Free CodeSchool for a weekend
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dw_dev_trainingIf you're looking to brush up on Javascript, CSS, or HTML skills and you don't already have an account, CodeSchool is having a free weekend May 25-26th.
foxfirefey posting in dw_dev_traininga quick thank you
May. 18th, 2013 09:39 am![[staff profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png){kind=small}
misskat posting in dw_support_trainingI want to take a second and thank the volunteers who helped handle the Support requests about the site access issues earlier today. I really appreciated being able to just go in and approve answers. You all are super awesome!
GO TEAM! *\o/*
GO TEAM! *\o/*
Downtime this morning
May. 18th, 2013 07:51 ammark posting in dw_maintenance(For some California local definition of 'morning'!)
About 30 minutes ago one of our databases (sb-db03) locked up and stopped serving traffic. This was an active database, so the site quickly stopped when it could no longer serve requests. Alas.
I have failed us over to a backup database and now everything should be working again.
I'm not sure yet what happened to db03, but am currently investigating and will update this post if I come up with a root cause for the problem. Edit: It's back up and doesn't have any visible problems. Disks are fine, data's intact, etc. The graphs and logs show nothing. We'll have to keep an eye on it and see if it manifests further issues.
Sorry for the trouble, please let me know if you still see any problems!
what forms are inaccessible to you?
May. 17th, 2013 06:49 pmdeborah posting in dw_accessibilityI was process of fixing an inaccessible form, and went to go swipe some CSS from another form -- and realized that other one also had accessibility problems. Whoops.
So now I'm on a mad dash to do some form accessibility remediation. It's a nice easy task which provides a big net win.
Tell me which forms you have accessibility problems with, and I will add them to my list.
The ones on my current list are the poll creator and the form to submit a support request.
At a minimum, tell me which form causes the problems, and I will play with it. Ideally, tell me
So now I'm on a mad dash to do some form accessibility remediation. It's a nice easy task which provides a big net win.
Tell me which forms you have accessibility problems with, and I will add them to my list.
The ones on my current list are the poll creator and the form to submit a support request.
At a minimum, tell me which form causes the problems, and I will play with it. Ideally, tell me
- which form causes the problems
- the nature of the problems
- what browser and browser version you are using
- what adaptive tech you are using, if any
Current Code Contributors: May 2013
May. 15th, 2013 01:23 amkareila posting in dw_devEvery few months, I run through changelog compiling a list of who has been contributing patches to our code repository, with the understanding that this is not a competition, or any sort of "high score" list. It's intended as a guide for casual developers, to discern not only our most prolific contributors, but also those who have contributed to the project most recently and therefore would be more likely to provide a timely, informed response to development questions. That is why the list is sorted by "Latest" instead of "Changes".
In general, one commit on Github equals one point in the "Changes" column, but fractional points are awarded for collaborative efforts — the most common example being a new S2 theme, where usually half credit is awarded to the theme author and the other half to the person who converts the theme into a code patch. Due to the nature of development, some changes are massive contributions of new code, and others are tiny tweaks; there is no correlation with the amount of effort involved. We are grateful to everyone who helps to improve Dreamwidth, in ways large or small.
I last compiled this list at the beginning of February, and am redoing it a little ahead of schedule since we have YAPC::NA coming up. Since that time, we have welcomed two new contributors:shadowspar and yaysunshine. Congratulations and thank you again!
changelog compiling a list of who has been contributing patches to our code repository, with the understanding that this is not a competition, or any sort of "high score" list. It's intended as a guide for casual developers, to discern not only our most prolific contributors, but also those who have contributed to the project most recently and therefore would be more likely to provide a timely, informed response to development questions. That is why the list is sorted by "Latest" instead of "Changes".In general, one commit on Github equals one point in the "Changes" column, but fractional points are awarded for collaborative efforts — the most common example being a new S2 theme, where usually half credit is awarded to the theme author and the other half to the person who converts the theme into a code patch. Due to the nature of development, some changes are massive contributions of new code, and others are tiny tweaks; there is no correlation with the amount of effort involved. We are grateful to everyone who helps to improve Dreamwidth, in ways large or small.
I last compiled this list at the beginning of February, and am redoing it a little ahead of schedule since we have YAPC::NA coming up. Since that time, we have welcomed two new contributors:
shadowspar and yaysunshine. Congratulations and thank you again!# User Changes Latest 1. mark 474.5 Tue May 14 23:18:14 2013 UTC 2. liv 20 Tue May 14 15:14:24 2013 UTC 3. momijizukamori 152.83 Mon May 13 19:58:06 2013 UTC 4. rising 26.63 Sun May 12 23:22:53 2013 UTC 5. kaberett 7 Thu May 09 00:07:49 2013 UTC 6. foxfirefey 89 Mon Apr 29 22:21:15 2013 UTC 7. randomling 17.33 Sun Apr 28 16:50:24 2013 UTC 8. ninetydegrees 648.43 Fri Apr 26 14:31:54 2013 UTC 9. fu 1359 Wed Apr 24 08:26:58 2013 UTC 10. wychwood 6 Mon Apr 22 10:23:30 2013 UTC 11. jeshyr 17.16 Sun Apr 21 01:49:52 2013 UTC 12. deborah 40 Fri Apr 19 04:48:38 2013 UTC 13. purplecat 6 Tue Apr 16 13:04:25 2013 UTC 14. shadowspar 3 Thu Apr 04 02:58:08 2013 UTC 15. kimira 8 Mon Mar 18 06:59:44 2013 UTC 16. denise 393.08 Mon Mar 11 01:01:51 2013 UTC 17. yaysunshine 0.5 Thu Mar 07 20:52:45 2013 UTC 18. nornoriel 14.66 Thu Mar 07 18:30:32 2013 UTC 19. dancing_serpent 24.1 Sun Mar 03 15:52:00 2013 UTC 20. alierak 15 Sat Feb 09 22:57:50 2013 UTC( The rest of the list... (138 total) )
Bug 3459 - new styles categorization system (brainstorming + RFC)
May. 14th, 2013 01:06 pmmomijizukamori posting in dw_dev(Apologies to anyone seeing this twice, I posted it in dw_dev_training but Mark and D suggested here was probably a better fit!)
So, this is the gigantic project that's been kicking around my head the last few months, because I love our themes but right now, the organization is nooooot there. And I love organization. The full bugzilla listing has all the debates and links and what not, but I'm going to add the summary of UI implementation I ran by Denise below:
( quoted from Bugzilla )
Because the scope of this runs through Perl, MySQL, BML, and Javascript, today I sat down and wrote out a vague work-flow for how looking at themes by category in /customize should run, and how adding themes as an admin should run, so I have an idea of what I need to do.
( very rough, mind you )
I'd really appreciate feedback on if I missed any important stuff, logistics of the UI implementation, and how exactly we should store this information in the databases. Or even on the list of categories I have so far, though there will probably be a bigger, more official RFC when things get far enough.
dw_dev_training but Mark and D suggested here was probably a better fit!)So, this is the gigantic project that's been kicking around my head the last few months, because I love our themes but right now, the organization is nooooot there. And I love organization. The full bugzilla listing has all the debates and links and what not, but I'm going to add the summary of UI implementation I ran by Denise below:
( quoted from Bugzilla )
Because the scope of this runs through Perl, MySQL, BML, and Javascript, today I sat down and wrote out a vague work-flow for how looking at themes by category in /customize should run, and how adding themes as an admin should run, so I have an idea of what I need to do.
( very rough, mind you )
I'd really appreciate feedback on if I missed any important stuff, logistics of the UI implementation, and how exactly we should store this information in the databases. Or even on the list of categories I have so far, though there will probably be a bigger, more official RFC when things get far enough.
My Exciting Week With Git
May. 14th, 2013 07:43 pmkaberett posting in dw_dev_trainingI have just pushed what is hopefully the final version of my patch for Bug 5030.
As you can see from comments on that git page, it took quite a lot of editing for me to get it to the final point. This means I ended up running
For tidiness' sake,fu wanted all of the commits in that branch merged into a single commit using
So, because I ended up doing this several times (and forgetting in between times how I'd done it), here is Wot I Did:
( Read more... )
That is a thing that I did! And explained really badly. But at least now there is outline for asking further questions/putting it in the wiki?
As you can see from comments on that git page, it took quite a lot of editing for me to get it to the final point. This means I ended up running
git commit several times (here's the handy wiki doc).For tidiness' sake,
fu wanted all of the commits in that branch merged into a single commit using git rebase.So, because I ended up doing this several times (and forgetting in between times how I'd done it), here is Wot I Did:
( Read more... )
That is a thing that I did! And explained really badly. But at least now there is outline for asking further questions/putting it in the wiki?
Bug 3459 - new styles categorization system (brainstorming + RFC)
May. 12th, 2013 10:02 pmmomijizukamori posting in dw_dev_trainingSo, this is the gigantic project that's been kicking around my head the last few months, because I love our themes but right now, the organization is nooooot there. And I love organization. The full bugzilla listing has all the debates and links and what not, but I'm going to add the summary of UI implementation I ran by Denise below:
( quoted from Bugzilla )
Because the scope of this runs through Perl, MySQL, BML, and Javascript, today I sat down and wrote out a vague work-flow for how looking at themes by category in /customize should run, and how adding themes as an admin should run, so I have an idea of what I need to do.
( very rough, mind you )
I'd really appreciate feedback on if I missed any important stuff, logistics of the UI implementation, and how exactly we should store this information in the databases. Or even on the list of categories I have so far, though there will probably be a bigger, more official RFC when things get far enough.
( quoted from Bugzilla )
Because the scope of this runs through Perl, MySQL, BML, and Javascript, today I sat down and wrote out a vague work-flow for how looking at themes by category in /customize should run, and how adding themes as an admin should run, so I have an idea of what I need to do.
( very rough, mind you )
I'd really appreciate feedback on if I missed any important stuff, logistics of the UI implementation, and how exactly we should store this information in the databases. Or even on the list of categories I have so far, though there will probably be a bigger, more official RFC when things get far enough.
Babydev bait of the week: add sites to whitelist for embedding
May. 13th, 2013 02:10 amkaberett posting in dw_dev_trainingDowntime: database maintenance
May. 12th, 2013 05:38 pmfoxfirefey posting in dw_wikiI'm doing some preventative work on the wiki server's database, so expect some downtime this evening!
ETA: Finished! I think the ibdata1 should vex me no longer by taking up 12GB of the 19GB of space on the server, causing the file system to fill up entirely and make the wiki start to fail.
ETA: Finished! I think the ibdata1 should vex me no longer by taking up 12GB of the 19GB of space on the server, causing the file system to fill up entirely and make the wiki start to fail.
userpicmap2/3
May. 12th, 2013 08:13 pmpurplecat posting in dw_dev_trainingCan I ask what is the difference between the database tables userpicmap2 and userpicmap3 (and possibly userpicmap1 though I couldn't find that mentioned in the code on a quick grep). userpicmap3 seems to be the one most used and there are comments in the code that suggest userpicmap2 is just there for backwards compatibility. Is that correct?
Volunteer social thread #23
May. 11th, 2013 04:46 pmpauamma posting in dw_volunteersPoll #13410 The recurring tune in the Doctor Strangelove bomber scenes
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10
What is the name of that tune? (Check all that apply)
View Answers
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
3 (30.0%)
The Animals Went In Two By Two2 (20.0%)
4'33"1 (10.0%)
Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre0 (0.0%)
My head just sploded!0 (0.0%)
I would like to complain about this poll2 (20.0%)
I would like to complain about people complaining about this poll2 (20.0%)
I would like to complain about people not complaining about this poll4 (40.0%)
I would like to complain about Spanish barbers4 (40.0%)
I am answering this poll with all checkboxes unchecked5 (50.0%)
So what have you been up to?
What else would you like to see in the wiki page on Version Control?
May. 9th, 2013 02:18 amkaberett posting in dw_dev_trainingWiki page on Version Control.
Tonight I logged into my Dreamhack for the first time since September (there were over 700 commits that I was behind by, um), andrandomling was an absolute sweetheart and held my hand through the process of (a) updating my Dreamhack and (b) submitting my first patch since, er, we migrated.
(... whereupon I promptly forgot everything I ever knew about updating language strings, and mark was very sweet about it...)
IN THE PROCESS, I ended up tweaking the wiki page a bit, to include things I ran up against and needed to check with other people.
What else would you like to see in there? Leave suggestions in comments and we can edit them in!
Tonight I logged into my Dreamhack for the first time since September (there were over 700 commits that I was behind by, um), and
randomling was an absolute sweetheart and held my hand through the process of (a) updating my Dreamhack and (b) submitting my first patch since, er, we migrated.(... whereupon I promptly forgot everything I ever knew about updating language strings, and mark was very sweet about it...)
IN THE PROCESS, I ended up tweaking the wiki page a bit, to include things I ran up against and needed to check with other people.
What else would you like to see in there? Leave suggestions in comments and we can edit them in!
Bribery time!
May. 8th, 2013 12:12 pmrising posting in dreamscapesOkay, this is not a theme submission post but fey said I can post it here.
I am offering bribery for people to patch themes. The wiki has a very good guide on patching themes here: http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/wiki/index.p
This bribery is coming in the form of handspun yarn.
At the moment I know that there is a certainty of one bribe available, a handspun kid mohair yarn that can be plied with either a white merino thread, a light brown alpaca, or a very pretty darker brown wool that I'm not sure what kind it is. This is a picture of the kid mohair: http://rabbit.dereferenced.org/~rowan/mo
I also have some more alpaca, merino, blue faced leicester, and various other fibers that I am willing to offer as bribery. Yardage will likely vary in the range of 100 to 200 yards per fiber.
I'll also keep this post updated with when the bribe is claimed (and it can be claimed in advance if someone wholly intends to fulfill the bribe terms and all).
momijizukamori is getting lovely alpaca yarn. The kid mohair bribe is still up for grabs. :)
In order to claim the bribe! http://dreamscapes.dreamwidth.org/tag/-u
Also I'm currently without internet on the weekends but will get back to people as soon as I can. :)
I am offering bribery for people to patch themes. The wiki has a very good guide on patching themes here: http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/wiki/index.p
This bribery is coming in the form of handspun yarn.
At the moment I know that there is a certainty of one bribe available, a handspun kid mohair yarn that can be plied with either a white merino thread, a light brown alpaca, or a very pretty darker brown wool that I'm not sure what kind it is. This is a picture of the kid mohair: http://rabbit.dereferenced.org/~rowan/mo
I also have some more alpaca, merino, blue faced leicester, and various other fibers that I am willing to offer as bribery. Yardage will likely vary in the range of 100 to 200 yards per fiber.
I'll also keep this post updated with when the bribe is claimed (and it can be claimed in advance if someone wholly intends to fulfill the bribe terms and all).
momijizukamori is getting lovely alpaca yarn. The kid mohair bribe is still up for grabs. :)In order to claim the bribe! http://dreamscapes.dreamwidth.org/tag/-u
Also I'm currently without internet on the weekends but will get back to people as soon as I can. :)
4 new themes.
May. 6th, 2013 06:48 pmrising posting in dreamscapesIt's been what, forever since we submitted some stuff here? So, four new themes and possibly another entry to come later this evening. 3 for Patsy, 1 for Leftovers. Both new colour schemes and recycled ones.
Enjoy.
Theme name/layout: Elegant Brown / Leftovers
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Theme name/layout: Evening / Patsy
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Theme name/layout: Hollow Silence / Patsy
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Theme name/layout: Today I'm Happy / Patsy
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Enjoy.
Theme name/layout: Elegant Brown / Leftovers
Info: Info · Source · Preview
Theme name/layout: Evening / Patsy
Info: Info · Source · Preview
Theme name/layout: Hollow Silence / Patsy
Info: Info · Source · Preview
Theme name/layout: Today I'm Happy / Patsy
Info: Info · Source · Preview