We recommend open source software whenever we can, and the Firefox browser from Mozilla is one of our favorites. Firefox 3.6 recently came out with persona support, allowing users to skin their browsers with favorite designs and brands. WordPress users everywhere seem to love the W symbol (at WordCamps it shows up on everything from [...]

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We are happy to announce the availability of eZ Publish 4.3.0 beta2. It provides several fixes and updates to the extensions provided.

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That’s right, we are finally going to get rid of our custom coded bugtracking system and move to something more mainstream.

After much reading and testing, we’ve decided upon JIRA http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/.
It came down to either bugzilla and Jira, we chose Jira because it seemed more focused on planning and not just bugs, it also has some additional features that we were looking for that just weren’t available in bugzilla (at least not that we could find).

The new system is up and running here http://e107inc.org:8080, we will be updating e107.org soon with the new links.

Using Jira will require a new log in, separate from e107.org. You can still view everything without logging in, but in order to open a bug or post a comment you will need to register for an account.

We are discussing which bugs from the current bugtracker to move over to Jira, it may end up being only the currently open bugs and we may even restrict it to less than that. None of the comments will be able to be moved, only the bug report itself.
We are also discussing moving the ‘ideas’ over to Jira as ‘Enhancement requests’. This will give us one-stop shopping for bugs and requests and just makes sense. Again, we’ll have to make some decision on which ones to move over.

For those on the support team, Jira does allow for private comments so we will have to get you all added to a different user-class within Jira. So once you get an account over there, let one of us know and we’ll hook you up.

Some of you have been asking about some sort of private bugtracking system for the progress on 0.8, as well as just having a way to track what we are working on. Jira will allow for both of these to happen. The devs are going to make an effort to create issues for all items we are or will be working on, Jira will also auto-link the commits relating to each issue, as long as we remark the commits correctly.

Did I say bugtracking for 0.8? Yes I did! We will be looking for a few willing, experienced e107′ers to start posting bugs for 0.8. Please contact a dev if you’d like to do this, please ensure you have an account on Jira already.

NOTE: Please expect some issues/changes/stumbling with Jira, we are all still learning the software.

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We are excited that Google Summer of Code is underway again this year. After having had a successful first Google Summer of Code last year, we are happy to also apply for GSoC 2010.
We’re…

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A security vulnerabilitiy has been discovered in the third party TYPO3 extension “Calendar Base”.

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In our latest Management Team meeting we have come to the conclusion that will have to move along without one of our most valuable leaders that everyone knows as PMM.

We have great plans ahead for PHP-Fusion and that means a lot of action in all departments. Life just comes as it is… so I guess lack of time, probably also lack of a perfect health made PMM rethink his plans because he let us know he won’t be able to keep up with all our action so for now we wish him all the best, we thank him for all the contributions and hopefully things will change for the better sometime in the future.

PMM, take care of yourself and thank you for all the great stuff!

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It was recently discovered by a local Turkish member serhat5858 and Soulsmasher that many of his themes were being released by another member as their original work. Upon investigation, the copied theme code was almost exactly the same, in some instances identical, except that the original acknowledgements and copyright information was missing.

This will not stand! There is zero tolerance for this kind of violation. As a result of this discovery, the member concerned was sent a warning, the reply to which was extremely dismissive. He has now been permanently banned from all PHP-Fusion sites, including the NSS sites, and his submissions have been removed. Not to mention his name in the Open Source community as a whole is now worthless.

To do this to a person who freely gives so much help and support to anyone who asks is beneath contempt. So, to anyone who’s thinking of trying to do the same to make themselves seem a better coder than they actually are, be warned! You will eventually get caught and exposed! It is theft, nothing less. We’ve been quite courteous and polite in matters like this for a number of years, but we hereby inform you that if you get caught in behaving in such a way, we will take swift actions as soon as we spot it from this day and after.

Please note, that AGPL does cover Themes, Infusions etc as well as the whole of PHP-Fusion, if you as a 3rd party developer breaks the license, you have forfeited the whole license as such.

The only requirement the Open Source community asks of anyone wanting to use their code is that you leave any copyright info intact, that’s it! Without this one hard and fast rule, the quality of the code gets diluted and lost leaving talented people with no incentive to continue.

We understand the overwhelming majority of members would never do this and many thanks to those who have reported such people to us over the years.

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You might have heard of last years’ TYPO3 coding week “TYPO3 User eXperience Week” where 30 TYPO3 enthusiasts met in a castle to bring TYPO3 closer to the user. This meant that these coders,…

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You might have heard of last years’ TYPO3 coding week “TYPO3 User eXperience Week” where 30 TYPO3 enthusiasts met in a castle to bring TYPO3 closer to the user. This meant that these coders,…

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Back in April of last year, Matt posted here on the dev blog about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation of WordPress MU. Many people were excited about the idea, but were unable to experiment with BuddyPress because they ran single installations of WordPress rather [...]

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