Whissip is a derived branch from b2evolution, with additional features.
For example:
Requires PHP5 and does not support PHP4 anymore (this is a good thing!).
Uses UTF8 internally for encoding only; this allows to mix contents using
different charsets on a single page and does not require input/output
conversion.
Also this allows such trivial things like using "totally abstract and
not gainable" words/meanings like "爱" in your user name. b2evo itself
totally barks out at that.
DB class does not fetch all results and caches them in a PHP array;
this results in better performance and less memory usage.
Improved format for global.php (translations), using single quotes, and
avoiding runtime conversion; this provides better performance.
"Publish NOW" button considers "Protected" and "Private" as published,
too. In particular, it does not set a post to "published", if it gets
created as "protected".
Make the blogs directory your webserver's document root
Go to your document root in your browser (e.g. http://localhost/). Install.
After installation, you may want to commit the settings:
bzr ci -m "Config"
When you do any local hacks/changes to whissip/b2evo files, you can just commit them (to your local branch - "magic").
To get new upstream changes, do bzr pull (or bzr merge - if you have a local branch with changes/hacks).
This pulls in upstream changes, which you can then commit to your local branch using e.g. bzr ci -m "Merged upstream."
Please contact me in case of any discrepancies or suggestions.
future?
There will be some wiki and free porn here in the near future probably.
logo?
Currently, it still uses the derived b2evolution branding, but it may make sense at some point to use a separate logo.
Some submissions are already available.