Hello to all our fellow users.
Hope you have all had a reasonable summer/winter.
Thought I'd do a quick update on things.
I'm sure many of you are asking 'What about SME 11?'
The first answer is what have YOU been doing about it? This is open source. It isn't just our responsibility.....
So, please come and help us if you want to see it happen. Contact me for a Rocket.Chat account and you can get yourself involved. You do not have to be a skilled coder - there are plenty of things you can do without having to be a hacker.
The second answer is some people have spent hours, days, weeks and months of their lives and spare time building and testing a new rpm build system.
Our old system that builds and releases packages is ancient and some of the tools we use to manage it are no longer supported and hard to maintain. We needed a newer system to build rpm packages, which then get built into a ISO.
We also wanted to migrate from using CVS to using git and gitea.
Last year Trevor elected to have a go at setting up a Koji build system.
https://koji.build/https://wiki.koozali.org/Koji_Build_FarmI'm not sure that if he knew what he knows now he would have ever started it! It is massively complicated. It has taken him, skilled in IT as he is, months to get working properly.
However, after many epic struggles, and with a massive shout to Jean-Philippe for all the core infrastructure work, we finally, finally, have it basically working.
Massive kudos to Trevor, Brian, Jean Philippe and Terry who have all worked tirelessly together on this. (note - it is the same few names every time).
Brian has also been working in a frenzy on the new server manager, built on top of the huge mountain of backend work by Michel. It is built using Mojolicious and uses a templating/theming system using bootstrap/jquery to build panels. This is available for testing on v10 and will become the new manager interface in v11. Anyone with any ability in web design will be welcome to help. Everyone is welcome to test it.
See here:
https://wiki.koozali.org/Server_Manager2https://wiki.koozali.org/Server_Manager_2_Howto_incorporate_a_legacy_contribYou can see from the list of bugs how much work there has been.....
JP has been working on a number of improvements to various backend systems like better integration of letsencrypt in to SME in preparation for a new build of v11.
All of this is slowly but surely coming together. It would happen faster with more help......
We hope to have some Alpha ISOs out before long for testing. We will need as many hands as possible to help with this.
Note that we think that we will also be able to "fairly easily" build Koozali SME v12 soon after as the Koji system can build for more than one version at a time. This will be a massive leap forward for us and enable to us to be a little more 'up to date than we have been to date.
So, we have been busy. We'd really appreciate some help. Websites, newsletters, social media, testing etc. There is a lot to do and we don't have the time to cover it all.
Please come and help us!
B. Rgds,
John
PS I have only really skimmed things here. The list of names that should be in the Hall of Fame here is small because the core group of devs is small, and I hope I haven't missed anyone!
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