I see wbnews listed there, with a bunch of other sourceforge stuff.  But, I don't know how to proceed from there and I am pretty certain that I do not have the settings right.

On the options tab, I do have the Purpose of checkout set to Export.  And "Use module name and tag/branch/revision as folder name" is chosen.  If these or other settings need to be changed, please advise.

I know you are busy, Paul, but I hope you can get to me on this one, ASAP.  Thanks!

And I do hope that you can release v2.3.0 soon!  It has some features - already discussed with you here on the forums - that I really-really need!!!

[Yakiv]

Hello?? 

[Paul Mcilwaine]

Apologies about my late reply. I normally do not use windows so not familiar with Tourtise CVS

However I recommend this link which has an explanation on how to do it which I can confirm works http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/wiki/HowTo:Checkout_CVS

[Yakiv]

Okay. This helped a little. ...I found a nice tutorial here:

http://drupal.org/node/22293

I didn't realize that I could update the list to chose the revision.  This was part of the real difficulty I was having with it.

...I saw your patch for another CMS, in their trac; I guess you are busy with that CMS now, instead of WB News.  It would be great if you would at least finish up WB News 2.3.0, with the features already discussed.

[Paul Mcilwaine]

.I saw your patch for another CMS, in their trac; I guess you are busy with that CMS now, instead of WB News.  It would be great if you would at least finish up WB News 2.3.0, with the features already discussed.

A part from the company I work for using this CMS I have no other involvement with it. Besides myself being quite busy due to work the other reason for the delay in the v2.3.0 release is the fact I am considering the Roadmap which I feel should change significantly and its working out how to best make these changes gradual so its not a huge change again for users. The changes will be improve the system immensely I believe.

I still do not have a release date for 2.3.x however I am hoping it will be within the next month.

[Yakiv]

This is encouraging. Thanks, Paul!