Great work by @steffenvanbergerem to clear the last two blockers. Thanks!
Yeah, we should now be able to release soon.
I listed the most important change in the pad and started to write some articles on my blog about the release. Goob already translated the privacy one, I think it would be nice to publish it on the foundation blog once itās formal enough. @jhass @steffenvanbergerem @dennisschubert mind to review it to be sure I donāt say bullshit from a technical point of view?
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/milestones/0.5.0.0
Bummer, we couldnāt find anything
w00t \o/
Great work everyone!!!
Now Iām really excited :))
I realised last night that weāre coming up to 5 years since the Kickstarter campaign, and thought it would be nice to tie in the release to that if possible.
Iāve just checked and the Kickstarter campaign was opened on 24 April 2010, five years ago today. It ended on 2 June, which is perhaps later than we want to wait to release 0.5. But if we can tie it in somehow, it would be good, I think, for publicity.
It would be great to get a blog post out today, but I donāt really feel I have energy to do this at the moment. Anyone else? @flaburgan, @jasonrobinson?
Well to be honest I really donāt know how to present the diaspora Inc period of the project. @deadsuperhero was working on an history blogpost during a time. Iām not sure what we should say, the result of the beginning of the project is clearly mitigated and I donāt think Iām the one who should look back and draw an overview of what happened.
I donāt think we have to present a potted history (although that would be interesting too). I think a simply āIt all started 5 years ago, and this is where we are now, with 0.5 coming outā - as much as anything, to jog the memories of journalists and bloggers who got excited about the project 5 years ago and have since forgotten about it.
Iāll see if I can do something later, but Iām not feeling great today.
Hereās a very rough first draft:
It all started 5 years ago today
Yes, it was on April 24 2010 that four kids from New York University, Maxwell Salzberg, Dan Grippi, Ilya Zhitomirsky and Raphael Sofaer, launched a campaign on the then young Kickstarter platform, asking for $10,000 to fund them for a summer project to create a decentralized social network. The campaign went viral, and 40 days later more than $200,000 had been pledged, and diaspora* was born.
Since then itās been a long road with a lot of hurdles, technical and otherwise, in realising this initial vision, but the project has remained vibrant and growing throughout that time, and the community is still working to achieve a decentralized network which gives users flexibility while guarding their privacy.
The project, now owned by its community members, is about to make another major release, version 0.5.0.0, including big features such as chat among many bug fixes and performance improvements. Keep your eyes open for this release, which will be announced very soon.
Iām not very happy with it, but if anyone wants to use it as a basis to write something worth posting, that would be great.
Not sure about āKidsā Students I guess? And the chat is not really ready, we present it as alpha, I donāt think we should promote it that much here. Apart from that, nice paper
Ok, so what happens now in terms of making 0.5.0.0-FINAL a reality?
@Rich for the code, to test again the migration in a mysql database now that the encoding change is done differently. This could also be tested on a postgreSQL db.
We also need to prepare the announcement, and to create a better āHow to upgradeā page. The RC showed us that the instruction was too confusing.
This could also be tested on a postgreSQL db.
Ehm. Nope. The migration only runs on MySQL.
test again the migration in a mysql database
Is someone doing this? If not, I can do this later in the week if it will help.
I threw a first version up at https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Updating
Feel free to edit it in case I missed anything.
Awesome Jonne, thanks. I just reinstalled my laptop with Ubuntu 15.04 released this week-end, so I will first install diaspora 0.4 on it, and then do the upgrade, so Iāll be sure everything is done
Ok, Iāve run this migration again on MySQL today and I donāt know whatās changed but the migration time went down from 1351s to just 271s for a 1.6GB database!
Thatās 22mins down to just 4mins :o
Awesome! Did you try to use the DB after the migration? Everything is fine?
I forgot the custom splash page gets trashed Maybe include a mention of this in the updated guide from @jhass ?
Otherwise, no issues to report, migration from 0.4.1.3 to 0.5.0.0-RC went fine!