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Mark Carey from MT Hacks has released yet another useful plugin - the SelectiveCloner under a GPL license.
SelectiveCloner bridges a gap left by the "Cloner" plugin that ships with MT, as SelectiveCloner allows you to make a carbon copy of a blog's settings, templates and permissions WITHOUT content. If you want to rollout multiple blogs with the same look and feel Carey's latest release should save you quite a bit of time.
More information on his site.
SelectiveCloner bridges a gap left by the "Cloner" plugin that ships with MT, as SelectiveCloner allows you to make a carbon copy of a blog's settings, templates and permissions WITHOUT content. If you want to rollout multiple blogs with the same look and feel Carey's latest release should save you quite a bit of time.
More information on his site.
While the new licensing model for Movable Type is a LOT easier to understand it's not without it's complications.On the download page there is a basic license overview, but it still leads to confusion!
There are now 4 versions and 3 products, which seem to be as follows:
- Movable Type - license now open source and suited to "hackers" and developers who want to get "down and dirty" with the code.
- Movable Type Pro, which has two licenses
- Blogger - covers just about anyone that is not an incorporated company (ltd, llc etc.,)
- Business - any incorporated business entity
- Movable Type Enterprise - for big business. Its main "upsell" would appear to be support for database engines such as Oracle and MS SQL server. Obviously the Enterprise version also comes with support options and fees.
So, in essence, you can opt for MT Pro even if you are making a fortune from affiliate advertising etc., as long as you aren't an incorporated entity.
That's pretty cool, as some of the community solution parts of the MT platform really negate the need for any other backend when building out a community site.
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The guys over in SixApart have made available a "roadmap" for MT open source ie. the open source MovableType
The next release - codename Cal - will hopefully make templating that bit easier for novices, as they are "flattening" the template sets significantly.
Of course there are plenty of other enhancements and improvements planned, but making the templates more accessible to first-time users wanting to move to MT from other platforms is probably being treated with a higher level of priority.
The next release - codename Cal - will hopefully make templating that bit easier for novices, as they are "flattening" the template sets significantly.
Of course there are plenty of other enhancements and improvements planned, but making the templates more accessible to first-time users wanting to move to MT from other platforms is probably being treated with a higher level of priority.
MovableType open source is now available in the Debian (sid) unstable repositories.
The first stable release of Movable Type Open Source was released a few days ago. Apologies for not posting earlier, but I was away on business!
You can get a copy here
There are a few minor differences between the open source and commercial versions, but they won't affect the majority of users - the key is technical support and a couple of extras that are only available to commercial license holders.
Of course the other advantage to the open source version is that you can have unlimited authors, blogs etc.,
(This site runs on a commercial license)
Byrne Reese, MT's product manager, posted the following to the MTOS developer list:
You can get a copy here
There are a few minor differences between the open source and commercial versions, but they won't affect the majority of users - the key is technical support and a couple of extras that are only available to commercial license holders.
Of course the other advantage to the open source version is that you can have unlimited authors, blogs etc.,
(This site runs on a commercial license)
Byrne Reese, MT's product manager, posted the following to the MTOS developer list:
To keep everyone up to date, I have been working on the website all morningWhat that means in essence is that MovableType.org will be focussing on the open source product, while the .com (MovableType.com) will focus on the commercial release.
to clean it up and orient it more around the MTOS project as opposed to the
commercial product.
Up until now there has always been a little tension regarding how to best
serve the MT user community on the .org site, because many users visiting
the site were simply wanting to download MT for free, and the best thing we
could direct them to was a stable, but closed source version. That in my
mind was unavoidable but it was something other OS advocates (not MT users
necessarily) noticed as well [7].
Now that we finally have a stable MTOS release, the mt.org site I think will
gain greater focus and conflict less with it's movabletype.com counterpart,
as was always the plan.
I would like to say that it is my wish to keep movabletype.org focused on
the open source and community driven efforts (plugins, styles, articles,
news, etc) as much as humanly possible. That is my commitment to the MTOS
community. It may be a challenge at times, but I think as a community we can
learn to strike the balance that feels right to us.
Any open source project needs mailing lists, so it was nice to see that the MTOS development list went live a few minutes ago with an introductory email from Byrne Reese:
Of course there are also forums (running on MT code!) where users can seek help, advice or simply swap tips and tricksI would like to formally welcome everyone to the mtos-dev mailing list. This
morning we officially launched the MTOS Project [1], and made almost all of
the resources necessary to support the developer community waiting to
contribute to the project available for the first time.
My name is Byrne Reese. I am the Product Manager of Movable Type, a
developer myself, and a user of Movable Type for close to 5 years. Movable
Type changed how I managed my content online in such a profound and
fundamental way. It ultimately led me to join the Six Apart team and then to
join the Movable Type team itself. A similar story is likely to be told by
every Six Apart employee.
Anyways, I wanted to introduce myself and welcome everyone else who feels
comfortable doing so and who is interested in participating in the
development process of MTOS to raise their hand and introduce themselves as
well.
I also wanted to provide the members of this mailing list with an overview
of what this list is for and how we initially envision using it. As with all
things online, mailing lists can sometimes take on a life of their own - so
this list is likely to evolve over time. It is not my desire to force this
list into a mold of any kind, but to leave it to the members of the list to
create the type of environment appropriate for all of our needs.
That being said, the goal of this list is to support developers actively
working on the MTOS code base. This list is also meant to serve as the means
by which we as a community can review and give each other feedback on the
contributions we want to make to the core product. More details about this
process can be found on the MTOS web site [2].
Finally, a brief status update: the launch of MTOS was a larger endeavor
then we had originally planned. As a result, not all of our I's are dotted
and T's crossed. You can find the latest information of where we are as a
community on the MTOS Status page [3]. I welcome people to check that out. I
keep it as up to date as possible, updating several times a day as
necessary.
That is all I wanted to say as an introduction. Again, welcome everyone to
this exciting new day for Movable Type and its community. I could not be
happier with the work the team and community has done so far, nor could I be
more optimistic about the future of Movable Type!
Sincerely,
Byrne Reese
Developer, Fan, Product Manager
Movable Type
[1] http://www.movabletype.org/2007/12/movable_type_open_source.html
[2] http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/contributions.html
[3] http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/status.html
Byrne Reese from Sixapart announced that MTOS went live about an hour or so ago!
Nightly builds will be available via SVN and mailing / discussion lists should be up and running within the next 24 hours.
More details will follow as soon as they are made available
Nightly builds will be available via SVN and mailing / discussion lists should be up and running within the next 24 hours.
More details will follow as soon as they are made available
Apologies for the lack of activity over the past few weeks. Work has been incredibly busy, so I haven't had either the time or the energy to devote to covering developments within the wonderful world of Movable Type.
On a sidenote, if anyone would like to contribute to this blog I would be more than happy to give them an author account.
Moving on ....
One of the big things that SixApart has been talking about over the last few months is the Open Source version of Movable Type. While a lot of people may get confused by what it will or won't include only the people closest to the project can really know. Fortunately SixApart don't have any issues in communicating with their user and developer community and hold conference calls with them on a regular basis. While I wasn't able to attend the conference call today Timothy Appnel has shared his notes from it online - and it sounds quite exciting!
The highlights are as follows:
On a sidenote, if anyone would like to contribute to this blog I would be more than happy to give them an author account.
Moving on ....
One of the big things that SixApart has been talking about over the last few months is the Open Source version of Movable Type. While a lot of people may get confused by what it will or won't include only the people closest to the project can really know. Fortunately SixApart don't have any issues in communicating with their user and developer community and hold conference calls with them on a regular basis. While I wasn't able to attend the conference call today Timothy Appnel has shared his notes from it online - and it sounds quite exciting!
The highlights are as follows:
- MT 4.1 beta to be released next week
- MTOS to be released at the same time
