Habari Project

Keeping a watch on Habari

michaeltwofish — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:58:26 -0600

If you like to keep an eye on what's happening in the world of Habari, AndyC has just launched Habari Watch, where he promises to report on his Habari-related scraping of the IntarWebs. Andy's writing is always enjoyable to read, so it should be fun to watch the watcher.

Habari on the Move

morydd — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:03:11 -0500

The Habari Community is on the move. In order to provide more stability for HabariProject.org, we're moving our site to new servers. This will not only increase our uptime, but also allow us to be more open with access to various aspects of the server. Openness is one of the core values of the Habari Community and having more involvement from the community with maintenance, features, and development on the servers will help the project grow.

While there may be some hiccups as we move, we hope to get them resolved as soon as possible. If you notice an error, please let us know, either with a comment on this post or by sending an email to the mailing list.

Habari Version 0.5.2

morydd — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:06:15 -0500

The Habari Community announces the release of version 0.5.2. This version is a critical security update; all users of any version prior to 0.5.2 should upgrade at once. Additionally users of HEAD should also update to the latest revision.

This update addresses security issues reported at secunia.com, related to unsanitized user input via the URL enabling a "less critical" XSS vulnerability. Using this vulnerability, malicious users could craft an external link that when clicked by a logged-in user could cause harmful data loss. Developers interested in the extent of the changes should review the makaanga 0.x branch log.

Thanks are due to the entire community for identifying and patching this bug in a timely manner.

0.5.1 Released

MattRead — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:10:19 -0500

A security issue was discovered in 0.5, and is now fixed in 0.5.1. This is a mandatory upgrade and you should upgrade to 0.5.1 immediately. You can download 0.5.1 from the download page.

Thanks to all those who helped in discovering and fixing the bug. Again, please upgrade to 0.5.1 immediately.

Squashed. Closed. Opened.

michaeltwofish — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:27:59 -0500

We had lots of people drop by during the Bug Hunt at the weekend, and for the most part it was good fun. Many bugs were squashed, many tickets closed, and some issues found. In the process, we merged in the schema changes for the upcoming 0.6 release, and planned the future, in a Habari kind of way.

While it was 13 September somewhere in the world, Habari had 63 commits (though some of this was branching and merging fun and games), 12 new tickets and 30 closed tickets. And, as often happens, the momentum continued afterwards, so all in all this week Habari has had 114 commits, 21 new tickets and 34 closed tickets. Not a bad result.

The extras repository has also had a bit of attention, with nine commits, including one new plugin, and one new ticket. Again, the momentum continued, so that this week the extras repository has had 46 commits, including three new plugins to bring it to over 100 plugins now, four new tickets, and one closed. And if the plugin you desperately need isn't there, add a plugin to the wishlist and maybe someone can help you out.

A successful hunt. Of course, the invitation to drop by IRC for a chat is always open. There's always someone there.

Hunt bugs, or just say 'hi'

michaeltwofish — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:10:59 -0500

Our second Bug Hunt is happening this Saturday, 13 September. Of course, finding and fixing bugs is the main focus of a Bug Hunt, but getting together with the community and having fun is also important. The Bug Hunt will be coordinated in the #habari IRC channel, and we'd like to invite you (yes, you) to drop in and say 'hi', even if you're not already part of the Habari community (If you're not familiar with IRC, you can use the web interface). Think of it as a community BBQ.

Our community is spread over the world, so there'll be people from lots of timezones, and it won't just be a 24-hour event.

Hope to see you there.

0.5 Released

MattRead — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:51:33 -0500

At long last, the Habari community is pleased to announce that Habari version 0.5 is ready for download. There are many significant enhancements in this version, including the following.

A new administrative interface, lovingly named Monolith.
Several translations are being shipped with Habari. These include the default English, as well as Danish, German, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese.
We now include three themes in the download.
In addition to using MySQL and SQLite, you now have the choice of using PostgreSQL as your backend database.
Session handling has been improved.
Limited UTF8 support has been added.
There are importers for both WordPress and Serendipity.
Improved SQLite security out of the box.
Habari's form creation interface has been revamped, allowing for more customization of forms by plugins and creating an infrastructure for creating new content types.
And many more ...

Want to test drive habari before downloading it? Go check out the demo site, just hit Login to login and use the admin section as well.

Please review the documentation for information about upgrading or installing from scratch.

Thanks to everyone who helped make this release happen, and to you for checking out Habari. Please share your experience with Habari.

Sourceforge 2008 Community Choice Awards

ringmaster — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:57:43 -0500

We are very honored that Habari was recognized as a finalist for "Best New Project" in the 2008 Community Choice Awards. While we're still early in our development process, it is gratifying to have the hard work of the entire community up to this point recognized along with some other great projects.

Voting for the winner in each category is open to any SourceForge member. Please register and vote, hopefully dropping a chad for your favorite new blogging platform.

The competition looks impressive, and we're looking forward to the results of the contest at the Sourceforge party during OSCON on July 24th.

Flashback June 15

ringmaster — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:46:50 -0500

Welcome to one unusual Habari flashback! Your usual host, Sean, is off having a baby, so expect a much lower-quality flashback than usual. Congrats to Sean, and good luck with your new blogger, er, baby!

Our last flashback was a while ago, and time flies fast in Habari-land, so there's plenty of news to report. As we make our approach for the landing of Habari 0.5, activity has increased to a nearly frantic pace. Brace yourselves...

Wiki

This week on the Wiki we opened up the topic of Working Groups, specialized groups working toward a specific goal. We've got one group formed already, the podcasting group, and hopefully they can come up with something workable for PodCamp Ohio, which is now just two weeks away.

We've seen a bit of wiki production in documenting what we're going to do before we do it. There has been positive feedback in IRC on this method of producing documentation. Examples include the recent FormUI revisions, and the brand new Dashboard Modules.

Some other interesting happenings in the wiki take us straight to...

Development Mailing List

It seems there's some interest in producing Chinese translations in the wiki. Ideas for making this the best possible resource for all members of the community have been solicited. Maybe someone should form a Wiki Localization Working Group?

The undertaking to reorganize the -extras subversion repository for community plugins and themes has been accomplished. Heated debates about issues of user privacy took place on IRC and flooded into the mailing list. The requirement for javascript within the admin was discussed, including some ideas about creating a dedicated mobile admin interface.

Users Mailing List

Comparatively fewer messages have been trickling into the user list, but this is bound to change as Habari inevitably gains more user share.

The Solaris distribution continues to confound developers with its inability to support the PHP glob() function the same way as other platforms.

New plugins were released, including Date Ninja, a plugin that makes date entry on posts easier. New plugins for displaying the most recent entries from audioscrobbler and jaiku were also released.

Naranja, a new theme, was announced on the user list, as well as a theme named Aligned.

Code Stats

JibbyBot (our resident bot on Freenode IRC's #habari channel) reports that Habari has had 342 commits, 133 new tickets, and 123 closed tickets this month. That's a good bit of progress toward our 0.5 release. With you helping the community build it, we'll certainly see it very soon!

Flashback May 7-12

morydd — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:22:20 -0500

Welcome back to the Habari Flashback. We've had another busy week in the wake of the Monolith upgrade. Enjoy!

Wiki

This week, on the Wiki more progress was made in documenting all of the various classes in Habari with the additions of CronTab and CronJob entries.

User Mailing List

On the habari-user list, help was given with using alternate languages in Habari as well as calling custom functions based on page slug.

Developer Mailing List

The habari-dev list was home to talk of adding color to the new administration system. The beginings of translation efforts for Habari were covered. Also, the some discussion of policy issues for Habari were brought up.

Issue Tracker

Once again we had a busy week on the issue tracker. The bulk of the issues reported relate to the merge of Monolith with core as we refine the administration of Habari. Additionally efforts towards internationalization continued with work on the translation of K2, as well as an addition to the FormUI functions.