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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.

KForge v0.16 is now officially out having been stable for a couple of months on our production machines. This release includes:

• Clean-up of authentication system
• This eliminates svn 1.5 bug (svn add did not work under svn 1.5)
• Deployment under virtualenv for sandboxed installations
• Increase compatibility across external libs (e.g. django 1.0)
• Variety of other minor but important fixes as we prepare for the release of v1.0

Download it from the python package index here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/kforge/0.16

KForge v0.16 is now nearly done and has been deployed as a release candidate on http://knowledgeforge.net/ and http://demo.kforgeproject.com/. This release includes:

• Clean-up of authentication system
• This eliminates svn 1.5 bug (svn add did not work under svn 1.5)
• Deployment under virtualenv for sandboxed installations
• Increase compatibility across external libs (e.g. django 1.0)
• Variety of other minor but important fixes as we prepare for the release of v1.0

KForge 0.15 is out. Get it via the download page: http://www.kforgeproject.com/download/

Changes

• KForge plugin discovery via setuptools entry points
• Mercurial plugin providing support of mercurial/hg repositories
• (Partial) move to nosetests for testing
• Improved documentation
• Debian package version