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

Andrew Fitzsimon afitzsim at redhat.com
Mon Apr 2 22:39:18 UTC 2012


Totally agree with you.  Plug me on when you are ready and I'll make it work.

On 03/04/2012, at 7:33 AM, Matt Wagner <matt.wagner at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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