Back up and runningby kenmclean ()You might have noticed we've had some extended website downtime. A few things went wrong which required a website rebuild, and due to time constraints we put it on the backburner in favour of developing our other applications. So the website is back, rebuilt on a Drupal platform. Drupal is a nice and flexible content management system that -- like Retromod -- can be extended through addon modules. This allows us to do several new things: Firstly we're using the Launchpad OpenID modules. This means if you have an account over at Launchpad.net, which is where we do all our bug tracking and project management, you can log into Bentokit.org. Secondly we're running the Drupal project modules which allows us to list currently active software projects and addon components to existing projects such as Retromod. Finally we've added a documentation wiki into the website so that anyone can contribute knowledge to the community. Why is all this useful? Well say you're a developer and you decide to build a podcast management component for Retromod. You can create a login and register the project at Launchpad then get busy making it. Once it works and you want to share the addon with the rest of the community you can login to the Bentokit website with that same login and contact us. Tell us about your contribution and we'll register it as a project on the Bentokit site, giving you the access and control over the project page. You can provide others in your development team with the same access based purely upon your team members in Launchpad. You can then contribute any documentation to the docs wiki for others to read. More updates soon. Cheers Ken |