Where's the current central blosxom information point?

Hi!

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 08:43:42AM -0000, Michael Lamertz wrote:
> Subject: Where's the current central blosxom information point?

Short answer: There isn't any central point.

> Lately, I'm wondering, who currently has the control over the
> "official" code.

Define "official".

There is an "official" but neglected and partially malfunctioning
website and version at www.blosxom.com. IIRC someone mentioned on this
list, that there are or at least were efforts to unify all the
different resources, especially to reactivate www.blosxom.com as a
central (and uptodate) information with new maintainers.

> Whom would I send patch-proposals to,

To the sourceforge project.

> where do I d/l an official stable or development version,

defacto official stable version also at sf project. Development
version? AFAIK currently there is only active development on the
stable version with focus on bugfixes and slight enhancements.

> and what's the central starting point for blosxom?

Probably nowadays, it's the unofficial blosxom usergroup.

> The sourceforge.net homepage still features a "Just testing here right
>; now..."

Well, yes. This just seems to count for the own webspace at SF, not
for the project itself.

> although there's a version to d/l.

Yeah, the project is not only testing.

> Then there's the
> "unofficial blosxom usergroup",

This is where you currently find an uptodate plugin registry and some
news around the blosxom community.

> and I just found the O'Reilly wiki link here in the yahoo group's
> link section.

Don't know that, but since Raeol works (worked?) at O'Reilly it's
probably as outdated as his blosxom.com

> Also, I'm wondering, what's the current development track.

IMHO there is none.

> Is v3 the
> way to go,

v3 development stalled in a very alpha state and is unusable according
to Rael IIRC.

> or will development primarily continue in the v2 branch?

The v2 branch is stable and widely used, so people started optimizing
it. Although the v2 base is quite old there's still a lot of plugin
development, partially implementing new technologies in blogging like
tagging, partially implementing completely new ideas.

> I've been lurking this list quite some time now, but haven't seen any
> discussion about the blosxom code itself, only usage problems. Is
> there a developer mailing list?

There is one at SF. See
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blosxom-devel --
According to the web page it has about 20 subscribers.

HTH, although it probably just shows the situation as I see it.

Regards, Axel
--
Axel Beckert - abedeuxchevaux.org - http://abe.home.pages.de/

On Jun 23, 2006, at 2:11 AM, Axel Beckert wrote:
>
>>; Lately, I'm wondering, who currently has the control over the
>> "official" code.
>;

I would consider the sourceforge project is the "official" version at
this point.

>
>> where do I d/l an official stable or development version,
>
> defacto official stable version also at sf project. Development
> version? AFAIK currently there is only active development on the
> stable version with focus on bugfixes and slight enhancements.

Yeah, there's nothing I would call a "development" version at this
point.

>> The sourceforge.net homepage still features a "Just testing here right
>;> now..."
>
> Well, yes. This just seems to count for the own webspace at SF, not
> for the project itself.

My apologizes for the confusion there. There was a plan to migrate
blosxom.com to the sourceforge hosting, and we were testing just to
make sure the web page hosting was properly set up. Then that sort of
stalled and got left like it is.

-kevin