RFC: Moving Redmine to OpenShift (and adding a blog!)

Matt Wagner matt.wagner at redhat.com
Mon Apr 2 21:33:00 UTC 2012


On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:35:23PM -0400, Andrew Fitzsimon wrote:
> +111
> 
> Let me know when to add the fresh coat of paint.

Probably not just yet, but here's what I was thinking.

I normally don't like default themes, both because they're invariably
ugly and because they kind of communicate, "Hey, I'm too lazy (or
incompetent) to change the defaults!". But in this case, this new
default theme is actually pleasing to the eye *and* well-built. (Check
it out -- it's a single stylesheet with few external dependencies. The
theme I use on my personal blog has something like 20 resources that get
pulled in.)

My one big complaint is that giant yellow trolley car image. It's
colorful, but it takes up an enormous amount of space and it has
absolutely nothing to do with anything. (Unless you happen to run a blog
about old-fashioned trolleys.) I was going to see if I could trim down
the height and swap it out for the cloud image we use as a background in
the header on the Redmine site, but I wonder if we can use that cloud
background under the "Aeolus Project Blog" text instead, and save about
400px of height in the process.

Of course I don't mean to tell you how this must be done! I just wanted
to share my thoughts on what we have now. There are already a bajillion
Wordpress themes out there, so I'm all for just tweaking this one a
little bit as opposed to trying to create the bajillion-and-first one.
I'm also sensitive to the fact that I kind of snuck this Redmine task in
at the last minute, and then inadvertently snuck Wordpress into *that*,
so I worry that a full-on theme creation may be completely removed from
the original task.

-- Matt



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