Mapping the Midgard community
Midgard 1.7, the first release sporting Midgard2 features like MgdSchema and Query Builder was released today. To celebrate this, I made a new design for the website, following the “Prepare for the New Day” slogan:
The photo in the bottom right corner is from our climb to Drakensberg with the Ungana-Afrika people.
While posting the layout to the site, I was reminded about the xplanet maps the GNOME and Debian communities have. After thinking about this for a moment, I decided it would be easy to generate the same information from the Midgard Who’s Who.
Here’s a small example, with also bigger ones available:
If you’re interested in doing something similar, I’ve posted a quick tutorial.
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Midgard 1.6: Power, Flexibility, Out of the box
After much hard work by Piotras and the rest of the Midgard team, Midgard 1.6 is now the stable release of the Midgard CMS. This is very cool since it brings lots of new features like MultiLang and datagard available for the Midgard population. The release announcement says about the new data package: The revised Midgard-data package provides an out-of-the-box...
Undeletion in Midgard
A trash can feature for Midgard was discussed originally in the 2006 Komorniki Midgard developer meeting, and the APIs for it made their way into the 1.8.0 release. Yesterday I added trash can browsing and undeletion support into Asgard, the new administrative interface.