Hello Everyone Although I've been watching the project for a while I installed habari for the first time on my server just yesterday. First impressions are very positive. It has a nice clean interface and seems to be a terrific starting point. It's missing some functionality that I'll want but I know not everyone will need these features and I can see why it's better to put those things in plugins. Most of the extra features I'll want are already available as plugins (I think) and for those that aren't it looks like it should be fairly straightforward to make my own plugins.
Having said all that I did run into some issues which I hope it is worth sharing. I'm going to throw these up in the order in which I came across them. 1) I got some errors while running the installation script - ajax jumping the gun and attempting to access the database before I had finished typing, same with the password 'not matching' while I was typing. This seems to be a known issue: https://trac.habariproject.org/habari/ticket/891 2) Log message thrown up for habari content silo being unable to create needed folders - easily solved but would be good if steps needed to fix the problem could be listed. I needed to change the permissions but do I need to re-install the plugin? Apparently yes, and it was easy, but actionable points in response to a probably frequent error would be useful. 3) Where are all the plugins and themes? I went back to download, then to community, then getting involved, then trac, then wiki, then using plugins and finally got to available plugins. After a while I also discovered /explore/plugins and then later still /dist/plugins. >From what I've seen there are already plans to make this much better but while that work is ongoing I think it would help new users greatly if links to those three pages were somewhere more obvious. My suggestion would be the downloads page and/or within the habari software itself on the themes/plugins pages. 4) Some of the links on /explore/plugins just redirect to the homepage for example: http://habariproject.org/en/explore/plugins/technorati http://habariproject.org/en/explore/plugins/typogrify http://habariproject.org/en/explore/plugins/autopinger 5) Some of the plugins are not available tagged as being 0.6 compatible. Is there a page listing what functionality is changed in 0.6.x? I'm happy to take a plugin from trunk or 0.5-x.x and check whether it's compatible with 0.6 but it would be good to have some pointers. Finally I'm looking forward to using habari on my site. I'm currently looking for/to make a template I'm happy with and learning a little more about putting together plugins. All the best, Jonathan Street -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev
