[Hypercontent-developer] HyperContent 2.0 beta pre-announcement

[Alex V. <av...@co...>]

Greetings,
	I thank you all for your patience with the HyperContent 2.0 
development of late.  I can assure you that the quiet on this list has 
not indicated a lack of development activity; the workflow engine and 
screens have come together, as have the bulk of the workflow scripts 
that will come with the release.  There is still some work to be done 
to enable localization throughout - all the workflow screens are 
littered with "keys" rather than labels for the moment, and scheduling 
of workflow activities (build, publish, zip ,etc) is not yet available. 
  However, the current code base is quite stable, and performing well.  
I will be working today on the release notes and light documentation to 
support a beta release, which will consist of the current CVS code plus 
a sample project.  I hope to approach final release status within 
another month, but I think this beta will represent a solid foundation 
for those eager to get started with version 2.  Migration of existing 
version 1.4 projects is quite simple, though groups and permissions 
have to be manually re-entered.  The beta will be of sufficient quality 
to develop new sites as well, with some excellent new features for 
developers, including support for ** patterns, improved dependency 
recognition, quick XSL previewing, image processing pipelines and more.

You can expect the beta announcement in the next couple of days.  I 
will be hosting a pre-conference seminar on HyperContent 2 at the 
upcoming JA-SIG conference in Baltimore, for those who would like a 
hands-on tour.  There are indications that the seminar may fill up, so 
register soon!

-Alex