Skippy, I think your first post for the quarter has just been written here by ringmaster.
I think having this entire email in a post on hp.o would be great for the casual passerby to see what's in the pipeline. On 29 Jan 2013 00:10, "Owen Winkler" <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a little shout out to the people who are lurking to let you know > vaguely what's going on in Habari-land and where we could actually use your > help, if you're able. > > * We're slowly making progress on a real addons catalog. There are a > couple of plugins that make the whole thing go, and then we'll need a > catalog-specific theme. We'll hopefully be able to integrate all this with > HPM (Habari Package Manager) and get on-site deployment nailed for 0.10 > > * We're making progress on 0.10. There is a LOT in flux, as you may have > noticed if you've tried installing 0.10 at all. Don't plan on using it in > production right now, since it's all screwed up. But, here's a short list > of things in the works just for 0.10: > > ** Namespaces - We're adding namespaces to everything, so that we can > better integrate Habari with 3rd party libraries. This will be great for > extending Habari for use as a CMS or app framework. > > ** FormUI - We haven't started this yet, but we're discussing what we can > do to make FormUI have all the promise we see in it. Some ideas include > attaching a FormUI object to an existing form in HTML, using XML in the > plugin info to define forms and fields for named forms, and > simplifying/extending the collection of templates for input fields. This > section is probably the most broken in 0.10 right now, because some of the > controls themselves are lacking namespaces. > > ** Varnish support - I've been working on this myself, the ability to put > Habari behind an instance of the Varnish cache. The trick here is that > Habari generally creates a session - and therefore, a cookie - for any > visitor. Since every visitor has a cookie, Varnish won't cache for anyone. > What we want to do is make it possible to allow anonymous users not to > create a session/cookie until absolutely needed. This can lower the > typical Habari response time from 300ms down to 5ms in my testing, and is > pretty exciting. > > * Documentation Efforts - We were discussing just today that the wiki > sucks, as always. We've gone over many times how MediaWiki is the best of > all evils, and even if it's not, finding something that works for us is > just such a pain that it never happens. I've been working on a personal > project that may eventually help solve this problem, but until that's done, > we should probably figure something out. > > * Weekly Posts - We discussed today the possibility of posting a weekly > post on the habariproject.org blog that talks about things related to > Habari. Skippy has generously offered to manage this process for the first > quarter, and I hope to see some great new, regular Habari content on the > hp.o site. > > There are actually at least a couple of other secret projects going on, > and if you spend enough time around IRC and pay close attention, you might > see where some of our efforts have been directed apart from the above. > We've been carefully and purposefully not logging any of it, so you really > have to be "in the room" to hear about any of it. > > If you want to pitch in on any of the above, feel free to send email to > this list, or meet up with us on IRC to chat about it! > > Owen > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "habari-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "habari-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
