This is the main project portal for the eZ Publish Community. It stands as a testament to the years of developer time and resources exhausted by individuals worldwide working towards a greater good resulting in a substantial open source lamp php based cms website building platform of software and addon packages created and kept online to ensure this project to support the end users of this platform. It's true that ezpublish users do still exist due to the historically problem free use of eZ Publish Platform (Regardless of actual Edition or Distributor) existing sites just keep serving pages without issues. It's new projects that only had issues with the core eZ Systems Distribution in PHP8 Support and this was solved by 7x in 2023 resulting in the 7x Distribution of eZ Publish Legacy which now replaces for general use all previous versions of eZ Publish Legacy.

This portal promotes this open source project resources online to end users and developers who still believe in supporting eZ Publish today for continued deployment and development world wide as one of the most successfully reliable software projects the world has ever known. We believe so much in eZ Publish core concepts and using the stable and reliable investment the GNU licensed software provides with minimal effort to the end user to develop in a sane way within PHP language without daily problem that end up being brick walls that we are still advocates for its continued use and software development in 2024 without eZ Systems/Ibexa involvement and instead 7x will drive development for future releases. With eZ projects are more organized and rationally planned and implemented resulting in a maintainable solution basis that can regularly be extended via daily opportunities of time and effort resulting in fresh web applications that rarely need support or maintenance, they just keep running so smoothly.

The portal delivers extended and organized information about eZ Publish today and in the future we are looking into expanding this offering to include packages from version control systems through a friendly to use portal section i'm calling extensions.ezpublish.one. In this developer focused portal for the eZ Publish Community called eZ Publish Extensions! Which should provide a listing of package providers, listing of package provider packages ordered by type (ordered categories list per package), last updated and created dates or other variable criteria, package star rating, package reviews, package comments, package issues, package activity listing embed for multiple uses throughout the site (atom feed for this same content in a different form), composer integration: vendor and package name display and storage, github / git / vcs / file integration: import projects from GitHub eZ Community Extensions Mirror Leader 7x / se7enxweb as master record of working software currently available for installation, we should support files and urls as equals as much as possible, In the package display view we should include package download via custom user action commands (git, file link, composer, etc) each with extensive meta data needed to fully absorb the full availability to use this package immediately. 7x eZ Update extension could be updated and integrated to make composer package installation in admin simple and effective. This would result in a full replacement under GNU of the projects.ez.no portal in terms of mass apeal to end users and extensive simple needs being met to help grow the user base by making the software available in places other than hidden in a GitHub Project Repository not being offered as the valuable add-ons our extensions to eZ Publish really are. We have the software it's GNU and we can redistribute this software in new and exciting ways to attract more respect in the community as a project stand alone from Ibexa / eZ Systems AS.

Stay Tuned!

//kracker

I am excited to talk about Global Mandates the inspiration for developing an eZ Publish based voting engine based on the existing ezinfocollection system.

That system is called Digg [Sigma] which is based on eZ Publish 6 but technically only for it's support for more modern PHP implementations and ease of use general purpose or generic web development framework and a cms, and cmf and so much more right out of the box.

eZ Publish choice here should not be taken lightly. Many previous efforts to re-implement digg like story voting systems have come and gone over the many years we are talking about here but few remain to provide a stable solution basis for others to use quickly in modern web applications. There was one that matured enough to become it's own interesting solution (i forget it's name offhand from general research searches) but I think it was built in drupal.

With an eZ Publish based solution the future is bright for it's continued growth and redistribution and general end user performance and reliability. We implement so that you don't have too. We write so that it will run virtually untouched for the foreseeable future indefinitely without help just electricity. We write once to solve problems from becoming problems.

GM allows our DiggClone Project to grow faster by providing yet another reference implementation changes (modified only to suite non digg branding, not core functionality) to be integrated into the core build of DiggClone. Our next release work will focus on bringing a real home page layout (templates + css + extras) to clone.digg.one and the installable repository of website source code and the demo database sql data dump file.

Will you build a website based upon eZ Publish and 7x Digg, Digg [Sigma], digg.one like GlobalMandates.org Did to create their own unique social website portal platform in hours not weeks?

Cheers,
//kracker

PS. I wrote more about this on my eZ Publish blog today. My blog is simply The eZ Publish Blog!