[pLog-svn] Contributing

[Oscar Renalias]

Can we start by having a look at what you've done so far? Can you  
provide us with the address of your service or even better if you  
have some sort of test account (so that we don't create useless  
accounts)

Then we can discuss what we could integrate and how. It's a bit  
unfortunate that this request comes this late, or else we could have  
incorporated some of the interesting things in 1.2...

On 19 Mar 2007, at 14:08, Ammar Ibrahim wrote:

>
>
> 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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