Cotonti combines the flexibility of a web framework with the rapid deployability and featureset of a content management system. Despite having features such as user accounts, content creation, file management and community tools out of the box, it can be easily extended using modules or plugins. Cotonti is powered by its own template engine which is both fast and easy to learn, even if you are not an experienced programmer.
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Cotonti Team is proud to present you a massive update of Siena branch. The most important changes include:
By now we have implemented all the major features we originally planned for our 1.0 release. This means that no major changes and no changes in the APIs will be performed in 0.9.x branch anymore. Starting with 0.9.5 all the changes will be aimed at stability, usability and performance enhancement. This also means that plugin and theme developers can do what they want without worrying about upcoming updates: their plugins and themes will work even on Cotonti 1.0.x without changes.
Visit the release page to try it out or for more information.
Are you missing your beloved Cotonti Genoa / Seditio / LDU plugins in Cotonti Siena? Chin up! Go and add them to our Genoa to Siena Wishlist. If the plugin has functionality which has not been covered yet, then it will participate in the Plugin Conversion Campaign. You can also Donate to support this campaign.
Are you a plugin developer? Help us to convert those plugins and earn money! We will give you $5-15 for each converted plugin from that topic (if confirmed as useful for conversion and not redundant) and even for each plugin which is not in the list but is still useful in Cotonti Siena. The procedure is simple: pick a plugin from the Wishlist topic, and make a post that you are converting that plugin. When you are done, post a link to your results. If the person who originally requested the plugin confirms that the plugin works fine, then you will get the money when the campaign is over. The actual sum ($5, $10 or $15) depends on how difficult the plugin is. The more plugins you convert, the more money you get at the end of the campaign.
The campaign has already started, developers who have already converted plugins in that topic will get money for them! All the conversions should be done and confirmed as completed until September 15th.
If you need more information about the conversion process, please read this guide.
More good news: we have enabled "Thank you" system on this site, so members can thank each other for useful articles, add-ons and replies on forums. Don't hesitate to thank somebody who helps you. People who get thanked often and provide good support and feedback will be given bonuses, either with money or with upgraded privileges. Scammers will be sacked.
Even more good news: we have enabled internationalization on this site, the interface is currently available in 3 languages and will be available in more. Translations of the documentation can be contributed as well, we have added a few Russian translations so far.
I'm glad to inform you that Cotonti Team has just moved the Development area of the project to GitHub, the next generation project hosting and social coding platform.
What benefits does it give to the Cotonti community? Here they are:
What about the old good Trac and SVN? They will stay online in read-only mode for several months more to let the people grab necessary stuff from there if needed.
Another reason to move plugin/module development to separate Git repositories is that when the Cotonti Extension Center will be launched, it will use public Git information to provide automatic packaging, updates and extension listing.
We wish you enjoy Summertime. To make it even better give a new Cotonti Siena 0.9.3 release a try. What's new:
For more information please visit the release page.
Important notice for developers and contributors: we are moving the repository and project management to Github. Please inform us of your Github account as soon as possible!
This site has been moved to a faster server. Google Site Performance analyzer says it now loads faster than 95% of sites on the web. Nice results reinforced by Siena's JS/CSS consolidator tool.
Oh, the updates! Genoa site owners should update their sites to 0.6.17, the patch is really small but won't hurt applying. Siena enthusiasts, head to 0.9.2 - this is a bugfixing update, but a very important one. We apologize for 0.9.1 which had some bugs which made it harder to use than 0.9.0, so we have solved those problems in 0.9.2 and you can have more fun with Siena now!
Community updates include our new Twitter page. Besides the official announcements it also tracks links to useful articles, so follow us there! Another important thing is that we are going to launch a plugin conversion campaign soon and so far we have opened a Wishlist for future conversions.
The following month probably won't bring many major features to the engine, but we plan several helpful community actions, including rewards for support, relaunch of donations and of course the plugin conversion campaign.
