[Linkbase-announce] LinkBase Devel Mailing List <linkbase-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>

[Jean H. <gu...@al...>]

Hello !

Things have been quite quiet last months, but LinkBase is not
dead. The project was just sleeping ;)

The 1.4 version is in developpement. Here's a list of expected
features :
- the ability for a link to belong to more than one link topic (Sven
  Erik Andersen's idea)
- full support for PostgreSQL (Yeah! Even the SQL dumps to create the
  base will be available this time ! ;-)
- Import/Export bookmarks from/to Netscape (J. Leclercq should be
  working on it but it has been long since I didn't heard anything
  from him -- anyone willing to help ?), and mozilla
- an option to recover a deleted link (for example, you're a moderator
  and you've denied a link to enter the base, what is going to be
  done, is the ability to take this deleted and put it in the
  moderation queue again)
- on the main page, some 2nd level topics should be displayed (like on
  Yahoo! or on any other descent annuary)
- add a $table_prefix setting (may please thoses who install LinkBase on a
  website where they only have one database). For example, if you set the
  $table_prefix setting to 'lb', you'll have to rename the topics
  table to lb_topics, the moderators table to lb_moderators, and so
  on. But the topics and moderators table will be available for your
  website datas.
- create a 'Personal patch' for LinkBase 1.4 (or later). When this
  patch is applied, moderation functions are disabled, everybody is
  running LinkBase with moderator rights.
- mail the LinkBase owner in case of problem
- more persistent moderator connexion than just a session (I don't
  know about you, but I'm tired to log on as a moderator every time I
  close my browser ;-)

For those who are interested, a CVS repository is available since
December. Just send me a patch or something if you want write access.
Anyone can access the CVS in read-only. Just type this :

export CVSROOT=:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/aboutlinux
cvs login
cvs checkout LinkBase

As a consequence, a 'LinkBase' directory will be created in the
current directory.

To keep up to date with the latest bugs^wsources, cd to the 'LinkBase'
directory, type the first two commands and then :
cvs update
instead of cvs checkout.


Perhaps you're wondering why the CVS is not hosted on SourceForge. In
fact, since VA Linux (the company that is paying for SourceForge) is
currently introducing closed-source piece of software in the
SourceForge infrastructure, making it harder and harder for developpers
to export their projects to other web-hosting plateforms, and taking
its distance with the free software community, we'll move to another
place. Our new location will be on Tuxfamily.org [www.tuxfamily.org],
a web hosting plateform that offers every services we need (virtual
web hosting, mailing lists, CVS, ...) for free.
The project website will move after LinkBase 1.4 is out.


Thanks for your interest in Linkbase !

-- 
 Jean HAUSSER, aka 'Guffle'
 web : http://linkbase.sourceforge.net