[Zope-Annce] Kupu 1.0.3 released

Philipp von Weitershausen philikon at philikon.de
Thu Apr 1 08:19:59 EST 2004


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Kupu 1.0.3 Released
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1 April 2004

As of now, the in-browser WYSIWYG editor formerly known as epozNG has a 
new name: Kupu! Even though it was never the intention, the Epoz WYSIWYG 
editor development had split in 2 branches, confusing both developers 
and users. Hopefully the new name settles this confusion.

What is Kupu?
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Kupu is a client-side JavaScript What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) 
editor. It works in both Mozilla and Internet Explorer based browsers 
(including Netscape 7) and produces well-formed XHTML. Kupu is object 
oriented and designed to be customizable and extendable.

The Past
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Last year, a small team of developers started working on a full rewrite 
of the Epoz product written by Maik Jablonski, with the objective to 
provide a WYSIWYG editor for Infrae's document management system Silva 
[2]. Maik wasn't interested in continuing development of his version and 
didn't join the team in the rewrite, but he was fine with the team using 
the name. However, consequent bugfixes and enhancements, mostly coming 
from Plone [3], still went into the old Epoz, leaving us with two 
actively developed versions. This led to much confusion.

In January 2004, Michael Wechner, president of OSCOM (Open Source 
Content Management) [4] proposed to make epozNG an official OSCOM 
project. This proposal was welcomed by the development team. As part of 
the move to OSCOM, it was agreed to change epozNG's name to end the 
confusion, and to change the license from ZPL to something less 
Zope-specific, BSD.

After two months of brainstorming and endless name suggestions, the team 
finally decided. Thanks to Eric Casteleijn for "Kupu". Kupu is Maori and 
means "word, statement, remark".

The Present
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A new name, a new license, a new website [1], and it's time for a new 
release. Since epozNG left off at 1.0.2, the first Kupu release is 
1.0.3. It's not a major release, mainly containing small bugfixes, but 
it's a milestone.

The Future
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The future of Kupu seems bright. Currently it provides a host of 
features for a WYSIWYG editor, and works in both IE and Mozilla based 
browsers. We intend to continue in that direction.

The Kupu developers focus on standards and high quality code as well as 
new technologies. We plan to steadily improve Kupu, and bring it to 
maturity without losing its clean design and comprehensible codebase.

Thanks to
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- Michael Wechner and OSCOM for providing a new home
- Holger Krekel and Codespeak for the invaluable support
- Infrae for support
- The guys at ETH Zürich for inspiration
- Eric for "Kupu"
- Manos Batsis for Sarissa and for letting us distribute it under
   the Kupu License
- Henri Bergie for setting us up with http://kupu.oscom.org
- Jan Smith for testing and finding bugs

On behalf of the Kupu Contributors
Guido Wesdorp, Philipp von Weitershausen, Paul Everitt


Links
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[1] http://kupu.oscom.org
[2] http://www.infrae.com/products/silva
[3] http://plone.org
[4] http://oscom.org





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