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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the spike in developer activity after the merging of the Monolith admin theme into the Habari trunk (though I kind of regret the tremor reference, given the pain in China). Things have continued apace since then, and Owen has written a great post about what's been happening. Again, none of this would be possible, or anywhere near as interesting, without the great community. A small excerpt.

Since the merge of the Monolith code, there have been 99 commits. That's roughly one commit every three hours for the past two weeks. ... As I write this, we're merging the source for our 100th commit in the past two weeks, which will enable Postgres database support. This makes for three database engines that Habari will officially support - a true, multi-engine package. We've also just added s9y imports, which will be a great way for s9y users to try out Habari by importing their data. I'm looking forward to more importers for other popular blogging packages.

• All The Community That Your Blog Doesn't Have - Asymptomatic

I recommend going and reading the whole thing.

A minor tremor has been sent through the Habari community. First, some background. While many (in the context of the number of people who have tried out this little alpha project so far) have said that Habari's "Create" page is a joy to behold, the wider administration section has been a work in progress for some time. Several times posts were made to the development list with mock ups and discussion but nothing concrete had been put in place. Back in February, Michael Heilemann announced that he had been working on a new design for Habari's administration pages, Monolith. ...

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