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WOMBAT 0.1.1 released.

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Thanks to Thomas Ingham aka. magnethead, WOMBAT now uses CSS instead of tables for layout elements. While he was at it, Tom also revamped the colour scheme.
This got me to work on some user interface issues myself, getting you a new WOMBAT look as well as improved navigation.
As always, check out the live demo.

WOMBAT 0.1.0 released.

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

I’m happy to announce the first alpha release of WOMBAT.
WOMBAT provides a nicer web frontend to the WorldForge media repository.
The 0.1.0 release provides the basic functionality of browsing the media repository:

A directory view listing subdirectories and files in the shown directory
A file view showing detailed information about the file and a file preview
A search function [...]

WOMBAT 0.0.4 released.

Friday, July 4th, 2008

WOMBAT 0.0.4 has been released today.
Changes to version 0.0.3 include

Files are now grouped by type in the directory view
The file view has preview for text, image and sound files

As always, my home box runs a demo site.

WOMBAT 0.0.3 released.

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Probably the last release of the current sprint, I’m glad to announce WOMBAT 0.0.3.
Changes to 0.0.2:

Only scan media repository once
Show “Latest Additions”

As before, my home box has a demo.

WOMBAT 0.0.1 released.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

The WorldForge team is proud to present the first release of WOMBAT, the WorldForge Open Media Browser/Archive Tool.
WOMBAT aims to improve the user experience browsing our media repository by providing a nice web front-end and, in later versions, search (and maybe even upload) features.
As you can tell from the version number, WOMBAT is still very [...]

Summer of Code 2008 students announced

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

The final students for the Google Summer of Code 2008 have been announced. We were really pleased with all of the applications we got and had a really hard time selecting the top three to fill our three slots. The three lucky ones are:
Student: Alexey Torkhov
Mentor: Erik Hjortsberg
Project: [...]

Google Summer of Code 2008 is on.

Monday, March 17th, 2008

WorldForge has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008.
If you are a student interested in participating, see our project ideas list, visit us in the #lounge channel on irc.worldforge.org or say hello on the general mailing list. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
We would like to thank [...]

Wiki upgraded

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

I have just upgraded the wiki to mediawiki 1.11.0.
My tests are looking good, but if you find anything broken, just send me an email.

Using the launchpad for more transparent development

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

During the last couple of weeks we’ve been using the Launchpad service for development.
The Launchpad is a rich bug and feature tracker developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. It also providers other features useful for developers, such as translations and general answers to common questions about the application. Personally I think one of its [...]

Scheduled wiki upgrade, possible downtime

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

This weekend I will upgrade the wiki to mediawki 1.10.0. This wil probably happen on Saturday. I’m not going to estimate the downtime, just expect there’s going to be downtime this weekend.


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