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  • Adrian Rossouw
    Aug 25, 2010
    Announcing aegirproject.org!
    Aegir's new home, release updates, and DrupalCon
    The Aegir Project has just launched its new home - aegirproject.org. Right now this site is just a placeholder, but we'd like to turn this space into a resource for documentation, release announcements, and community discussion. We'd love to hear...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Aug 4, 2010
    7 comments
    Aegir 0.4 Alpha 9 Is Out, Bringing Multi-Server Support to Aegir
    A look at the latest Aegir release and what's coming before a stable 0.4
    The Aegir project just released Aegir 0.4 alpha 9 and with it comes some exciting new features. The biggest, and which I previously wrote about, is multi-server support, meaning that Aegir now can host websites on any number of web or database...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Jul 6, 2010
    12 comments
    Aegir Support for Multi-Server Site Deployment and Management for Drupal
    Summary of the architecture changes that will be in the next release of Aegir
    The next Aegir release will enable managing sites across multiple servers. This means that you no longer need to have Aegir on the same box as your site, and you can even migrate your sites between servers. Big sites can now also be spread across...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Mar 10, 2010
    12 comments
    Drush 3.0: More Powerful, Flexible, and Magical
    Some examples of what you can do with the latest Drush
    Over the last few years Drush has matured significantly and has seen an incredible uptake in usage. It's become indispensable in the day to day workflow of innumerable Drupal users and has been accepted with open arms by contributed module...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Mar 1, 2010
    3 comments
    Aegir 0.4 Alpha 6 Released with New and Improved Multi-Server Site Provisioning
    Details on the latest release of Aegir and what it will allow you to do
    The Aegir development team has just released our latest piece of tech out onto the world. Aegir 0.4 Alpha 6 is the first major step in a series of milestones reaching toward the goals we have for 0.4. The biggest change in this release is that Aegir...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Feb 26, 2010
    3 comments
    Focusing on Exportables + Features, Aggregation + Feeds, Open Atrium, and the Aegir Hosting System
    We are sharing our latest work @DrupalconSF - vote for the sessions you would like to see
    Our presentation proposals this year for DrupalCon SF focus on the processes and tools we use in our products like Open Atrium and Managing News. A lot has moved in the last six months. Here is a run down of what we are planning on sharing. If you...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Feb 2, 2010
    5 comments
    New Release: Aegir 0.4 Alpha 5
    Details on the new Aegir alpha release, how to install it, and what's coming next
    Last week the Aegir project released the latest alpha in the 0.4 release cycle. The most important features of this release are compatibility oriented, and we now have working support for Drupal 7 installs and upgrades, as well as support for...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Nov 22, 2009
    8 comments
    Aegir Hosting System Moves to Git
    To better meet its unique revision control needs, the Aegir Project goes Git
    Originally announced a few months ago alongside the 0.3 release, the Aegir project is in the process of finalizing its migration to git for our revision control needs. For the last few releases, several of our developers have actually been using git...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    Oct 27, 2009
    4 comments
    Drupal Distributions with Drush Make
    Making it easier to build and release Drupal applications
    Last week we released Managing News, a news and data aggregation engine that's built on Drupal. This is the second Drupal-based product we've released, and we did something different with this one - we used Drush Make. When you release a product,...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Oct 25, 2009
    4 comments
    Aegir 0.4: A New UI and Progress Update
    User experience is very important to us
    This is a followup to the roadmap for the next few alpha releases of the Aegir Hosting System for Drupal. As you are seeing, it is working out really well for us to treat each alpha release as a proper release of its own and focus on one of our...