Gibe 0.11.1 released

14 Jul 2007

Fearing I'd never actually getting around to making a neutral theme to put into my web log project, Gibe, I've now just bundled the BloggingPro theme by DesignDisease into the base release.

I've also bundled the tags plugin for an improved default experience.

And I've removed the custom Google search keyed to my domain.  You know, in case someone actually would like to use it on _their_ site and not mine...

Next release will have "pages" - just generic pages that aren't web log entries, so I can stop maintaining stuff in HTML manually.

And, hopefully, I'll be able to optionally support postmarkup for the editing of posts and pages.  Especially pages - custom postmarkup tags being defined in plugins would be very cool!

And then begins the descent into madness that is creating a from-scratch CMS system for Pylons (maybe using a TurboGears 2 template for Pylons), using the lessons learned from Gibe.  It is going to be called Mazarine (after the Mazarine Blue butterfly).

2 old-style comments

  1. Alaa Salman — August 09, 2007 at 04:26 PM.

    Hello,

    I came across your site while checking out gibe..I will rely back my experience on that later on...

    So i currently use Drupal, and my search for a python based CMS only resulted in Plone which can be quite heavy. I then read about Pagoda which is still a work in progress.

    I am following through with the development of Pagoda and helping in testing when i can. So i wanted to ask you how do you intend to differentiate your CMS from Pagoda? Or possibly what features do you intend to implement?

    Regards,
    Alaa Salman

  2. Neil Blakey-Milner — August 15, 2007 at 08:07 PM.

    I'm very interested in Pagoda, actually. I love what they're doing with regards to their thoughts on versioned localised content, for example.

    Mazarine is progressing really slowly at the moment, since I have a lot of other things on the go. I've got the basics of theming support done (like Drupal, it's like "theme('table', ...)"), and I'm mid-way implementing Pagoda's versioned localised content layout, and then I'll have basic node views working, and then we're away...
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