Webteam March 2008

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[ANN] New FunSqueak 6
by Edgar J. De Cleene 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

I put a new FunSqueak3.10alpha.6.image. To list of previous packages, I add VMmaker and SystemTracer2. For loading VMmaker , I first must load Speech-Klatt.st. Was last versions for 3.8, so take easy until owners update his packages. I remember FunSqueak 5 have RoelTyper,eCompletion,Scheduler,Seaside,Pier,Magritte. Server is running To web team , please update the info and links. http://ftp.squeak.org/various_images/FunSqueak/FunSqueak3.10alpha.6.zip Enjoy and send feedback Edgar

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Re: [squeak-dev] Demo of squeak.org on Aida/Scribo ready
by Janko Mivšek 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Dear Squeakers, Demo of new squeak.org on http://squeaksite.aidaweb.si:9000 has now also more public editing rights. Just login as: demo/demo ...and you should have Edit link up-right or edit icon below central text. Clicking on it should open a WYSIWYG editor of content. If you'll got a message "Please wait, page is currently locked by user: Demo user", then someone else is just editing that page. Wait for message: "Page is now released and ready to edit" or go back and select other page and try editing it.. Also, editing on IE6 is not supported yet, while IE7 is. Try also uploading some image in below box, then simply drag it into the text and resize it by dragging borders. Simply isn't it? That's it, I think you can now see how easy is to maintain Scribo based website and therefore I think it will also be easy to delegate some maintenance duties to broader public. Of course there are still other things to finish like RSS reader etc etc, soon, a day or two... I hope that now you are convinced that with Aida/Scribo and vibrant community behind which is able to deliver, a Squeak website would be in safe hands and that you'll accept my offer. Best regards Janko Janko Mivšek wrote: > Dear Squeakers, > > As promised I prepared a demo of current Squeak website migrated to > Aida/Scribo CMS. I migrated both design and first level of content to > show, how flexible is Scribo in dealing with both different design and > things like Url format in case of SmallWiki. You can see demo here: > > http://squeaksite.aidaweb.si:9000 > > Demo is actually pretty complete, what is still missing is a dynamic > tree menu on the left (currently is static) and some other minor > things. In any case with this demo I convinced even myself that moving > Squeak website is definitively possible and it will open further > improvements on content, spreading authoring to more people, adding more > dynamic content, etc etc. > > I hope that you are now a bit more convinced that two days ago...:) > > Best regards > Janko > > -- Janko Mivšek AIDA/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si

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Please actualize the site info
by Edgar J. De Cleene 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

Folks : I see all files are right and I attach the READMe for you put . Still I wish know the involuntary mistake cause. Also I beg actualize the info for the release and for FunSqueak. Very thanks and apologize for troubles Edgar

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Some changes
by Edgar J. De Cleene 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

I delete some 3.10 files not needed , from 3.10 and 3.10alpha directories. Also I rename 'Squeak3dot10.7159.image' file to Squeak3.10-7159-basic.zip for following previous Squeak images conventions. I was suggested to put some READMe. I wish some with better English take the following and remade ========= 3dot10 is the first "official" release without some packages , in the road to successive less complex images . The target is going towards MininimalMorphic > Kernel > Spoon in next releases. This one don't have the following packages 3.9 have #('Flash' 'StarSqueak' 'SmaCC' 'Speech' 'Movies' 'FixUnderscores' 'OB' 'OmniBrowser' ) For easier user experience, you have now Universes of Lex Spoon. With it, you could load many external packages with active development. For older or not in the Universes, you still have SqueakMap and could go to http://www.squeaksource.com/ using a regular web browser like Firefox, locate the package and add to MonticelloBrowser. As example , for Installer of Keith Hodges is http://www.squeaksource.com/Installer. For Universes is http://www.squeaksource.com/universes. This way you could load newer versions of your favorite Quality control. We now this is not perfect, but we have more of 2200 test which was run under Mac OS X, Windows XP, and SimplyMepis 6.5 Linux each time a [BUG] or [ENH] report on Mantis met our requirements and go to update stream. Mantis To this day, the way of Squeak could be better is doing a Mantis report http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/johnson/squeak/ReportingIssues.html The 3dot10 team Ralph Johnson Edgar J. De Cleene And the following list of "Ferrari team" workers nicknames in Mantis franksergeant gokr wiz Dionisiy al andreas matthewf Damien Cassou rr wbk mathk dse MarcusDenker kwl black hangal johnpf bergel dpollet Krivanek loewis Keith_Hodges gilEgozi sumi haleden sge thams nicolas cellier johnmci ======== Best regards Edgar

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Demo: Contact us with Captcha
by Janko Mivšek 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

Dear all, I prepared a contact form guarded with Captcha on my demo: http://squeaksite.aidaweb.si/ContactUs/ Here only hardest part (captcha validation) works for now. Try by yourself. Now we can start thinking about how to redesign and provide a better text of that Contact Us page. First question is, who are the users of this page? Newcomers who like to come in contact with Squeak community in general? Or Squeakers who like to contact the web team? Or both? Best regards Janko

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the Squeak board's recommendation for the web team, 2008-03-19
by Craig Latta 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Hi-- (From the 2008-03-19 Squeak board meeting minutes...) Thanks to everyone who has been discussing the squeak.org website. It is our unanimous recommendation that Janko lead the web team, and continue coordinating work on the Squeak website. Our main concerns are that the site be "search engine friendly", and that content updates happen in a timely fashion. While we don't think a change in the site's infrastructure is strictly necessary to address those concerns, we like what Janko has done so far and appreciate the energy he has brought to the task. We exhausted the hour we had for the meeting before addressing Brian Rice's request (about updating the content at the current site). Sorry about that, Brian. Speaking for myself, it looks like Janko's demo is far enough along that Brian might be able to make the updates there. I'm hoping that he and Janko can come to some agreement about this. As the Teams coordinator, I'm happy to help further that discussion. Finally, the board agrees that the web team list is a better place than squeak-dev to discuss the website. thanks! -C -- Craig Latta improvisational musical informaticist www.netjam.org Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]

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Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Pier demo of squeak.org ready
by Lukas Renggli 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

> > > I added a right side-bar, with automatically aggregated news from "The > > > Weekly Squeak". > > > > > > There are some problems with UTF-8 there. This is a well known problem, also on seaside.st. The problem is that all feeds are encoded differently and sometimes even incorrect. I don't know why the detection of the encoding doesn't work for weekly Squeak, but this should be possible to fix. > I tested to upload a screenshot and link from a small to a big, but that > did not work right out of the box. I saw a Pier addon called PictureLink > in the SqueakSource Pier repository. Does that make screenshot stuff > easier ? I don't know that plugin. Currently pictures are always displayed as is, unless you upload them resized or when using CSS (what is not really nice). > I know its well known issue of seaside & firefox. Do you have any > thoughts how to optimize that? I don't know of that issue. Is there a bug report in the Seaside issue tracker? > Because instead of loading content > only, Firefox does all hard work by loading scripts/css sheets each > time, which is suboptimal of course. Currently the styles and the JavaScript (for the search) are all served through the image. The files can be moved to Apache, like it is done on my web-site and on seaside.st. > The other issues are just cosmetic - like the size of fonts, etc. I didn't work on the design. What Pier uses is BlueprintCSS, a framework to get a cross-browser compliant base of styles with decent font settings. It is can be easily configured to look more like Squeak. Cheers, Lukas -- Lukas Renggli http://www.lukas-renggli.ch

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Re: [squeak-dev] Pier demo of squeak.org ready
by Brad Fuller 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Lukas, Thanks for doing this so quickly, Lukas. The only problem I have is in Firefox/Windows the "Screenshots" page: the large screenshot goes completely across the right side of News. The other issues are just cosmetic - like the size of fonts, etc. On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Lukas Renggli <renggli(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I prepared a quick demo of the Squeak web site using Pier. My thanks > go to Danie and Karl, that provided me with the old image to migrate > the content. I did not adapt the CSS or the components of the page > yet, what you see is as Pier comes after the installation. As I > mentioned there are dozens of plugins ready that can be placed at any > part of the web-site: > > http://squeak.lukas-renggli.ch > > The password for an admin users with (almost all privileges) is: > > demo/demo > > The design can be adapted when editing the "Environment" page. Some > system settings are available in "System". > > Also try the HTML validator (note that some other pages fail to > validate, but that's because of some invalid hand crafted HTML in the > contents pages): > > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsqueak.lukas-renggli.ch > > Cheers, > Lukas > > -- > Lukas Renggli > http://www.lukas-renggli.ch > > -- Brad Fuller www.bradfuller.com

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Community Server Information
by Ken Causey 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Since we have some prospective new team members and leaders it's probably a good time to talk about community server issues that affect the website team. None of this will be news to existing team members but perhaps having it all together here may be of some use even to them. Backups Currently the entire system is backed up both locally and remotely via rsnapshot. The local backup is daily and we store 7 of these (1 week's worth). The remote backup is 4 weekly and 12 monthly backups. Rsnapshot uses rsync to transfer files. One aspect of this is that the granularity of the backup is on the level of a file. So in the local backup for example if there is a file on the system that changes at least once daily then each backup will contain a full copy of that file. This results in 8 copies of the file, this is minor for small files of course but can become an issue with multi-megabyte files, for example image and changes files. Bacause of this it would be really helpful if the website were to use some other storage mechanism than image snapshots. FTP site In addition to www.squeak.org the webteam is also responsible for the Squeak FTP site at ftp.squeak.org. The webteam's responsibility is sort of as a backup for those parts of the ftp site that are not managed by someone else. For example each release team is responsible for their section of the FTP site. The ftp content can be accessed through a symbolic link in the webteam's account directory named 'ftpsite'. Server Access Primarily server access is via ssh and related tools such as scp. The website team shares a single account and everyone who needs access to it must provide a public ssh key which is added to the authorization list for the account. Additionally there is support for running application under a tightvnc server. At the moment I can't think of any other information to impart. If anyone thinks of something or has any questions let me know. Ken

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Re: [squeak-dev] http://squeak.org/Community/Organization is out of date
by Brad Fuller 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

thanks for noticing... On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Victor Rodriguez <victor.palique(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > The page http://squeak.org/Community/Organization is out of date > w.r.t. the new board. (As reported in the industry misinterpretations > podcast...). I updated the board members on this page. > Also, http://www.squeakersfilm.org, which is linked to from > http://squeak.org/Community/SqueakersDVD, now belongs to domain > squatters. link removed > (BTW, can the Squeakers move be downloaded from somewhere?) I don't know

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