[pLog-svn] Contributing

[Ammar Ibrahim]

On 3/19/07, Jon Daley <plogworld at jon.limedaley.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Ammar Ibrahim wrote:
> > How open are you guys for us to contribute our changes back to the
> project?
>         We are always open for getting stuff from our users. :)


excellent :)

> - Private templates
> > Templates that don't show for the public. Only administrators can assign
> > this template to some blogs
>         So, it is a site-wide template, uploaded through the regular
> site-wide template admin section, but there is a configuration option that
> says only show to these users, and there is a user drop down or something
> to select the users?


Almost :) The idea is that in our service sometimes we design  some
templates for a specific NGO, or user. We don't want other people to see
these templates. We didn't create an interface for it. We just manage it
through configuration files. Creating an admin interface should be very
easy. We'll do that once we migrate to 1.2 and share this feature if needed.


> - Domain name support
> > We just finished the support for people to have their own domain names
> > instead of some pattern naming scheme
>         What does this mean?  How does it compare with the multiple domain
> {blogdomain} feature in 1.1?


We're running a hacked version of 1.0, I didn't check 1.1 yet. But I'll take
a look at of course. If you check our service, you can see that we have a
directory. In the directory, when a blog is displayed we take into
consideration if the blog has a domain. does {blogdomain} allow for such
features? and would it return the domain of the blog in the blog DAO? How
does it work?

> We have also rewritten most of the language files. We did a usability
> test,
> > and I think we have better "labels" than the original project.
>         Is this string changes to existing strings, or adding new items to
> the locales?


Changes & new items. The new items might be specific to us. But the changes
could be very useful to the project. I suggest you create a free account on
our service and tell me what you think if you have time.

We have also changed the ugly calendar, and reorganized a lot of menus. The
way you upload files changed a lot. I think the project can benefit from our
experience. The service is under heavy development. It should be stable in
2-3 months.

> We're more than happy to contribute as much as we could. In fact, we can
> > assign one full time employee to work on the project for a decent amount
> > of time, and share everything with you.
>         That sounds very generous.


The least we could do to such an excellent project :)
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