| thorwil | newz2000: i now need to make the text on ubuntu.com very large until i get to see text leaking on the slideshow. so it is unlikely enough that a noteworthy number of people will see that. instead of causing a relaod of ubuntu.com, could you perhaps link the slideshow to the countdown banner page? | 08:45 |
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| newz2000 | thorwil: that's a good idea | 13:43 |
| Turl | hi newz2000 | 15:54 |
| Turl | just noticed, half of google results when looking for packages are totally broken | 15:54 |
| Turl | for example, http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/linux-image-generic | 15:54 |
| Turl | you should redirect them to the correct urls | 15:54 |
| newz2000 | Turl: would you do me a favor and file a bug on that one? File against ubuntu-website | 16:36 |
| Turl | ok newz2000 | 16:37 |
| SiDi | Hello | 16:50 |
| Turl | newz2000: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350428 | 17:12 |
| ubot3 | Malone bug 350428 in ubuntu-website "Old package pages urls are broken" [Undecided,New] | 17:13 |
| newz2000 | thanks | 17:17 |
| LaserJock | newz2000: what are you doing around on the weekend? | 17:31 |
| newz2000 | hey | 17:31 |
| newz2000 | paying bills unfortunately | 17:31 |
| LaserJock | I've been battling drupal :-) | 17:31 |
| newz2000 | oh? | 17:31 |
| LaserJock | well, more battling my DB/web-app ignorance | 17:32 |
| LaserJock | it took me a couple hours to figure out how to get a fresh Druapal 6 with the DB you sent me | 17:32 |
| LaserJock | but I got it in the end | 17:32 |
| LaserJock | then I had to figure out why themes weren't showing up | 17:32 |
| LaserJock | in drupal 6 I guess they need .info files | 17:33 |
| newz2000 | yeah | 17:33 |
| LaserJock | but I do now have the current Edubuntu theme going on Drupal 6 | 17:33 |
| newz2000 | The .info file is pretty simple | 17:34 |
| newz2000 | just look at the one for garland | 17:34 |
| newz2000 | but actually you can leave out most of the lines | 17:34 |
| newz2000 | http://drupal.org/theme-guide/6 has a page on updating your theme | 17:35 |
| * SiDi made a PHP script for the countdown banner. | 17:35 | |
| newz2000 | and here's the .info file details http://drupal.org/node/171205 | 17:36 |
| newz2000 | hey SiDi | 17:36 |
| SiDi | hello :) | 17:36 |
| SiDi | I'm the one who sent the mail about it on the artwork list, by the way | 17:36 |
| newz2000 | The problem with the php is that our servers are so heavily cached, especially the week before release, that the image won't change at the right times | 17:36 |
| SiDi | I just need to find a way to upload it (port 21 blocked here) and it'll be ok | 17:37 |
| SiDi | I can host it | 17:37 |
| newz2000 | you understimate how much load that would generate | 17:37 |
| SiDi | my server isn't a race machine but i'm having so many visitors (0) on it that it'll be ok | 17:37 |
| SiDi | my ISP will be happy to do this for Ubuntu xD | 17:37 |
| newz2000 | SiDi: You're welcome to do it but I'm not ready to endorse it as an official countdown at the moment | 17:38 |
| SiDi | (i've got a .free.fr domain, the server is on one of Free's machines, Free is a big french ISP, and their servers host a few big sites, they should be ok with that) | 17:38 |
| SiDi | no problems. i'm doing it just so that if someone asks for it on irc/forums we can give him/her a link | 17:38 |
| newz2000 | ok, that is fine | 17:39 |
| * SiDi hates js/iframes :P | 17:39 | |
| newz2000 | I understand | 17:39 |
| SiDi | Mind if my script links the images hosted on your server instead of mine ? it'll avoid me to manually upload them via a web interface :P | 17:45 |
| newz2000 | SiDi: yes, you can link to our images | 17:52 |
| SiDi | Thanks | 17:52 |
| newz2000 | SiDi: did you figure out the pattern for the filenames? | 17:53 |
| SiDi | no :P your .js file is weird | 17:53 |
| newz2000 | the imgaes are named 30.png for 30 days from release... 10 days from release you'd want to show 10.png | 17:54 |
| newz2000 | 3 days from release 03.png | 17:54 |
| newz2000 | on release day show 00.png until the release actually happens | 17:54 |
| newz2000 | once we pull the trigger on the release then you'll want to change to here.png | 17:55 |
| SiDi | i'll link to static.png once it's at 0 | 17:57 |
| SiDi | so that when you change it, mine gets updated too | 17:57 |
| SiDi | unless there is a particular hour planned at which we should setup here.png | 17:57 |
| SiDi | by the way, what timezone should i use ? forcing to America/New York now | 17:57 |
| SiDi | http://www.2nt.free.fr/host/jaunty/source.php that's the php source i'm using | 18:04 |
| SiDi | http://www.2nt.free.fr/host/jaunty/countdown.php here is the result | 18:04 |
| SiDi | the server isnt fast but at least it will never be down | 18:04 |
| newz2000 | sorry, stepped away for a min... | 18:12 |
| newz2000 | the timezone varies, as does the release time (it depends on mirrors getting ready) | 18:13 |
| newz2000 | so we can't hard code it | 18:13 |
| newz2000 | if you're not going to change the image each day then what's the difference between your php script and my static image? | 18:13 |
| SiDi | it does change | 18:15 |
| SiDi | takes the day's image | 18:15 |
| SiDi | but based on NY's timezone, since i suppose the release date is based on US hours | 18:15 |
| newz2000 | The release manager is in Seattle so it's probably going to be afternoon US/Eastern time | 18:17 |
| SiDi | ok, i hope its not too far from NY because i cant remember the US map right now :P | 18:18 |
| SiDi | i just dont wanna have to wait for the release in order to update the script, or to use an approximate hour, that's why i link to static.png for the last day, so it gets updated at the same time than you update static.png . I cant say if i'll be on my pc on 23rd of april | 18:19 |
| SiDi | Shall i drop a mail with the URI of the php script in the -website list ? | 18:23 |
| newz2000 | sure | 18:24 |
| SiDi | Sent | 18:37 |
| SiDi | is there a way to change the mail address used on the ubuntu mailing lists ? I should really need to move to my gmail address, this hotmail one is adding ads for WLM T_T | 18:37 |
| * SiDi found. Sorry for the dumb question | 18:40 | |
| SiDi | I need to leave. Have a nice day / evening, people. | 18:42 |
| thorwil | 48 views from the countdown page yesterday | 18:44 |
| newz2000 | not bad | 18:48 |
| LaserJock | newz2000: do you have an expectation as to how many hits ubuntu.com will have the day of release? | 18:49 |
| newz2000 | LaserJock: sorry, management has asked me not to discuss that | 18:50 |
| newz2000 | it | 18:50 |
| LaserJock | k, np | 18:50 |
| newz2000 | it's actually not a very meaningful number because people sit there and refresh the page again and again until release | 18:50 |
| LaserJock | sure, I wasn't trying to figure out a people number | 18:53 |
| LaserJock | just an idea of the kind of load | 18:53 |
| newz2000 | the site is pretty busy | 18:53 |
| newz2000 | we lock the caches so that the site is served entirely static except for the download page | 18:54 |
| LaserJock | is it all served from a single machine? | 18:55 |
| * LaserJock is fairly ignorant of how "big" web services/sites are run | 18:55 | |
| LaserJock | newz2000: so is the ubuntu07 drupal theme current? | 18:57 |
| thorwil | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/FridgeTheme?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=fridge_banner_tw.png | 19:58 |
| thorwil | good night! :) | 20:02 |
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