On 12/8/11 3:30 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Thursday, 8 December 2011 at 20:15:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
- Would you consider merging your codebase with
d-programming-language.org? That way we'd have a simple deployment
target and simpler unified maintenance.
I'm not against moving the project to the D-Programming-Language GitHub
organization, but I'm not sure what would be achieved by merging the two
git repositories. Git's "submodule" feature may be more helpful here.
Essentially I'm looking at achieving a streamlined process that would
allow me to type "make rsync" and deploy the whole thing. See
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/blob/master/linux.mak.
The process of generating an up-to-date site should be 100% automated.
One thing that needs to be mentioned is that the project's scope is not
solely the web interface. "DFeed" actually started out as an IRC bot,
which among other sources, included the newsgroup as an event source for
IRC notifications. I've refactored the code to use a publish/subscribe
pattern, so IRC and the local message database (used by the web
interface) are two of the consumers. A third one will be the front-page
news widget I was planning to have a go at.
Sounds cool. Perhaps we'll get to modularize things nicely in the future.
- I'm thinking something with iframes may work for the above issue,
but cross-domain iframes are limited. Could we serve your content off
d-p-l.org?
Yes. By far the best method would be subdomains (e.g.
forum.d-programming-language.org or discussion.d-p-l.org).
That should be doable but I should say I have a mild preference for
directories because every subdomain operation would need a roundtrip to
the website admin.
* This may be a good time to retire a few unused forums such as dtl.,
debugger, dwt, ide, and merge their contents with digitalmars.D.
I'm not sure if merging groups is possible on the NNTP level. Doing it
in DFeed would involve lots of hacks.
Oh, I was thinking of merging at file/archive level on the server, which
would involve no work on your part. But let's not spread ourselves too thin.
* The style file should be loaded from d-p-l.org such that changes in
style will be automatically picked up by the forums page.
I edited the main stylesheet to avoid yet another few !important CSS
overrides. I think it's best to handle this in the same way as the HTML
template (automatic or semi-automatic patching).
Anything that's 100% automated.
One thing I remembered from my list of nits - would be great to have
votes like on reddit... but first I'd say let's go head to toe through
one release of this software. I'll be looking forward to your
integration ideas.
Andrei
