Insight meeting postponed
by Paul W. Frields
Given my schedule at Red Hat's office in Westford today, which I'm
visiting through tomorrow, I probably can't run today's Insight
meeting. It's scheduled for 1800 UTC (2:00pm US Eastern). If someone
is willing to take up that responsibility, that would be awesome. If
not, no worries -- we'll postpone until next week. Given our
rescheduling ideas from last week that might make sense anyway.
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13 years, 6 months
MN test environment
by Peter Borsa
Hi!
Here it is. http://insight.asrob.net this is fresh installed Managing
News. Username and pass: admin / q1w2e3r4t5
Test it bravely. If something is not understandable, leave a mail, I
will trying to reply but I have to go I will have a lesson.
--
Peter Borsa
13 years, 6 months
EtherPad FAD Thanks
by Colin Zwiebel
Hello all,
Our Hackathon is over and out. Once I'm done yapping with fam in NH and
enjoying delicious turkey, I get out a more proper recap. For now, I would
like to say thanks to all of you. Solid, hard work from all of you is what
got us so far this weekend. And speaking of which, we are 90% of the way to
having etherpad packaged.
A few quick accomplishments
* Packaging of at least 5 dependencies
* Update to a dependency to make it Java 1.6 compatible and src packageable
* Conversion from a non-free JSON library to an apache license library
* Removal of some unneeded java libraries
* Discussion on communities and their upkeep
* Talk of future applications of Etherpad (embeddable, engine for other
purposes)
* Knowledge sharing on git, packaging, and the Operational Transformation
algorithm
* More (lemme know what I've forgotten as I'd like to write it all up)
Next steps are to get the application itself packaged and figure out a
random build hurdle in c3p0. Take a break from Etherpad, though, y'all
deserve a break.
Safe travels to you all and we'll be in touch,
Colin
Olin College '12
E:computing
13 years, 6 months
Upcoming Fedora 14 Tasks
by John Poelstra
Start End Name
Tue 21-Sep Wed 24-Nov Fedora 15 Elections
Mon 18-Oct Mon 18-Oct Announce Final Freeze & Implications
Mon 18-Oct Mon 18-Oct Final Blocker Meeting (f14blocker)--Blocks RC
Compose
Mon 18-Oct Mon 18-Oct Final Change Deadline
Mon 18-Oct Mon 18-Oct File RHT Eng-ops ticket for EOL Bugzilla warning
Fri 22-Oct Fri 22-Oct Reminder: Fedora 14 Final Go/No-Go Meeting
Sat 23-Oct Sat 23-Oct Town hall wrangler announces schedule for town
hall meetings
Sat 23-Oct Sat 23-Oct FPL/designee announces opening of nominations
Sat 23-Oct Sat 23-Oct Questionnaire wrangler announces opening for
questions
Sat 23-Oct Sat 30-Oct Collect question on the wiki
Mon 25-Oct Mon 25-Oct Reminder: Final Release Readiness Meeting
Tue 26-Oct Tue 26-Oct Fedora 14 Final Go/No-Go Meeting (17:00 US Eeastern)
Thu 28-Oct Thu 28-Oct Fedora 14 Final Release Readiness Meeting
Fri 29-Oct Fri 29-Oct Final Export Control Reporting
Sun 31-Oct Sat 06-Nov Candidates write questionnaire answers
Tue 02-Nov Tue 02-Nov Reflect supported versions in Bugzilla product
description
Tue 02-Nov Tue 02-Nov Final (GA) Release
13 years, 6 months
Fixed FWN beat titling
by Paul W. Frields
Pascal et al.,
I've fixed the function to get FWN beats a title based on their issue
# and beat. The node will get a title like "FWN 250 - Introduction".
What took me a while was figuring out that CCK content types have a
different array structure than the standard content types. In regular
Drupal content types, you can set a value with:
$form_state['values']['field_name'] = "New stuff";
However, the structure of CCK field means that you have to do some
fancier referencing:
$form_state['values']['field_name'][0]['value'] = "New stuff";
When I tried this at first and found it worked, I was worried that
type of referencing was somehow weird, but it turns out it was in fact
correct.
Note that this title setting doesn't retroactively change old beats --
it works during the form validation process (after initial entry and
before the items are submitted to the database), so it will only apply
to new content being created.
Paul
13 years, 6 months
Fedora Insight: Creating a new View in Drupal for FWN issue
by Pascal Calarco
Hi folks --
I am reporting out to the list what I've learned to date regarding
creating a new View with Drupal for Fedora Weekly News all in one page.
Paul had created two fields using the Content Construction Kit (aka
CCK)[1] module in Drupal for FWN issue and beat, and added these to the
content creation form[2] . The default view for this was to associate
each beat's Drupal node to a Book that constituted an FWN issue See FWN
239 as an early example[3]. What we needed to do next was create a new
View that would display all of the nodes from a particular issue in a
single page. Being someone who works in libraries, there are a lot of
sites that use Drupal[4], and I knew of this active group,
Drupal4Lib[4], a discussion list for libraries that use Drupal, so I
joined and asked around. Several posters pointed me to "passing an
argument via node id" to the view. That was a start, and I poked around
a bit and created a new View, with the content_issue field that Paul
created in the CCK passed to the view, and I set the path for the new
View to use /fwn. Finally, I entered some sort criteria to display the
issues in descending order, and applied a filter for the node type =
weekly news beat. Now I can reference all of the beats associated with
an issue easily -- ie. /fwn/247. I've marked up the latest FWN in just
such a way[6].
[1] http://drupal.org/project/cck
[2] http://publictest4.fedoraproject.org/drupal/node/add/fwnbeat
[3] http://publictest4.fedoraproject.org/drupal/node/2
[4] http://groups.drupal.org/libraries/resources
[5] http://drupalib.interoperating.info/node/88
[6] http://publictest4.fedoraproject.org/drupal/fwn/247
What remained was to display the title of each beat, since this was
passed in the CCK as a hidden variable. So I edited the "Weekly news
beat" content type, managing the fields, and turned the Beat Label from
"Hidden" to "Above" in the "Display fields" tab. For some reason this
didn't work at first, so I figured I still have to mess around with the
View to make it visible. I can't actually see the title of each beat
yet, so will still keep on working with this, but have made definite
progress!
I've also blogged about this at:
http://pascalcalarco.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/drupal-6-and-fedora-insight...
- pascal
13 years, 6 months
Introduction
by Peter Borsa
Hi!
My name is Peter Borsa. I am from Hungary. I would like to help in
Fedora Insight. I am a member of Drupal community a couple of years
ago. I am familiar with html, css, php (intermediate), sql
(intermediate) and Drupal as webmaster. But I hope I will be a core
hacker sometime :) What would you like to know?
--
Peter Borsa
13 years, 6 months