OpenGuides-Dev June 2004

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[OpenGuides-Dev] New installation - some notes.
by hakim＠cassimally.net 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

Yesterday, I managed to install OpenGuides to my perlmonk.org account with some encouragement from Kake and co at #openguides. (My first time on IRC...) A couple of points: * If not installing as root, look at perldoc CPAN, FAQ section 5 for the various o conf settings. ** >Before< running perl -MCPAN -e shell, create the ~/perl/lib directory and add it to PERL5LIB ('export PERL5LIB=/home/osfameron/perl/lib') * CPAN didn't follow install link to Geography::NationalGrid, though it is in the YAML file. May just be me, all the other modules installed fine though. * I found it annoying that OpenGuides asks for all the config information before completing the install including prerequisites. Because I kept on fscking things up, I re-entered this information a dozen times. (It doesn't save the config file until successul installation). * For unix-illiterates like me, it'd be nice to know what permissions need to be set on the files created so that the webserver can read them. I just used chmod 0777 on everything to get it to work, but I'm guessing that I could probably be a bit tighter... * When I first installed at home, I installed CGI::Wiki, so my database got set up during make test (and handily populated with some London pages!) It was already installed on perlmonk.org so I never got that. Kake pointed me at cgi-wiki-setupdb, which /is/ mentioned in OpenGuides's INSTALL file. Would be nice if the Build procedure also finished with a note "please run cgi-wiki-setupdb". (Or prompts whether you want to autorun it? After all, it knows all the details of the db you are using). ** How about an openguides-setupdb script that adds canned "Text formatting rules" etc. entries? (Of course you can't impose a "site policy" document, but the template could include links to discussion on what to include in such a policy). * Because I installed files in a personal ~/perl/lib, the .cgi couldn't find them. I got around this by editing wiki.cgi with the appropriate use lib invocation. ** (Of course, I forgot to edit the other .cgi scripts in the directory, but there you go). Is there a better way to handle this? Oh, the empty shell is at http://osfameron.perlmonk.org/cgi-bin/openguides/wiki.cgi (though the add/edit etc. scripts aren't working as above) and may well become less empty over the next months. I'm really looking forward to playing with OpenGuides! I'll let you know if anything useful comes out of this installation. Cheers, osfameron

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Re: span class="hidden"
by Kate L Pugh 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 04:01:06PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: >> What's the '<span class="hidden">' in navbar.tt all about? On Thu 10 Jun 2004, Earle Martin <earle(a)downlode.org> wrote: > From 'Changes' for 0.31: > > Numerous template tweaks to comply with the W3C's Web Content > Accessibility Guidelines (http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/): > (...) > - labels for all form input elements and some textual additions > to templates, such as '/' separators between navbar items, > because the guidelines specify links should not only be > separated by whitespace. If you don't want these to appear, > put the following in your stylesheet and they'll be hidden by > CSS (but will still appear for people using textual browsers or > screen readers): ".hidden { display: none }". 16:16 [msg grault] Hm. I'm not sure that "hidden" is a good name for the class. It's sort of a bit general. 16:17 grault(earle(a)mythix.re)-> Hmm. I was thinking that the class could be applied to other hidden content, but I'm not sure what that could be. 16:17 [msg grault] Yes, but if there was other hidden content you might want to hide some types but not others. 16:19 grault(earle(a)mythix.re)-> Hmm. Maybe something like .non_visual, or .accessibility 16:19 [msg grault] Post to the list, maybe. 16:19 grault(earle(a)mythix.re)-> Yeah. Opinions? Kake

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[OpenGuides-Dev] CPAN Upload: K/KA/KAKE/OpenGuides-0.33_06.tar.gz
by Kate L Pugh 13 Jun '04

13 Jun '04

----- Forwarded message from PAUSE <upload(a)pause.perl.org> ----- The URL http://the.earth.li/~kake/code/OpenGuides-0.33_06.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/K/KA/KAKE/OpenGuides-0.33_06.tar.gz size: 55809 bytes md5: 1fae57ef2e0e9d61bf509680569a31dd ----- End forwarded message ----- This release has new spiffy search features accessed from the "Advanced Search" link in the navbar. See for example http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/openguides/supersearch.cgi A reminder, this code is going stable on Thursday, please test it out on your installs. Kake

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Moving code from wiki.cgi to OpenGuides.pm
by Kate L Pugh 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

I'm working on moving code from wiki.cgi into OpenGuides.pm. The main reason for this is to ease testing; it's something I've been wanting to do for a while. It does however mean that I'm going to make a developers release that you will all need to test out on your sites ASAP because it's quite a big change. I will wait a week between making the developers release available (which will be tonight, with any luck) and releasing it as a stable version. Any objections? Kake

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Broken data, possible way to abuse Openguides
by David Cantrell 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

Some dodgy data has got into the London guide: http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?Locale_%5BTrafalgar_Square%3Bversion… That such broken URLs display something instead of generating an error or going to the home page could probably be exploited by bad people: http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?what_if_i_were_a_spammer -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence See the creativity that comes from misery! Without misery people who would otherwise relax at home with a drink are spurred to great heights of expression. Art thrives on constraint and unhappiness. -- Arp

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Merging content
by IvorW 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: openguides-london-bounces(a)openguides.org > [mailto:openguides-london-bounces@openguides.org]On Behalf Of Kate L > Pugh > Sent: 09 June 2004 15:09 > To: andrea(a)workbike.org; Discussion of the Open Guide to London. > Subject: Re: [OpenGuides-London] (no subject) > > This means that the someone's added something to the page since you > loaded up the edit form. If it just let you save your changes then it > would overwrite the other person's changes, so instead it gives you > the edit boxes with what the other person wrote, and you need to add > your changes in to that. > > It would be nice if it could do this automatically, but this is a > slightly hard thing to do and so we haven't written the code to do > that yet. > I've already got standalone merging working for VCS::Lite. Integrating this with CGI::Wiki and OpenGuides will join the increasing list of items waiting on my round tuit.

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[OpenGuides-Dev] openguide
by brian quinn 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Hi, I would like to do Victoria in Australia, then Australia, then the Southern Hemisphere. Just kidding Melbourne would be hard enough. I just finished a M.App.Sc at Melbourne uni Game Engines etc for Visualisation in Geomatics. Just contemplating proposal for a PhD extending that stuff at the moment as well as thinking about my day job of part time school teaching. Brian Quinn

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[OpenGuides-Dev] secure_script_url
by Dominic Hargreaves 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

If I were to add this config variable, would anyone else use it? It would mean, in the first instance, that I could point people to an SSL-secured server for page deletion purposes rather than special casing the URL in the template. In future I imagine it could be used for other admin-related tasks (and user registration, authenticated node editing, and so on). Cheers, Dominic.

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Test overhauls
by Kate L Pugh 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

What do people think of the idea of amending the tests so they don't use CGI::Wiki::TestConfig at all, but simply use an SQLite database, skipping tests if DBD::SQLite isn't available? I've never been entirely happy with database access information hanging around, and the CGI::Wiki tests should catch any inconsistencies between databases - if they don't then they're incomplete. I'm sort of fed up of having to faff with things when I'm running the OpenGuides tests, you see - if I'm just testing then I shouldn't have to answer questions. Kake

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[OpenGuides-Dev] CPAN Upload: K/KA/KAKE/OpenGuides-0.32.tar.gz
by Kate L Pugh 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

----- Forwarded message from PAUSE <upload(a)pause.perl.org> ----- The URL http://the.earth.li/~kake/code/OpenGuides-0.32.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/K/KA/KAKE/OpenGuides-0.32.tar.gz size: 54325 bytes md5: 9bde2bda5b2d4e4e626daee2ea889451 ----- End forwarded message ----- This release includes Dom's changes to stop autocreation of index nodes on a GET request. Kake

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