Radiant Sprint & Summer Reboot

As you guys know, this weekend (24th - 26th Oct, 2008) is the Radiant
Sprint Weekend where we are looking forward to getting a lot of code and
features cranked out - so, a big thanks and good luck to the guys who
are going… we hope that we’ll get mini-updates as things progress :slight_smile:

That said, I’d like to invite the rest of the community (those who can’t
make it there for some reason or the other) to find something in the
Radiant ecosystem that they can write about! I’m hoping that while the
coders hack, some of the rest of us can document things like extensions,
etc. to get things moving on that front.

For my part, I’ll try to add 2 or 3 things over the weekend - I’m hoping
to strip out some of the details of the ‘Comments’ extension (from the
article on using Radiant as a blog) to a separate piece, add something
about Gallery and may be 1 or 2 more items.

Given their high level of use, I’m hoping someone can add something for
Paperclipper, SnS, Multi-site and PageAttachments.

[Details]
Naturally, the Summer Reboot project outline is:
http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Summer_Reboot

[Samples]
An example of documenting an extension with screen shots, known
problems, etc. is: http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Copy_and_Move

Alternatively, you could help by documenting (on the basis of the
mailing list or your experience) a frequently asked question/ tip for
troubleshooting (Appendix C). An example is:
http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Intermittent_Errors_with_SQLite_on_Windows

You could choose to document something that’s already in the outline, or
you could add your own item. Don’t worry about which chapter it goes
into. Just create it first - if worried, create a new chapter called
‘Uncategorized Items’ and add it under that - we’ll catalog it somewhere
proper later.

[How to]

  1. In my opinion, the simplest way to start is to update the Summer
    Reboot main page first and mark something as a wiki link by enclosing
    the text between [[ and ]]. For example, if you have this entry:

Gallery – Image galleries

you could make Gallery a wiki link by changing it to [[Gallery]] - when
you save the page, there will be question mark next to Gallery in the
page:

  • Gallery? - Image galleries
  1. Click on the question mark and the wiki will fill out the correct
    details and take you to a page where the content is empty. Just start
    typing out what you want to say.

  2. Authentication: when you click on ‘Edit’ you will be asked for a
    password and e-mail. Enter your email address and any password of your
    choice when you go there the first time. An account is auto-created for
    you. Just use that e-mail and password henceforth. There is NO separate
    registration.

  3. The wiki uses Textile markup - there’s a link next to the Edit Box of
    a page that will take you to Textile help.

  4. The page title and main heading will be the same as the link you
    clicked. DO NOT change it - if you change it, you will need to link in
    that page again.

  5. If you want to see another page’s Textile markup (as reference or
    whatever), my recommendation would be to open it in another window and
    then click on edit. DO NOT click on ‘cancel’ to cancel the editing (i.e.
    exit without saving) - somehow, this triggers Junebug wiki to treat it
    as a new version if no changes are made. Just close the window or click
    on back.

  6. Images: The wiki doesn’t allow image attachments. You’ll need to put
    it on a publicly accessible site and link to it using Textile. If you
    have problems with a public site, let me know by email “tech {at} onghu
    dot com” - I could put it up for you on my site and send you the links.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Mohit.
10/23/2008 | 11:49 AM.

Howdy all,

I am a mediocre programmer so don’t expect much from me :wink: However I
have just discovered the “Help” extension from saturnflyer which I am
liking a lot. I am therefore going to be writing some help files for
other extensions that will display on the “Help” extension page.

I will send these files to the relevant extension owner (Or do a pull
request in github).

I am also eyeing the page_groups extension because it is a tad out of
date, it needs one change to make it work in rails 2.1 and it could
also do with a few new features (Such as displaying group access on
the “List” view that is enabled by the epnymous extension).

Cheers

Jeff

引用 Mohit S. [email protected]:

[email protected] wrote:

I am also eyeing the page_groups extension because it is a tad out of
date, it needs one change to make it work in rails 2.1 and it could
also do with a few new features (Such as displaying group access on
the “List” view that is enabled by the epnymous extension).

Sounds great! Looking forward to it :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Mohit.
10/23/2008 | 10:14 PM.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:50 AM, [email protected] wrote:

I am also eyeing the page_groups extension because it is a tad out of date,
it needs one change to make it work in rails 2.1 and it could also do with a
few new features (Such as displaying group access on the “List” view that is
enabled by the epnymous extension).

My repo for the page_group_permissions extension was created just to
extract
that particular extension from the radiant-extensions repo created by
freels
(GitHub - freels/radiant-extensions: Various and sundry extensions written for Radiant CMS (http://radiantcms.org)). I haven’t
really
updated it since it was created, so any work you put into it would be
greatly appreciated.

By the way, list: I needed to search GitHub to find freels’ repo just
now,
and thought “this is a great opportunity to write something for
Ubiquity”.
Happily, I was able to write a command in less than five minutes, and it
works like a charm. Have a look at 19081’s gists · GitHub.


Tim