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StringCheesian
Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 17
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:32 am Post subject: Thank you! |
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Thank you for the wonderful, vast improvement in the look of the site and its forum!
The low contrast of dark blue text on gray background was really hard on the eyes. |
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brad Site Admin
Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 490 Location: Atlanta, GA USA
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:59 am Post subject: |
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You're welcome. Except I didn't do too much to the forums CSS, save for the text.
Glad you like it.
For those who missed it on /site/status, I am planning on moving Forums functionality into each project's Trac environment, so they can have multiple forums, multiple topics, etc. Also, it will be a most welcomed departure from phpBB.
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JJR
Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 1104
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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I'm really looking forward to the move away from phpBB!
Thanks for all you work.
-JJR |
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kris
Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 1494 Location: South Pacific
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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I'll second that; |
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pragma
Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 607 Location: Washington, DC
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:54 am Post subject: |
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brad wrote: | I am planning on moving Forums functionality into each project's Trac environment, so they can have multiple forums, multiple topics, etc. Also, it will be a most welcomed departure from phpBB. |
This will be a most welcome move. It'll be nice to have a tighter degree of integration with all the various dsource components.
One question came to mind though. I've become quite used to the 'recent posts' feature of phpbb. Provided that the trac forums don't come with an RSS feed (they might, but I'm not sure), how would one see what *all* of the new activity on dsource at a glance? _________________ -- !Eric.t.Anderton at gmail |
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brad Site Admin
Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 490 Location: Atlanta, GA USA
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:13 am Post subject: |
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pragma wrote: | I've become quite used to the 'recent posts' feature of phpbb. Provided that the trac forums don't come with an RSS feed (they might, but I'm not sure), how would one see what *all* of the new activity on dsource at a glance? |
I use the 'recent posts' feature a ton as well, so it's not going away. In fact, I may try to pull off tracking who has read what messages, as a newsgroup / newsreader client might do.
Also, it's my goal to have RSS feeds.
As for seeing all of the new activity across the entire site, I have given it a bit of thought. There are some efforts underway for InterTrac or InterWiki stuffs, but I think I'll want to roll my own "Site Timeline" like the individual timeline for each project. The problem with this is resources used per request, so I'll have to 'Macgyver up' some caching process so one can't wipe the server on each request for this overview page.
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pragma
Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 607 Location: Washington, DC
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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brad wrote: | As for seeing all of the new activity across the entire site, I have given it a bit of thought. There are some efforts underway for InterTrac or InterWiki stuffs, but I think I'll want to roll my own "Site Timeline" like the individual timeline for each project. The problem with this is resources used per request, so I'll have to 'Macgyver up' some caching process so one can't wipe the server on each request for this overview page. |
I'm surprised this doesn't already exist as an .egg of some sort. Dsource.org can't be the only "super-trac"* site out there.
($0.02)
Well, you could just do it on a cron that caches such a page, and then set the update interval for something appropriate. Also, you might be able to schedule things such that only portions of the "site timeline" are updated at any given time; that way the load would be further offset; this could also be done by a cron.
(* No, not where you go to buy an oil filter, but a site composed of multiple trac instances ) _________________ -- !Eric.t.Anderton at gmail |
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brad Site Admin
Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 490 Location: Atlanta, GA USA
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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pragma wrote: | brad wrote: | As for seeing all of the new activity across the entire site, I have given it a bit of thought. There are some efforts underway for InterTrac or InterWiki stuffs, but I think I'll want to roll my own "Site Timeline" like the individual timeline for each project. The problem with this is resources used per request, so I'll have to 'Macgyver up' some caching process so one can't wipe the server on each request for this overview page. |
I'm surprised this doesn't already exist as an .egg of some sort. Dsource.org can't be the only "super-trac"* site out there. |
We're one of a precious few right now. Trac has been beaten around pretty good by me to make it multi-project capable. It's running on 0.10, but more stuff is planned for 0.12 along these lines.
pragma wrote: | ($0.02)
Well, you could just do it on a cron that caches such a page, and then set the update interval for something appropriate. Also, you might be able to schedule things such that only portions of the "site timeline" are updated at any given time; that way the load would be further offset; this could also be done by a cron. |
That's the Macgyver stuff that I was talking about
pragma wrote: | (* No, not where you go to buy an oil filter, but a site composed of multiple trac instances ) |
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brad Site Admin
Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 490 Location: Atlanta, GA USA
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pragma
Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 607 Location: Washington, DC
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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Outstanding! _________________ -- !Eric.t.Anderton at gmail |
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