New website announcement

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As I've posted a couple of days ago on the blog, Invenzzia Group begins a resurrection and restructurization process. One of the primary tasks is rebuilding the entier Invenzzia website. Here you can find a proposal of the new content organization.

Website

The official website will be run on Diem CMS. It is currently being finished by eXtreme, and we plan to run it in February. The goal is to make the access to the project information much easier, and cleaner. There will be still an article section with tutorials, etc.

Blog

Blog will stay, and will go through a refreshment. No decisions about Polish version have been made so far, but the practice shows that translating everything is somewhat difficult and it is probable that we will keep maintaining the English version only.

Code repository

As we have moved to Github in June 2010, SVN repositories are no longer necessary. The repository hosting is now on Github, and svn.invenzzia.org will be shutdown by the end of February 2011. If you are linking to these repositories through svn:externals, please be aware that they will stop working after that date.

Bugtracker

Flyspray seems to be no longer maintained, and there is no good PHP-based replacement for it. Because Github offers a nice issue tracker, we decided to shutdown bugs.invenzzia.org by the end of January 2011.

Wiki

Lack of interest in maintaining it. It will be shutdown at the end of February 2011. However, if an appropriate need will appear in the future, the wiki hosting can be run on Github, too.

Downloads

Will be still maintained, basically under the same address: http://static.invenzzia.org/files/. However, it is rather sure that we will start grouping the packages, because the number of files has grown up.

Documentations

Documentation viewer will be available as a new subdomain docs.invenzzia.org. It will look almost exactly the same, as the current version.

PEAR Channel

In February, we plan to run a regular PEAR2 channel on pear.invenzzia.org. It will simplify installing the packages via Pyrus. This step requires a number of preparations on our side, and reconfigure our build environment.

Forums

The forums will be still maintained, under the same address and with the same discussion board system. However, the board organization will change. The current, initial proposal looks like this:

* Invenzzia
   - Announcements
     Invenzzia announcements, version announcements. A reply-only forum.
   - General discussions
     General discussions about Invenzzia and open-source development.
   - Website and forum
     Discussions about the website and forum.
   - KnowHow & Toolset
     Discussions about the Invenzzia project development/management know-how and the toolset with various utility tools, which are being publicly released.
* Typical Invenzzia project (a separate category for every bigger project)
   - Development
     Development discussions take place here.
   - Feature requests
     A place for reporting feature requests.
   - Support
     Support with problems concerning the project.
   - Integration (if necessary)
     Support for integration with third party tools, libraries and components.
   - Plugins
     Community forum for discussing about plugins, plugin announcements, etc.
* National forums
   - Polish
     Discussions in Polish language.

Summary
 - We run a new website
 - We shut down wiki, bugs and svn
 - We open docs and pear
 - We reorganize the forums.
 - Bugtracker and code repository are now on Github.