On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 16:37, Sean Gilligan wrote: > > there is no need to [update the proposal]. the proposal is old and is only > > meant as a > > description of work to be done. now that the work is complete if would > > be tiresome to keep the proposals up to date. > > I understand. Personally, I find the old proposals helpful in > understanding the details of particular features and why they were > implemented. If I find or get useful information from a list, I figure > I should share it with others in the Wiki. A small contribution to > documentation, I suppose. Not a big deal. >
Absolutely. The better documentation we have the better, and we definitely appreciate that you are willing to help with this. > > > > The ability to change your default > > template was removed on purpose. > > > >> Would it be possible and/or desirable to re-enable the ability to change > >> the default without renaming/deleting the required "Weblog" template? > > > > pretty unlikely, but you can try if you like. like i said, there were > > technical reasons for making this change which affected the caching > > system, the way urls were handled, the theme system, etc. > > I started to look at the form and objects code to see if this feature > could be re-enabled and submitted as a patch to the project. However, > in this case it sounds like the removal of that feature is a closed > issue. I'd only be interested in doing that work if it could be included > in Roller itself. In any event, I wouldn't want to break caching or url > handling... My personal opinion is that this was a case of a double edged blade. I knew that the change for standardized templates was going to make things more difficult in the case you mentioned in this thread, but I felt that the benefits outweighed the costs in the long run. > > i'm sorry > > that it has caused you a little extra work. > > I don't really mind the extra work (of copy/pasting templates) if it was > just for me, but I'm looking to Roller as a solution for other users, > too. I am willing within my ability and available time to contribute > improvements and thought this might be an area where I could help. In > my opinion the difficulty of template customization is one of the > biggest weaknesses of Roller as compared to other blogging software I've > worked with (Movable Type and Blogger) So, this is an area where I'd > like to help. This I am in absolute agreement with and I would be more than happy to try and work out some ways to improve our templating situation. This is something that I have marked on my future TODO list, but there are quite a few other things to do first. I would definitely be interested in what you had in mind though. -- Allen > > Regards, > > Sean
