Phergie

Luke Fitzgerald AKA darkip posted an update today on his Google Summer of Code project for which he’s building a Phergie plugin to interface with StatusNet. The Phergie team is excited to see his progress, has enjoyed working with him immensely, and appreciates the contributions he’s made back to the Phergie project.

Until now, the main GitHub repository for the Phergie project had been kept under a single user account at http://github.com/elazar/phergie. It has been transferred to an organization on GitHub. The new repo address is ... [More] http://github.com/phergie/phergie. There are a few reasons for this transfer: A new core team will be given merge rights to streamline acceptance [...] [Less]

Anthony Wlodarski has posted an example of an Upstart script he wrote to easily start, stop, and restart Phergie. The script source is open and freely available. Thanks to Anthony for taking the time to write up, publish, and tell us about his blog post on this neat method of controlling Phergie.

The increasingly popular Yii Framework project recently implemented a Phergie bot, which they’ve named YiiBot, in their #yii IRC channel on the Freenode network. One of their developers, tydeas, has made a few appearances in the #phergie channel to ... [More] ask questions and discuss Phergie. He has produced several custom Phergie plugins for use in YiiBot. [...] [Less]

The Developers page now includes a section on unit testing Phergie plugins. Efforts to improve code coverage of the Phergie codebase continue, so if you’d like to help out, find a plugin lacking a unit test suite and write one. If you’re developing your own plugins to contribute back to the project, try to include [...]

Phergie 2.0.4 is now available. You can read about the many bug fixes and new additions in this release on the Changelog page. This release sports significant improvements in stability and unit test code coverage. As always, our thanks go out to all of our users and contributors for their help in making the Phergie [...]

There’s a known issue with the Phergie 2.0.3 release that prevents some events from being processed. This is due to three circumstances: Human error – In an effort to push the release out more quickly to replace the existing Phergie 1.x installation on Freenode with a 2.x instance, this issue was simply overlooked and somehow [...]

My profound apologies for the even longer delay on this release — believe me, I felt it when putting together the changelog for it — but I’m elated to announce that Phergie 2.0.3 is now available. You can read about the many bug fixes and exciting new additions in this release on the Changelog page. With [...]

In an article released today, Developer.com outlined their top 10 PHP projects “pushing the envelope” by using the language in unusual and interesting ways. Phergie made #8 on the list with a mention of its recent inclusion in a StatusNet Google Summer of Code project. The Phergie team is honored to have their work featured [...]