PyBlosxom is participating under the PSF in Google Highly Open Participation and it's been a huge help for our project.

In the first week, PyBlosxom had four tasks all focused on testing plugins in the PyBlosxom registry with PyBlosxom 1.4.2, reporting/fixing issues, adding documentation, ... From that we've updated five plugin entries:

• pygallery
• contact
• filter
• autoping
• latest

Many thanks to darkmessenger and CanadaBear for their work!

There are two plugin-status related tasks left in GHOP (both expired today) and four new tasks focusing on performance testing PyBlosxom and writing code in the wake of changes for PyBlosxom 2.0.

Ryan and I are writing up a task for continued work on unit tests in PyBlosxom. I'll be adding that as a task in the next round of adding tasks.

Additionally, this project has given me some ideas on how to better organize outstanding tasks so that it's easier for people to figure out how to help out. I'll be working on that going forward as well.

/will (willhelm at users dot sourceforge dot net)

I installed MediaWiki on SourceForge to manage and coordinate work on PyBlosxom 2.0. We're slowly building specifications which specify what PyBlosxom does in 1.4, problems with that behavior and how it should be changed for 2.0.

Discussion of the specifications should be kept in the discussion pages of the wiki and on IRC at #pyblosxom on irc.freenode.net.

PyBlosxom 1.4.1 still had issues with WSGI, Paste and running on Python 2.5. This release fixes those issues, fixes some issues with running on Windows, and has better documentation for installation.

If you're having problems getting 1.4.1 running on Windows or Python 2.5/WSGI/Paste, I highly recommend you upgrade to 1.4.2.

Download here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67445&package_id=65802&release_id=532722

If you have any problems, please toss a bug in the bug tracker.

/will (willhelm at users dot sourceforge dot net)

p.s. I did the release on 8/16/2007, but forgot to mention it on the front page. Whoops!

PyBlosxom 1.4 had some issues with WSGI, Paste and running on Python 2.5. This release fixes those issues, has a minor optimization in Walk (Ryan removed a silly call to os.listdir), and has some updated documentation regarding installing with Paste.

If you're running 1.4, I highly recommend you upgrade to 1.4.1.

Download here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67445&package_id=65802

If you have any problems, toss a bug in the bug tracker.

/will (willhelm at users dot sourceforge dot net)

Pertinent to users:

1. Added a pyblcmd command line program for PyBlosxom command line things. This now handles static rendering, rendering a single url to stdout, testing your blog setup, ...
2. The Atom story template now has a $default_flavour bit in the link. Bug 1667937. (Thanks Michael!)
3. PyBlosxom is now locale aware in respects to dates, months, days of the week and such. Users should set the locale config property to a valid locale if they don't want English.
4. Added a ``blog_icbm`` config variable for use in the ICBM meta tag. See config_variables.txt for more information.
5. Changed the ``num_entries`` property in config.py from 40 to a much more conservative 5. Also changed the default value from 0 to 5 if you happened not to set ``num_entries`` at all. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373658 (Thanks Jon!)
6. Changed the self link in the atom feed to be of type application/atom+xml. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403008 (Thanks Brian!)
7. Added DOCUMENT_ROOT to the python path per Martin's suggestion. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367127 (Thanks Martin!)
8. Translated all documentation from Docbook to reST. reST documentation is easier to read in "source-form" and a lot easier to convert to HTML and other formats using the Python docutils tools. (Thanks John!)
9. Added support for Paste and brought the WSGI support into the codebase. (Thanks Steven and Yury!)

Pertinent to developers:

1. Lots of code clean-up, documentation, test-code, and some refactoring.
2. cb_filestat will only do an os.stat if no plugin handles the filestat. Previously, cb_filestat did an os.stat and ran through all the plugins allowing them to over-ride it.
3. Added some testing framework pieces. This requires nose. To run the tests, do::

         nosetests --verbose --include unit
         nosetests --verbose --include functional
   

Many thanks to all the people who've helped out over the last 17 months or so and the patience of our users.

/will (willhelm at users dot sourceforge dot net)

We've released version 1.3.3 of the contributed plugins pack! There are a number of additions and bug fixes since 1.3. Most focus on the comments plugins, including anti-spam plugins (Akismet and JavaScript) and AJAX support. The full list of changes is below.

You can download the new contrib pack here. If you find problems with contributed plugins, visit this page on how to contact us. "Problems" could be bugs, feature-requests, or setup issues.

-Ryan <ryanbarrett at users dot sourceforge dot net>

General

• reorganized directory structure.

pycalendar

• fixed to be locale aware and also added a config property for specifying which day to use as the first day of the week. (Thanks Martin!)

weblogsping

• fixed the plugin to handle error conditions.

comments

• handle UTF-8 encoded text correctly. (Thanks makoshark!)
• add $cmt_optionally_linked_author template variable.
• add support for sending comment email notifications via a local MTA, using the comment_mta_cmd config variable, instead of SMTP.
• add a simple new JavaScript-based anti-spam plugin, check_javascript.py.
• add the Akismet anti-spam filter, akismetcomments.py. (Thanks Mako and Blake Winton!)
• add support for AJAX comments.
• added nofollow support to $cmt_optionally_linked_author. (Thanks, Todd Warner, for the ping!)
• updated RSS template and code to support RSS feeds for comments on individual posts. An RSS feed for all comments, site-wide, is yet to come.

trackback and xmlrpc_pingback

• these are no longer subjected to comment_reject filtering plugins. a new callback, trackback_reject, has been added for filtering trackbacks. (Thanks Junji Nakanishi!)

moinmoin

• now compatible with MoinMoin 1.5 as well as 1.0. (Thanks Zarick Lau!)

editfile

• fixed to search the environment for editors. (Thanks Mako!)

rst

• fixed two bugs that prevented the plugin from working. (Thanks g2boojum!)