All posts in the topic GroupServer 1.0 Beta

Jun 16 03:37 UTC

I am delighted to announce the release of GroupServer 1.0β, Semifreddo as a
Late Night Snack. Semifreddo has most of the main features working, and most of
the known problems resolved. Semifreddo powers all of OnlineGroups.Net's live
sites,
  http://groupserver.org/groupserver/sites/
and is available for free download.
  http://groupserver.org/downloads/

We are closer than ever to our goals of providing a mailing list manager with
an integrated web interface like Google Groups, and the administrative freedom
that you get with open source MLMs like Mailman. We think GroupServer compares
pretty well with both Mailman and Google Groups.
  http://groupserver.org/groupserver/features/
We'd love to hear what you think about that.
  <email obscured>

Here is a summary of changes since the last release.

- All of the serious problems have been solved (plenty of less serious ones
remain, of course).

- The new user registration process has been streamlined to improve usability.
  http://groupserver.org/r/post/7jc60p4jCcYc2NzlJKJgWC

- The system for inviting group members to join group has been completely
overhauled.
  http://groupserver.org/r/post/7cGhVMkUckhPudIrcmyb5Z

- The installation process, using Buildout, has been smoothed out and
documented.
  http://groupserver.org/downloads/install/

- The display of posted images in the web interface has been improved, to
provide thumbnails, and a browseable image gallery.
  http://groupserver.org/r/post/WVfuwiR4ighCPR2Dwe852

- The web posting UI now shows users exactly who will be able to see their
post.
  http://groupserver.org/r/topic/46y9ifDVRTBc6vxf5nWEdK

- Auditing has been added to a number of interfaces so that actions such as
logging in, and setting a password are logged.

- The content management system, using http://www.wymeditor.org, has been
improved, and now supports permissions and version-management.
  http://groupserver.org/r/topic/5q1BxifW5i0Y7vCq0GLIzv

- Email addresses are now disguised in the web interface for topics.

- A great many small enhancements have been made, and an even greater number of
small bugs have been fixed.

- The GroupServer code repository has been moved to Mercurial. The code is now
supplied from a repository of Python "eggs", to help maintain your GroupServer
installation in an incremental fashion. Occasional Zope-side changes will need
to be manually deployed.

As always, we invite you to download
  http://groupserver.org/downloads/
and install
  http://groupserver.org/downloads/install
GroupServer, to ask questions about GroupServer Administration,
  http://groupserver.org/groups/groupserver_admin
to participate in development
  http://groupserver.org/groupserver/development/
or simply to let us know your feedback.
  <email obscured>