Converge / News: Recent posts

Converge is among the finalists for the African News Innovation Challenge. By being a finalist we are given the opportunity to attend a TechCamp in Zanzibar, in partnership with the Tech@State program. At the TechCamp we will refine and defend our proposal for the future of Converge in consultation with some of the world’s leading media technology strategists, including experts from the U.K. Guardian’s data team, Mozilla’s OpenNews initiative, Google, previous Knight News Challenge winners, and the World Association of Newspapers.... read more

The sprint for version 1.2.0-B3 has been defined. The sprint is rather short hence the limited issues in the backlog. The main purpose of the sprint is to implement support for automated upload to Joomla and Drupal using PluginActions.

The sprint plan can be found here: http://issues.i2m.dk/projects/converge/roadmap

Major change in 1.2.0-B2 (beta2) includes:

• GlassFish v3 support;
• Workflows for Catalogues (media items); and
• PluginActions and Job Queue (a new way of executing plugins)

Version 1.1.2 is available for download. Changes include:

Bug fixes

Bug #429: Missing caption in media item yields "Field is required"
Bug #430: Number of days to keep is ignored when fetching newswire items
Bug #434: Excessive debug info from the MailNewswireDecoder
Bug #435: Space missing between "Show more..." and "Dismiss all"
Bug #436: Opening the Newswire Item details containing photos fields an HTTP Status 500 error
Bug #437: Add to Catalogue from Photo Newswire not importing images and caption
Bug #439: Media items indexed under 1.0.8 shows Null in the description
Bug #440: Content of documents with extractable text is not indexed... read more

Version 1.1.1 of Converge is ready for release. It contains a handful of bug fixes and improves to the way newswires are processed. After this release we'll start the implementation of Converge 2.0 splitting up the functionality into separate modules (such as Converge Newswire, Converge Editorial, Converge Archive, etc). It also includes migrating from Java Enterprise Edition 5 to Java Enterprise Edition 6.

The current source codes of Converge has been imported to the Mercurial version repository. Some reorganisation is needed for the code to be useful to other developers.