Web Committee Meeting | Thursday 8/31 1:30 PM

very very cool, theodore. great stuff.

D'oh. Probably misread a post elsewhere when studying, and admittedly most of my knowledge of that one was a 'live demo.'

Anyway, I'm in, and looking OK. *cheer* Yesterday, again, was rain (which I'm getting tired of) and so slept most of the day; got me back in sync for work at least...

Once that all ends up in its final location, I will force some time and try looking at the phpbb back code and/or various requests. May drop a 'stock' copy of the forum in a testing area of my own domain space to pre-test things.

--Alan

theo, am i correct that none of this is on my server and i can clean up there? i am perfectly fine either way, just wanna know.

None of it is there yet, but I would still like to move all of it there, if you're OK with installing Ruby and Rails.

no prob. will wait for you to be ready. easier for me later anyway, when i am back in a tz nearer to you.

Take your time...when you're back, I'll hand you a list of ports I need, and we'll migrate over time.

bandwidth great here, latency is the issue. so i can install some ports today if you give me a list. just give me the treetops, and they'll drag in the rest.

It looks like:

rubygem-rails
rubygem-redcloth
rubygem-mongrel
rubygem-mongrel_cluster
ruby-mysql
ruby-rmagick

is a good start, if not the complete list. Many/all should be available pre-compiled, and I found all in /usr/ports.

Thanks Espresso!

building now. as i build from source using portupgrade, it'll take a few

Like I said, no hurry....and somehow, I knew you built from source instead of pre-compiled.

use the source, luke. builds done

very boring part of meeting. and i have done my presos, torn to shreds the clueless other presos that needed it, and am in pre-travel cleanup. so no prob.

Tonight I locked down our extant Upcoming Events and Sail Number Registry threads with redirects to slsailing.org/events and slsailing.org/racing, respectively. All was going well until I decided to post an announcement regarding our newly-transferred Sail Number Registry on slsailing.org.

I couldn't find any link to post a new announcement, even though I'd done so previously. Suspecting that the recently-integrated forum login might be the culprit, I decided to log out and back into the overall site, to see if it might better-recognise my identity and open up the closed options.

Clicking the 'Logout' tab, I proceeded to pass through multiple levels of logout in succession, starting with the basic forum, at least two levels and possibly a third before the site went completely unresponsive. The downtime may or may not be related to my logout attempt, but earlier tonight Theodore tried to give me access to the administrative backdoor without apparent success.

Just letting you guys know the symptoms I experienced, to help diagnose whatever the problem may be...hopefully nobody's too confused in the interim by the dead links in my secondlife.com forum redirects.

So, slsailing.org is completely down for now, at least a couple of hours so far...

The one for events looks OK to me.

Sail registry forwarding should point to this URL: http://slsailing.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31

Hopefully that should fix things.

--Alan

Well, the site's back up, now, so no worries in that regard.

I didn't want to link any deeper than /events and /racing, respectively, to leave some flexibility as slsailing.org's structures evolve - eventually, I know that Theodore would like to replace the forum links in /racing with purpose-built tools, for example. Once LL shuts down this legacy forum, I don't know that I'll be able to edit those redirect links to reflect any future changes we may implement.

It looks like I have to manually type in slsailing.org/announcements/new to add a new announcement; there's no link to do so.

In whatever case, the 'Logout' tab isn't quite functioning properly. It logs me out of the forums, I think it logs me out of the proper website, but it never switches over to a 'Login' tab. The multiple levels of logout I thought I experienced may have been thusly illusory.

That's in fact how I happened to mistakenly post this week's KS regatta event as 'Guest'; because the tab still said 'Logout' I presumed I was still logged in as myself.

Maybe above 'SLSF Information' at the very top of the sidebar we should add a line which says 'Welcome, USERNAME.' It makes more sense, from a usability perspective, to include our logging link as a line beneath that, too, and get rid its separate tab altogether. The logging tab's redundant on any of our phpBB-based pages anyway, so it's really only /announcements, /events, /clubs, /racing, and /tales, where the sidebar's already visible, that our own site logging link needs to be seen.

Plus (Theodore's heard me harp on this several times) I think any more than six tabs up top is too many - it clutters up site structure and thusly obfuscates usability. Without the logging tab, we're left with two nicely-related bunches of three, Announcements/Events/Forum, and Clubs/Racing/Tales. Kind of an overall SLSF bunch and a community outreach bunch.

Migrated to http://slsailing.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33

As Theodore noted, once slsailing.org went down last night, my administrative communications kind of scattered all over the place, between here, there, private messages, IMs - I was bad.

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