Congratulations Brian, and team

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Brian Rosner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey everyone —
>
> On behalf of the Pinax team and all contributors I am happy to announce the
> availability of Pinax 0.9a1. This release sets the bar much higher and we're
> only getting started. This is the first release of the 0.9 development line.
> This alpha includes:
>
> * rebased starter projects for better consistency
> * removed basic_profiles in favor of idios; solving "How do I add more
> fields to the profile?"
> * Pinax is a proper Python package and is installable via pip (no more
> pinax-boot.py)
> * removed mod_python support
> * removed template_utils dependency in core Pinax (didn't need to be there)
> * added new starter projects: zero, account, static and company (with more
> to come)
> * upgraded Django to 1.2 from 1.0
> * use django-mailer 0.2 development releases which include support for
> Django e-mail backends
> * removed PINAX_ROOT sys.path hack in projects (allowing Pinax to avoid
> being leaky)
> * nested group support
> * various improvements to core apps
> * improved password reset
> * replaced django-wikiapp with django-wakawaka
>
> Some TODOs we have on our sights for future releases:
>
> * refactor of friends into separate apps and a new starter project for
> sites with friendship relationships and invitations
> * rebase social project on an upcoming friends project being worked on in
> the
>  friends-refactor branch.
> * improve settings
> * clean up some of the apps in social project that aren't being maintained
> * and much more...
>
> In future releases we'll continue to improve our CHANGELOG providing what
> is new and updating of missing items. There *will* be some documentation
> forth coming about how to migrate from 0.7.X to 0.9, but this work has not
> begun yet. If you are running 0.7.X and would like to upgrade keep in mind
> there are some backwards incompatibilities. You are welcome to start any
> sort of document documenting these as you go and it will help us
> tremendously. Also, don't be shy to ask on the mailing list or in IRC.
>
> A rough timeline without the time for 0.9 is as follows:
>
> * 0.9a2
> * 0.9b1 — hopefully only a single beta
> * 0.9rc1
> * 0.9 final
>
> The recommended approach for getting Pinax is to use pip. Now that it is a
> standard package you can install it however you like, but we do have some
> getting started [1] guidelines for best practices. The downloads [2] page
> will be undergoing some next within the next week to better work with the
> new type of releases along with some new features on pinaxproject.com.
> We'll keep you posted.
>
> If you find bugs please report them on CPC [3] and we'll take a look!
>
> Enjoy!
>
> [1]: http://pinaxproject.com/docs/dev/gettingstarted.html
> [2]: http://pinaxproject.com/download/
> [3]: http://code.pinaxproject.com/
>
> Brian Rosner
> http://oebfare.com
> http://twitter.com/brosner
>
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