The KForge Project

The next release will be renamed from 0.9.1 to 0.10 to reflect the fact that rather than being a minor ‘bugfix’ release it contains several new features, in particular a new access control system that requires an upgrade of the database.

We have now branched the code for this release from the main trunk at revision 787 (i.e. before the latest work by John to create a ‘core’ codebase) and it is available in subversion under: branches/kforge-0.10

It is has already been up and running on the testing system for a while and it seems pretty stable. After making a few final tweaks and testing it for a little while longer it should be ready for release some time within the next few weeks.

After extensive discussion earlier this month the access control system has been seriously overhauled and improved thanks to John’s efforts. You can read all about it here: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/kforge-dev/2006-January/000140.html

and here: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/kforge-dev/2006-January/000143.html

With a few more tweaks this should form the basis of a 0.91 release.

KForge 0.9 is formally out. Get it via the download page.

More Information

KForge is an open-source (GPL) system for managing software and knowledge projects. It re-uses existing best-of-breed tools such as a versioned storage (subversion), a tracker (trac), and wiki (trac or moinmoin), integrating them with the system’s own facilities (projects, users, permissions etc). KForge also provides a complete web interface for project administration as well a fully-developed plugin system so that new services and features can be easily added.

Major features:

• Projects, users and permissions
• Best of breed tools available out of the box including subversion, trac, moinmoin
• Extensible with a fully developed plugin system and simple API
• Opensource and python-based

You can check-out a sandbox site at: http://demo.kforgeproject.com/ Or a production site at: http://knowledgeforge.net/