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The usual semi-regular bits of news from the FusionForge project. We continue being quite active, with several hundred commits each month. The momentum doesn't seem to stop even after the 5.0 release last month. A large part of the activity stems from the Coclico project, which has several work-packages related to convergence of code across forges (mostly between FusionForge and Codendi). This convergence comes in three flavours:

• some new features are developed in common for both forges; as an example, the Mailman and ForumML plugins recently committed can now run unmodified in FusionForge and in Codendi (or at least that's the goal);
• some features existing only on the Codendi side are ported across to FusionForge; this includes the Codendi “widgets” system, which allow drag-and-drop customization of some of the web pages, and the Hudson plugin;
• finally, some of the core code is rewritten so that a common API and abstract data model can be used by higher-level pieces of code; the configuration system has been almost completely converted to a simple API, and the role-based access control system has also been rewritten into a clean model that extends both FusionForge's previous RBAC system and Codendi's, so each forge will provide new features for access control (the immediate gain for FusionForge is the ability to grant different permissions to anonymous visitors and to visitors that are logged in even if not members of the current project).

All in all, a fairly busy period for FusionForge. The current trunk is evolving rather fast, with some long-overdue rewrites being underway. Interesting times.