Introduction
This is the first of a series of summaries the PostNuke project is
publishing to keep you, the community, better informed about what is
happening with PostNuke both in development and other areas like site
improvements.
Development News
Recently, Mark West has spent a large amount of time getting the
templating environment based on SMARTY ready for PostNuke .726. This
consists of the pnRender module, and the Xanthia themes module.
Xanthia is the .8 module for the templating of theme elements, and
should make building themes much easier than the traditional
‘hand-coded’ theme building method. Xanthia also brings many new
features and more functionality to PostNuke themes, gving the site
administrator more control over the site and it’s appearance.
By the end of the week Xanthia will be ready for the quality assurance
and beta testing stage, and will be released to the pnCorps. It then
will undergo a period of testing and bug-fixing ready for a rough
release date of early December.
As a part of the templating environment package, pnRender for the
templating of module output will be released. It's hoped by the release
of .8 there will be a substantial number of modules and themes that will
take advantage of the new features available to change the appearance of
a PostNuke website.
Weblinks/Downloads Streamlined
We've recently consolidated and streamlined the weblinks and downloads
sections for the PostNuke site to make it easier for users to locate
modules, themes, and related websites. We encourage everyone with
something to contribute to submit their links to the approporiate
categories.
Feature Requests, Patch Submissions and Bugs
We encourage everyone using PostNuke to get involved and the easiest and
quickest way for you to contribute back to the community is to submit
feature requests, bugs, and patches. We have set up a sophitiscated
system we call the "pnNOC" that stands for "PostNuke Network Operations
Center" as a centralized place to maintain this project information.
Also, if you are a developer we encourage to use the NOC to host your
module, so just submit a project request to get started.
pnNOC Links:
Feature Requests:
http://noc.postnuke.com/tracker/?atid=104&group_id=5&func=browse
Report Bugs:
http://noc.postnuke.com/tracker/?atid=101&group_id=5&func=browse
Submit Patches:
http://noc.postnuke.com/tracker/?atid=103&group_id=5&func=browse