Typo official weblog

Not many news since Christmas rush and Typo 5.0 release, mostly because we've been rather busy since then. I've quited my job, and released a second kids about 10 days ago, which took me most of my spare time. Typo is not dead however, so expect a 5.0.3 bugfix release soon, coming with 2 new translations thank to DAddYE and Togawamanabu. Next time you'll upgrade your Typo, you'll have it natively running in :

• English.
• French.
• German.
• Italian.
• Japanese.
• Romanian.

Many thanks to all the contributors who have translated the application so far.

There's a critical bug in Typo 5.0 that has forced us to retire Typo 5.0.x from Rubyforge until we find out what really happens. It seems that, under certain still undefined cicumstances, when runnin SQLite, which is at the same time our default installer and Ruby on Rails 2.0 database, Typo just erases itself with its parent directory. We're actively working on this issue, even on new year's eve, trying first to find out if it's a Typo or Rails VS SQLite matter. Be sure we'll release a 5.0.2 version fixing everything as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience.

We’re late at releasing Typo 5. By 4 days as far as I know. Don’t think we’ve just been slacking, that’s false. Truth is out there used to say agent Mulder, and I do agree with him tonight. I’ve always been a Danna Scully fan. So what ?

We had to choose either to release an unready buggy Typo 5.0 just to keep the delays, or let you wait a few more days and give you a cool nice Xmas present. We choosed the latter without hesitation. So what happened ?

I’ve spent my sunday evening and my monday morning porting the 117 themes from dev411 Typo themes viewer to the new version. Most of them were 2.6.0 compliant and they all needed some tweaks. That’s done, and they will be online in time for the release. I’m now porting a bunch of 63 wordpress themes. Feel free to help, it’s easy, all you need is some HTML knowledge, a text editor, Firefox and Firebug.

We’ve added 2 new themes as default, replacing the old Azure with Standard Issue, and adding Dirtylicious as a secondary theme. Scribbish stays in the default themes for backward compatibility. There are too many blogs using it as a default theme to just remove it that way. We’ve also added a theme editor, useful for people who don’t want to mess with FTP to edit their templates.

We’ve been bumping into some huge issues with Rails 2.0 caching and Piers is working on it to get everything fine before we release. There are still a few minor bugs left now, and they will be fixed as well before release time.

That’s all folks, stay tuned.

After last week Rails 2.0, Typo 5.0 is soon to be released. As this is a major change, we have decided to change the default theme and to let you decide what you want as a default theme.

Standard issue

View Standard Issue in action.

Dirtylicious

View Dirtylicious in action.

Abstract

View Abstract in action.

Rambling Soul

View Rambling Soul in action.

Nautica

View Nautica in action.

No news good news is not a motto that should be applied to an open source project. In spite of very few commits during August, be relieved as Typo is not dead at all, as Piers and I are keeping things up when we have free time to do so.

This week-end has been pretty busy around Typo, with many new things happening. Many tickets have been closed, which means less bugs for the next version we’re working on. But the most visible change is without a doubt the new admin we’ve added to the trunk, which is better, cleaner and easier to use. We’re still working on it to give you the most enjoyable experience in terms of usability. You can already see what has been done on our Typo demonstration platform.

Typo basic settings

Typo article lists

Typo edition screen

Stay, we’re not done yet with the news.

Jordan Bracco, a French Ruby on Rails developper is porting Classicish as a new Typo template. Classicish aims at replacing Scribbish as a more appealing but still hatom compliant secondary theme. Jordan has already contributed to Typo in the past, porting Hemingway to 4.1 and Wordpress Kubrick theme to Typo. Those will soon join our official themes repository. We’re also looking for a replacement theme for Azure which looks a bit old fashion now.

And for the last quick stuff.

I’m still working on giving Typo a real mutiple users capability, and I may profit from my last week of holliday to finish this and maybe release a 4.2 version before the end of the week. We’ve been warned by some people of Typo performances issues, and we’re working on them. And last but not least, I’ve used my insomnia to set up a new Typosphere site using Typo as a CMS. We’re currently refactoring and moving every user related doc from the trac to that site. I’ll write about it very soon when I’m done with it.

Stay tuned!

Wow… we finally got this working? How long did that take?

If anyone’s interested in the future of Typo’s innards, you might like to swing by a brain dump I just posted to my personal blog.

Bear in mind that it’s not a roadmap, it’s more of a pencil sketch, but I’d appreciate any feedback you may have.

This should have happened sooner, but we're proud to announce the opening of the official Typo blog. This blog is dedicated to major announcements, releases, infos, tweaks and tricks abbout your favourite blogging engine. Things have been running fast lately, and some people are working around Typo to build the next major release. Translations are on their way but we still need people to help localize Typo. We are supporting English, French and German, so if you're ready to translate, just join us. YOU can make Typo the wonderful blogging engine it may be.