The KForge Project

KForge 0.11 Released

KForge 0.11 is out. Get it via the download page:

http://www.kforgeproject.com/download/

Or direct from

http://www.kforgeproject.com/files/kforge-0.11.tar.gz

Changes

• system administration interface at /admin/
• complete rewrite of web interface code to be simpler and cleaner
• expanded and improved documentation
• dav access fully functional and fixes to access control: ticket:11, ticket:8, ticket:15, ticket:16
• command line interface rewritten and centralized in kforge-admin
• support for trac >= 0.9 (while maintaining support for trac 0.8)
• improved logging for development and sysadmin purposes
• other minor fixes/improvements: ticket:1, ticket:5, ticket:3

About KForge

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.

For more information see the about page: http://www.kforgeproject.com/about/

Add comment July 4th, 2006

KForge 0.11 Release Candidate 2

After fixing a couple of bugs discovered in the RC1 (in particular ticket 16) we’ve prepared a second release candidate incorporating fixes. The code is looking pretty stable and it should not be long until 0.11 is released.

Add comment June 23rd, 2006

KForge 0.11 Release Candidate 1

After a lot of polishing over the last couple of weeks the first KForge 0.11 release candidate is ready. The 0.11 release delivers large number of improvements and fixes (see the CHANGES for full details) so why not try it out. Existing users can find full upgrade instructions in the the UPGRADE file while new users should follow the instructions in INSTALL.

Add comment June 3rd, 2006

New: Web Interface for Domain Model Admin

We’ve just finished adding in a major new feature to KForge: complete domain model administration from the web interface (available at /admin/). This means that all aspects of KForge from plugins to permissions can be administered from the web.

Even more importantly, because the system is reflective any changes to the domain model are immediately visible in this admin interface. This feature will really come into its own when we reuse the core kforge code base in other projects such as CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network).

2 comments May 12th, 2006

Command Line Interface Overhauled

The KForge command line interface has been extensively overahauled and centralized into a single script: kforge-admin (the other remaining scripts are only used for development).

Not only does kforge-admin centralize all the old commands in one handy place it also provides interactive support and makes it easier to move between different KForge installations (something also assisted by the move to a default of site-wide installation of the KForge system when you run python setup.py install). You can find more about exactly what it will do by just running: $ kforge-admin

Quite a bit of effort has been put into improving the help and making this slicker but I’m sure rough edges remain. If you encounter one please let me know (or post a trac ticket).

Add comment April 14th, 2006

KForge 0.10 Released

KForge 0.10 is formally out. Get it via the download page.

More Information

KForge 0.10 sees several major and minor improvements including:

• Improved and refactored access control system
• Single sign-on to administration and services
• Easier browsing of projects and users
• Optional captcha functionality to prevent registration spamming
• (bugfix) auto-rebuild of webserver configuration to allow immediate access to created services

About KForge

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.

For more information see the about page: http://www.kforgeproject.com/about/

1 comment March 27th, 2006

Next Release a Few Weeks Away

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.

Add comment February 28th, 2006

Access Control System Overhauled

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.

Add comment January 30th, 2006

KForge 0.9 Released

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/

Add comment January 12th, 2006

KForge 0.9 Done and Dusted

KForge 0.9 is now done and dusted but we’ve decided to hold off the formal release until the new year. We’ve done this for two reasons. First off, this will give us some time to ‘eat our own dog food’ (i.e. install it on our servers) so as to catch any last minute items. Second, and more important, it will mean that rather than being caught up in the last minute rush before Christmas it will instead be rolled fresh and clean in the New Year when everyone (including ourselves) will have proper time to digest.

Add comment December 19th, 2005