/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/08/26/#ubuntu-website.txt

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qensehello16:20
tpfennighi all. is this the right place to talk about https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ ?16:40
newz2000tpfennig: probably not16:41
newz2000that site is run by the ubuntu doc team16:41
tpfennigok so what channel would that be?16:41
newz2000#ubuntu-doc16:42
tpfennignewz2000: thanks16:42
tpfennignewz2000: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CategoryMarketing also #ubuntu-doc?16:47
newz2000tpfennig: no, unfortunately that's the Ubuntu Marketing Team16:48
tpfennigwell about categories in this wiki16:48
tpfennigI found this and I guess more dont work due to moin wini syntax changes16:49
tpfenniglike <<FullSearch>> does not give a list of pages any more16:49
tpfennigone has to enter the name of the category in ().16:49
VolansHi newz2000 :) any news on the Start Page topic and the Mozilla/Canonical legal stuff?16:50
tpfennigand using FullSearchCached helps getting cpu usage down16:50
emunkkihi Volans16:52
VolansHi emunkki16:52
* tpfennig thinks Ubunut now has way too many irc channels....16:52
newz2000Volans: no, not yet16:53
Volansok, so the intrepid start page will be the same of hardy?16:55
newz2000no word yet :-(16:59
Volansah... because in this case I think that we can concentrate our efforts to the "automatization" of the translation of the start page using .po files on launchpad (knowing also if the right column should be translated or not)17:01
newz2000Volans: I'm up for that, that will be useful regardless of what we end up doing17:23
newz2000I've got to run an errand, will be back in about an hour17:23
Volansok17:23
jarlenhey18:21
jarlenmeeting tonight, right?18:21
qenseyes18:25
jarlennice18:37
jarlenwasn't the meeting now?19:18
qenseIt's an hour later at 19 UTC19:18
qenseOr 21:00 CEST with DST19:18
* Volans going out for dinner19:30
DiptanuHi19:50
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nandhi!19:50
jarlenhey19:50
DiptanuHow is everyone doing19:51
jarlenfine, eating dinner19:51
DiptanuI have a query...I am trying to decide which version of fedora(7/8) to deploy on a server..19:52
DiptanuHave any thought..19:52
DiptanuI have freebsd as an option too..19:52
jarlenwhat about debian/ubuntu?19:53
DiptanuI dont have much idea...about how ubuntu does on servers19:53
DiptanuI know it works really good on desktops..19:54
jarlenI dunno much about it, either19:55
Diptanuok19:55
DiptanuThanks..19:55
jarlenI thinks Ubuntu is fine for server, but Debian is like a stable version of Ubuntu server19:55
DiptanuI will try to dig into it ..19:55
Diptanui see19:55
jarlenbut that's mostly from word of mouth, I havn't had much experience19:55
Diptanuok19:55
jarlenthough my Debian server is going with no trouble whatsoever19:56
qensemeeting in two minutes!19:58
qense119:59
qenseIt's time to start our meeting about the Ubuntu Wanted 'project'20:00
qenseI'm curious, who here is interested in helping out?20:01
nandhay!20:01
qensehello20:01
jarlenhey20:02
jarlenI'd be interested in helping out20:02
nandl;20:02
qensenice20:02
nandok, time to introduce ourselves then20:03
qensegood idea20:03
qenseShall I start?20:03
nandplease start20:03
qenseok20:03
qenseMy real name is Sense Hofstede. Currently I'm 15 years old. I'm the one that suggested this whole idea.20:04
qenseProgramming langauges I know are PHP, a tiny bit of Python and the basics of C#, although we won't need to last two.20:05
nandMy name is Nicolas, I'm the ubuntu brainstorm developer, and I'm willing to put the necessary infrastructure to kickstart that project20:05
nandjarlen?20:05
jarlenI'm Jesper, student. I got various programming experience in PHP, Java and Python I'd like to help out with20:06
qenseit seems that we're the only three here20:07
nandok, time to introduce the project now20:07
nandseems so20:08
qenseThe idea was to create a website were people within the Ubuntu Community can place vacant jobs/roles/tasks withing their teams and people looking for something to do can look for something to do.20:08
qenseDuring the discussion at the ubuntu-website list someone also suggested to add a volunteer pool, but we don't have many people so it's not very smart to start big.20:09
Ekusheyqense, do you mean a community-run site?20:10
nandThis will be indeed a community run website20:10
qenseyes20:11
nandmeaning the coding will be done by volunteers, and the hosting will be provided by the community too.20:11
Ekusheyoh ok, sounds good to me20:11
Ekusheyhave you decided on the name of the site?20:11
DiptanuHow does the community provide the hosting..20:11
nandDiptanu: I will provide the hosting20:12
DiptanuOk20:12
nandhttp://ubuntu-wanted-devel.ideatorrent.org/ for the testing site20:12
Ekusheywe can use a CMS for that, no need to reinvent the wheel20:12
qenseWe're using Drupal5.20:12
* Ekushey checks20:12
nandWe have not yet discussed of the current state of the project20:12
Ekusheyqense, i can help, count me in!20:13
qensenice!20:13
nandthe project is already started a bit20:13
nandA basic drupal module has been set up20:13
nandThe code is available here: https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wanted-dev/ubuntu-wanted/devel20:14
qensecurrently it displays jobs that are in the database, but it's just text, title and date20:14
nandAnyone can commit as long as he join the https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wanted-dev team20:14
qensethe See all the details >> link is not working yet20:14
nandFor now, it's a pretty basic setup20:15
qenseThe idea is to allow everyone with an account to post, but it has to be accepted by the crew.20:15
Ekusheynand, ah, looks good20:15
qenseWhat we need to do now is to decide what futures the first version of the website is going to contain and who is going to do what.20:16
* nand is looking for the installation instructions20:16
qenseThe were in a mail20:17
nandOk, installation instructions to install and work on the website locally is here: https://lists.canonical.com/mailman/private/ubuntu-website/2008-August/000303.html20:17
DiptanuI got disconnected..Can anyone paste me the previous conversations20:17
nandanyone has a question about installation, setting up?20:18
qense<qense> What we need to do now is to decide what futures the first version of the website is going to contain and who is going to do what.20:18
qense* nand is looking for the installation instructions20:18
qense<qense> The were in a mail20:18
nandDiptanu: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/08/26/%23ubuntu-website.html20:18
DiptanuThank you20:18
nandanyone has a question about installation, setting up?20:18
qenseWe could try to reuse the quarentaine section of IdeaTorrent20:19
qensefor the new jobs20:19
nandqense: it's not that easy to pick code from brainstorm20:19
qenseok20:20
nandOk, so here is a list of some available tasks:20:20
Ekusheyi'll join you guys later, i hope to contribute on this project... time for me to sleep now (1:23 in the morning here!)20:20
nand- Extend the WantedJobList model : loading data should also fetch the user name author, and the20:21
nandlist of skills. (Simple)20:21
Ekusheygoodbye, my friends20:21
nandgbye!20:21
qensebye20:21
nand- Edit the default_item_v2.php template20:21
nand(which is the template used to display one single wanted job in a list20:21
nandof wanted job) to display more info, such as the lenght of the job20:21
nand(lengthtypeid, lengthvalueid, lengthintervalid field), the status20:21
nand(New/deleted/Already taken).20:21
Diptanu12:50 here !20:21
Diptanugood night20:21
nand- Design the individual page of a single wanted job. Also design the form who will allow a user to contact the20:21
nandposter, in case of an formal application process (and later, after the website is up, we could add a application management page).20:21
nand- Put some admin function links (e.g. for the poster and admins, the possibility to set the job as "taken").20:21
nand- Design the job submission page20:21
nandanyone interested in picking one of these tasks?20:22
emunkkinand, if i have spare time, i can throw in some suggestions20:23
nandemunkki: please do20:23
DiptanuI can do the job submissions page20:23
nandDiptanu: great!20:23
qenseI can do the page for a single job20:23
nandDiptanu: any question on the code? have you looked at it yet?20:24
qenseI think I can also extend the defailt_item_v2.php template20:25
nandgreat20:25
DiptanuNo i havent20:26
DiptanuI am trying to..20:26
DiptanuCan you paste the link again20:26
nandfor every people interested : please apply to https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wanted-dev !20:26
nandyou will need this to be able to commit on the repository20:26
Diptanuok20:27
nandAnd don't forget : installation instructions to work locally here: https://lists.canonical.com/mailman/private/ubuntu-website/2008-August/000303.html20:27
nandno more questions?20:28
qenseI think we should make this channel one of the default channels so we can easily communicate20:28
DiptanuHow do i checkout the code from the repository20:28
qensejarlen: are you still with us?20:29
nandhttps://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wanted-dev/ubuntu-wanted/devel  => Get this branch:   bzr branch lp:~ubuntu-wanted-dev/ubuntu-wanted/devel20:29
jarlenyeh20:29
jarlenI'm not much of a designer though20:29
qenseThe only thing left on the tasks list are the admin functions.20:30
nandjarlen: wanna pick one task? Not all of them need to be a designer. You can even make and commit ugly interfaces, then others can improve them :)20:30
qenseWould you like to do that?20:30
nandcould be an interesting one indeed!20:30
jarlenI can look into that, sure20:31
qensegreat20:31
qensenow we've divided all tasks20:31
qenseOne question though, the job submission should go to an email address?20:31
qenseWhich address?20:31
nandjob submission shoud go to an email?20:32
nandyou mean a job application?20:32
qenseyes20:32
qenseoops20:32
nandit should go to the poster email (which is registered in the drupal tables)20:32
qenseThe post should tell us when the job is taken, so we can mark it as taken.20:32
nandyep. That will be a admin function : mark the job as taken20:33
qenseWe should set up an maillist for things like that when we go live.20:33
nandTo everybody: please carefully read the SQL table doc on the wanted.info file20:33
DiptanuThat kinda boosts me20:33
qenseOK, is there anything else that needs to be discussed?20:35
vbabiynewz20001: Hey you around?20:35
newz20001hey20:35
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vbabiyhow was you vac?20:35
nandok. Then let's meet next week to see how things have gone20:36
nandis 21 UTC ok for everyone ?20:36
nanduh, 19 UTC20:36
newz2000vbabiy: good, though there wasn't one day without someone being sick. :-/20:36
Diptanufine with me20:36
qensefine with me20:36
qenseOK, well everyone good luck with your tasks20:37
vbabiynewz2000: ouch :(20:37
newz2000it's good to be back. :-)20:37
qenseWho is going to tell Ekushey?20:37
nandGreat. Meanwhile, I'll be here during the week for any question concerning the code or installation instructions20:37
Diptanunewz2000: Ur back.. :)20:37
Diptanunand: whats your emaail id?20:37
nandqense: you should make another mail on the list!20:37
qensegood idea20:38
nandDiptanu: ndeschildre@ ubuntu20:38
qenseI hope some more people are going to show up, maybe madsrh can make it then too.20:38
Diptanunand: ok20:38
vbabiynewz2000: I haven't had time to revise the design do you want to go over it one more time, and refresh my memory :)20:38
DiptanuIt would be great fo someone posts the minutes of todays meeting on the mailing list20:38
newz2000vbabiy: sure, let me refresh mine too, give me just a min20:39
vbabiynewz2000: sounds good just ping me when u are ready20:39
qenseI can send an email tomorrow with details about this and the upcoming meeting.20:39
nandqense: thanks. Please attach who is doing what20:39
Diptanuqense That wud be great20:40
qenseok20:40
qensegoodbye for now!20:40
qensethanks for your attendance20:40
qensebye20:40
nandsee ya!20:40
newz2000vbabiy: I've got a summary of our previous conversation, I'll paste it in, lets hope I don't get kicked for flooding...20:45
newz2000Using your mockup as a point of reference: http://vbabiy.mine.nu:8080/20:45
newz2000I think you've done a good thing by getting rid of the header image at the top, I think you can also get rid of search. that allows you to get a lot of visuals in above the fold20:45
newz2000I could imagine us doing a layout this wide (as wide as your mockup from two weeks ago) like you've done that won't need a detail page20:45
newz2000http://digitarald.de/playground/fly-over-background/ - notice the smooth animation20:45
newz2000picture this - no up down diagnol stuff, just left/right - images are laid out side by side with a small gap between then, kind of like a filmstrip20:45
newz2000but it doesn't need to actually look like a filmstrip20:45
newz2000so when you click the "next" arrow, the image slides in from the right, underneath your gray box. the contents of the grey box would then change to match whatever the current image is (i.e. it would describe the current image)20:45
newz2000in the top right where the nav was there should be a link to the download page - do leave room somewhere prominent for the download button20:46
vbabiynewz2000: didn't we talk about the User stories also?20:47
vbabiybecause all that has to be implemented in code, but we said we wont go in to code till the design is final20:47
newz2000I don't remember that20:47
vbabiynewz2000: hmm, maybe I made it up20:48
newz2000though I do remember the part about creating a mock-up before doing code20:48
vbabiyokay, what do you mean by mockup -- CSS and XHTML or what I have20:49
newz2000graphical20:49
vbabiynewz2000: so is once the download image is in there we are final with the mockup?20:50
newz2000I'd like to see it incorporate the "filmstrip" look and a nice big screenshot with next/prev buttons20:51
newz2000and finding a diff way to do the left hand nav that doesn't take up so much space20:51
newz2000maybe moving it down below20:51
jarlenhm, just getting to know bzr :P20:53
nandjarlen: any question, just ask :)20:54
Diptanusame here. never used bzr before20:54
nandthe basic commands are:20:55
jarlenI think I got it20:55
nandbzr branch to get the code for the first time20:55
jarlenfound a guide :) http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/mini-tutorial/index.html20:55
nandthen when you want to commit, do a bzr pull, bzr commit, bzr push20:55
vbabiynewz2000: what do you mean by filmstrip look?20:55
nand(bzr pull to retrieve the changes of others, bzr commit to record your changes, bzr push to put your commit on Launchpad)20:56
newz2000vbabiy: give me a sec, I'll draw it...20:56
jarlenit requires postgresql? :S20:56
nandjarlen: is that a problem?20:57
nandI often see people feeling bad about it, I don't know why20:57
jarlennah, I was just hoping to be able to run it on my webhost20:57
jarlenbut it only has mysql20:57
nandIt's as simple as mysql, plus it has an easier admin interface GUI (pgadmin3)20:57
nandokay20:57
DiptanuDo i need to have a launchpad id to checkout the code21:03
DiptanuIt doesnt hav any anonymous user mode?21:03
DiptanuI got it21:04
newz2000vbabiy: http://code.bearfruit.org/~matt/tmp/feature-tour-wireframe.png21:06
newz2000I know, its rough21:07
newz2000but note that screenshots tile side by side so you can sort of see the next one21:08
newz2000that's what I mean by filmstrip21:08
newz2000then hitting next causes it to slide in from the right, using the smooth animation we saw in the flyby example linked above21:08
newz2000as (or after) the image slides in, the "applications" box changes to describe the current screenshot21:09
vbabiynewz2000: looking at it now21:10
vbabiynewz2000: do you really think have such a huge portion of the screen be animated will run well in the browser?21:19
newz2000vbabiy: yeah, I think so21:19
newz2000it may take some clever work but I'm not worried about it21:20
vbabiynewz2000: I have done some animation in the browser and if it gets to large or to much it gets choppy21:20
newz2000there are some tricks...21:20
newz2000for example, google maps uses tiling to create an inifinitely large map that is animated21:21
newz2000we could do the same21:21
vbabiynewz2000: how would tiling help with animation. Tiling helps for loading.21:22
newz2000I'm assuming it helps by keeping the total filesize down relative to image quality21:22
newz2000vbabiy: my point is there are lots of tricks we can use so I'm not worried about performance *yet*21:24
vbabiynewz2000: I can try putting a mockup together with this idea21:24
newz2000if you don't mind, I'd like to see it21:24
vbabiynewz2000: of course I will try to do one to night, see how it comes out21:25
newz2000I think we can make this look very pretty, and add some, "ooh" and "ahh" to the feature tour21:25
vbabiynewz2000: are going to have to support IE 621:25
newz2000yes21:25
newz2000:-(21:26
vbabiydamn..21:26
Diptanunews2000: just out of curiosity how many of the users still hit the site with IE 6 ?21:26
newz2000Diptanu: under 15%21:27
vbabiyI just wish everyone dropped IE 6 and that would force people to upgrade21:27
DiptanuNot surprising21:27
newz2000lots of corporate people have standardized on IE6 and are slow to upgrade21:27
DiptanuJohn resig has releases a test suite for Javascript21:28
DiptanuThey ran well on FF as well as on safari21:28
Diptanuthe moment i tried to put the tests on IE21:28
DiptanuBelieve me. it crashed21:28
Diptanu:)21:28
vbabiyIE 6 is the biggest time waister in web Dev.21:29
Diptanuvbabiy absolutely right21:29
newz2000well, to be fair, it was the best thing in the world when it came out. :-)21:29
newz2000but I do wish it would go away21:29
DiptanuYa...and brought with it, the burst of the dot com era as well as netscape21:30
Diptanu:P21:30
vbabiyDiptanu: :)21:31
vbabiynewz2000: if you click on news letter, this animation is even slow in IE6 http://vbabiy.mine.nu:9090/EuroLoads/home.seam21:34
newz2000they're using scriptaculous21:35
newz2000but it was acceptable speed to me21:36
vbabiynewz2000: they is me :)21:36
newz2000oops21:36
newz2000:-)21:36
newz2000vbabiy: try this one: http://digitarald.de/playground/fly-over-background/21:36
vbabiynewz2000: but it still has some fixing to do.21:37
vbabiyyeah, I think we should try it and see how it goes21:37
DiptanuI think the accordion isnt smooth..21:38
DiptanuI meant the animation on the accordion21:38
DiptanuGood Night everyone21:45
mdkenewz2000: still around?21:51
newz2000mdke: yep21:52
mdkenewz2000: yay. You know the logo at the top of the website? how would one go about trying to get one with "Documentation" added to it?21:52
mdkemy wiki theme is coming along nicely21:52
newz2000I can do it for you, just a sec21:53
* mdke hugs21:53
vbabiynewz2000: http://www.panic.com/coda/ take a look at how they do the tabs21:56
newz2000mdke: how's this: http://people.ubuntu.com/~mnuzum/tmp/docs-logo.png21:57
newz2000vbabiy: those are nice tabs21:58
newz2000kind of "un-tabs"21:58
vbabiynewz2000: but the slide show thing works well to21:58
vbabiyor film strip21:58
mdkenewz2000: pretty cool :) Is there a way to make it bigger? even if you have to use some extra right space, as with https://help.ubuntu.com now21:58
newz2000mdke:  you want the whole thing bigger or just the word "documentation"?21:59
mdkenewz2000: the latter, if you think it works. I'm just wondering how best to differentiate from the main site, to make it clear the user has moved21:59
mdkeI was toying with a slightly different logo, such as https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-doc, but I don't really like changing logos22:00
newz2000I may not be the one to ask about this since I'm not a big fan of custom logos22:00
newz2000but I can definitely make the text larger22:00
mdkeI'm not either, let's go with the text22:01
mdkehere is what my theme looks like at the moment, for any intermediate comments anyone has - http://doc.ubuntu.com/~mdke/wikitheme.png22:02
newz2000mdke: refresh that url I gave22:02
mdkefantastic, thanks22:02
emunkkimdke, that's the ubuntu skin for the wiki?22:02
newz2000that text is so sharp22:03
jarlenhm, my drupal/apache installation won't recognise my posgresql installation, is there any specific changes I need to do to make them work together?22:03
jarlenI can't find much on the subject22:04
newz2000jarlen: I've not had great luck getting drupal and postgres to work...22:04
emunkkijarlen, have you checked the drupal settings file?22:04
newz2000drupal core tends to be OK but plugins often lack support/testing for pg22:04
mdkeemunkki: work in progress...22:04
emunkkimdke, but will be that?22:04
mdkeemunkki: I don't know22:05
jarlenemunkki > no22:05
jarlendon't think so22:05
mdkeemunkki: but the idea is to use it at least for the help wiki22:05
emunkkijarlen, sites/default/something.icant.remember22:05
emunkkimdke, ok22:05
mdkeI still haven't been able to bring myself to change the brown links to red...22:06
emunkkimdke, html body a { color: red; }22:06
emunkkishould work in basically any case22:06
newz2000mdke: I've been trying some new stuff with the themeing I've done on moin lately... namely to get rid of the clutter at the top of the page22:06
mdkenewz2000: have you got an example?22:07
newz2000yes, somewhere...22:07
emunkkinewz2000, can we use same templates i've done for the kubuntu start page?22:07
emunkkior modified, of course22:07
emunkkiwould that be too bad?22:07
newz2000emunkki: not ready for such a radical change yet I think22:08
emunkkignaa ;)22:08
newz2000mdke: bzr co http://people.ubuntu.com/~mnuzum/projects/landscapetheme/22:09
newz2000you'll see in there a 'wiki' folder with the landscape wiki theme22:10
newz2000for moin 1.6.322:10
newz2000wait, let me make sure its up to date22:11
newz2000mdke: I just updated it, so if you already grabed it, do an update22:12
newz2000but if not, its safe to pull now22:12
mdkenewz2000: ok. i'll check it out now22:13
jarlenok, got that working, now it just says my php isn't setup to use postgresql :P22:14
mdkenewz2000: very nice22:16
emunkkijarlen, is it then?22:17
newz2000mdke: I'm afraid that the sudden loss of clutter will freak people out, but personally I think it yields a much cleaner layout22:17
jarlenmost likely not22:17
jarlenlooking at the config file now22:18
emunkkijarlen, http://fi2.php.net/manual/en/pgsql.setup.php ?22:18
mdkenewz2000: agreed, although it's not as obvious for editors how to start editing, and they have to go further too22:19
newz2000my thought was the editing is done far less frequently than reading, and you can just press the end key to jump to the page bottom22:20
newz2000a cooler thing may be to have the edit bar attach to the bottom of the browser window irrespective of scrolling if the user is logged in22:20
mdkeyes, that would be cool indeed22:21
emunkki#div { position: attached; }22:21
newz2000is it that simple these days?22:22
newz2000that's slick22:22
emunkkiiirc, it is22:22
emunkkiit might be some other css selector, but anyway22:23
emunkkiit definately is easy22:23
mdkethat doesn't seem to work here, on an initial try22:23
emunkkimdke, i'll check it in a minut22:23
emunkki+e22:23
newz2000there was position: fixed22:24
newz2000but I only used it for background images22:24
emunkkimight be that22:24
mdkethen again, all my moin/css activity is total trial and error, rather than any real understanding22:24
emunkkihttp://www.w3schools.com/Css/pr_class_position.asp22:24
emunkkisome of those22:24
emunkkican't really remember22:24
newz2000mdke: try position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; width: 100%22:24
emunkkiit's not 100% reliable on different browsers22:24
emunkkibut you can adapt different ways for it to appear for ie, example22:25
newz2000right, position: fixed used to be just IE only22:25
emunkkiwith IE's conditional comments22:25
emunkkijust wait a minute and i'll check it ;)22:26
mdkenewz2000: yes, that works22:27
mdkeclever :)22:27
emunkkiok, so that should work with most modern browsers22:27
emunkkipay special attention to IE, however22:27
emunkkii remember it having some problems with fixed position elements22:27
mdkeit will need a box to stop it from clashing with the page text, but that looks like it has distinct potential22:29
newz2000just give it a background-color: #fff; border-top: 1px solid #000;22:30
newz2000or use the dark brown instead of #00022:30
newz2000wow, droid is such a good font, but some of its letters (little g) are so distinct22:30
newz2000it's so easy to read in small spaces22:31
newz2000I just wish it looked a little more generic22:31
mdkeok, bed for me. Thanks for your help guys22:35
emunkkisee you22:36
emunkkinight ->22:44
jarlenOk, I have absolutely NO idea why it won't take my postgresql extension for php after editing the php.ini as asked22:47
jarlenI give up22:47
jarlengoodnight22:47

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