1. Django Forum and Wiki application

Sphene Community Tools currently consist of two full-featured django applications meant to be as pluggable as possible so they can be easily integrated into any django project:

• Community - The base for the other modules. Provides generic functionality like login/logout and user profiles.

• Wiki - Easily manage content on your Website using a simple markup language.

• Forum Application / Message Board - Build a community in hierarchical forum categories, including sticky threads, polls, permission system (anonymous posts using captchas), and more Freestyle.

  • The forum can easily be extended using "category types" making it perfect for many types of user submitted content. Two examples are the Blog and LinkList applications.

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2. News

• 2010-01-06 17:55:09: Sphene Community Tools Version 0.6 Released!
  SCT 0.6 has been released and contains many improvements to the django forum as well as many bugfixes and additional translations.
  
  Forum improvements include support for quick reply, moving of individual posts instead of the whole thread and nice sluggified URLs for threads.
  
  See the Changelog for more details or grab this version from the Downloads section.

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• 2009-12-20 16:34:23: New server, new luck ...
  Because of a hard drive failure i had to move the website and subversion repository. (This was the reason for the ~2 day down time ). Anyway, now everything should be up and running again - the subversion repository has moved to http://source.sphene.net/svn/root/django/communitytools/ (although the old URL will simply do a 301 redirect, so if you checked out from the old URL, it is still valid).
  
  For committers: For those who had commit rights (ie. shell accounts) - i had no backup of those just mail me and i will recreate them.

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• 2009-08-06 00:07:28: Sphene Community Tools 0.6 Release Candidate 1
  As promised I have prepared a SCT 0.6 release. Now it is time for testing and it would be nice if any of you could help me with that!
  
  Either download the release candidate or update to the latest trunk and test with your setup and django 1.1 or later. (Or test by going through the basic Tutorial or the CommunityDraft installation).
  
  You might also try having your groupName in the URL - this requires the new setting: SPH_SETTINGS['community_groups_in_url'] = True (it is still not documented, I'm working on it ). For a list of changes check the Issue Tracker for now (I haven't had time yet to update the Changelog).
  
  

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• 2009-07-16 09:10:12: Status and Future of SCT
  Lately i had a bit less time for SCT so development and response in the forum has slowed down a bit. But since reports are increasing about problems with setup and especially URL lookups, I plan to get a new release out ASAP, since it has been a while since SCT 0.5 was released and there are already a couple of fixes in the trunk which should get out.
  
  So here is my plan:
  
  

  • 0.6 - As soon as in 2 weeks: should contain all bugfixes and features in the current trunk (obviously) - the only thing left to do is stabilize everything (especially the new ability to have the groupName in the URL instead of the hostname. - it should be compatible with the latest django trunk and django 1.1 beta release (if there is a difference) - if people would test it against 1.0.2 - even better
    
  • 0.9 - In 3-4 months: The most important thing for me right now is the WYSIWYG editor for the wiki and forum with features like image resizing, including of attachments, etc. It should also contain further stabilizing, cleanup (no dependency between the wiki and the forum) as well as easier installation and integration. (I still have to think about a way to convert an existing forum/wiki to a WYSIWYG forum/wiki - any ideas? )
    
  • 1.0 - Once the featureset of 0.9 has been proven to work, i will bump it to 1.0
    

  
  
  In addition to this, the documentation has to be improved and adopted for the latest version.
  
  Please let me know what you think about this plan, what your current problems are when using SCT, and if you would be willing to contribute time and code. Either testing, writing documentation or providing code patches would significantly help me obviously
  (Even providing feedback helps to motivate me to invest more time into SCT)
  
  If you would be interested to help, but don't know how just leave a comment or write me an email.
  
  --- Last Edited by Herbert Poul at 2009-07-16 09:11:05 ---

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• 2009-02-06 21:55:57: Experimental WYSIWYG editor for the forum is now in SVN trunk !
  Thanks to the great work of lootgoal there is now a WYSIWYG editor for SCT forum posts! It is still deactivated by default, but i would appreciate testers and feedback!
  
  Feel free to test it out in the Sandbox forum! (Simply appending the GET parameter 'wysiwyg=1' enables it)
  
  

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3. Applications

Currently it consists of the following Applications:

• Community - Defines basically only models and template tags which are used within Sphene Community Tools itself..
• Board - Django Forum software with recursive categories, BBCode support, etc.
• Wiki - Currently very simple django wiki based on the Markdown markup. (Currently very limited)
• LinkList - Very basic linklist based on the Board application.