The KForge Project

KForge v0.17 is now officially out! This release includes:

• New Git plugin
• New Joomla plugin
• New project ‘recent changes’ feed aggregation
• Support for using Mercurial services with Trac services
• Support for using Git services with Trac services
• Indication of when new project service configuration has loaded
• Improved installer and install guide
• Improved support for virtual KForge environments
• Improved special character support
• Improved compatibility with dependencies (django<=1.1, sqlobject<=0.12.0)
• Improved performance, especially of access controller
• Improved Web form validation error handling
• Improved command line error handling
• Improved configuration file
• Improved Trac service creation and update steps
• Improved cookie control

Download it from the python package index here:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/kforge/0.17

KFORGE CLUB: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

An invitation to join KForge Club.

JOIN HERE

You can join KForge Club today!

Joining KForge Club is free of charge. KForge Club members are simply involved in a safe, transparent, and regular process of sharing common costs. Joining implies no commitment whatsoever (you can say ‘No’ later).

Members are invited to submit new proposals, and to comment on proposals submitted by others. A prospectus of such proposals is published, and shares of the costs are discussed with those showing interest. A call for agreement is made. Proposals that achieve consensus are actioned, and reported upon at regular intervals.

BACKGROUND

KForge is a stable, open-source, enterprise application for project hosting. KForge provisions project services on-demand, and controls access with a robust, role-based, single sign-on access controller. Project services include:

• Version control systems (e.g. Git, Mercurial, Subversion)
• Project framework with mechanisms to plan and track work (e.g. Trac)
• Wikis and mailing lists (e.g. MoinMoin, Mailman)
• Content management systems and blogs (e.g. Joomla, Wordpress)

KForge also provides a complete web interface for administration of project members and services, as well as a fully-developed plugin system so that new kinds of services can be added easily.

KFORGE CLUB

It is clear that there are common project hosting needs across most organisations. For the last 4 years, the goals and the resources for KForge development have been provided solely by the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Appropriate Software Foundation.

KForge Club is a way to share the cost of developing project hosting capabilities, so that every project can benefit from well-supported, high-quality, open-source, project hosting architecture.

In order to sustain the development of KForge, we are seeking to share the objectives and costs of KForge development with others. We would like to emphasize that KForge will, of course, remain open-source software.

You can find out more about KForge Club at the Service Desk.

SCHEDULE

• 02 November 2009 – Call for Participation
• 16 November 2009 – Call for Proposals
• 14 December 2009 – Publish Prospectus
• 11 January 2010 – Call for Agreement
• 29 January 2010 – End of cycle

ABOUT US

KForge Club is hosted by John Bywater (Appropriate Software Foundation) and Rufus Pollock (Open Knowledge Foundation).

The Appropriate Software Foundation is a service-oriented software and organisation development consultancy, dedicated to creating and providing open-source software services that enable small organisations to accomplish their objects.

The Open Knowledge Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open knowledge in all its forms. It is a leader in this field nationally and internationally.