[MTOS-dev] Movable Type Open Source 4.1 Stable Released

[Bud Gibson]

Byrne,

You've really done a lot of work here to make this happen, and you've done a
first class job.

Thanks for making this happen,

Bud

PS  I'll go back to complaining about things I can't get to work tomorrow.

On Jan 24, 2008 6:16 PM, Byrne Reese <byrne at sixapart.com> wrote:

> It is a great, great day everyone: MTOS 4.1 stable has been released!
>
> The folks on this list have helped the product greatly. In going through
> the
> change log for MTOS, it was great to see how many contributions came from
> the community, and rewarding to see open source pay off in that respect.
>
> To keep everyone up to date, I have been working on the website all
> morning
> 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.comcounterpart,
> 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.
>
> A number of changes to the website have been made and are listed below:
>
> * We now link directly to MTOS 4.1 zip file - no license agreement to
> accept
> * We created a new download page for MTOS [1]
> * We archived the beta page now that it has concluded. [2]
> * The What's New page has been updated [3]
> * Updated the MTOS status page with the latest [4]
> * Deployed some new URLS [5,6]
>
> I will soon be emailing the list to begin a conversation around Movable
> Type
> 4.2, if you can believe it!
>
> Happy MTOS Day everyone.
>
> Sincerely,
> Byrne Reese
> Product Manager, MT
>
> [7] http://foolswisdom.com/movable-type-200-open-source/
> [1] http://www.movabletype.org/download.html
> [2] http://www.movabletype.org/beta/
> [3] http://www.movabletype.org/whatsnew/
> [4] http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/status.html
> [5] http://www.getmt.org/
> [6] http://www.getmovabletype.org/
>
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