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Re: [Firebird-website] Accessing firebirdsql.org vs. www.firebirdsql.org

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Hi all,

Jiri Cincura wrote:

> whole content of the site is same on firebirdsql.org as well as on
> www.firebirdsql.org. For search result in search engines will be
> better to have only one "main" location - not scattering results. For
> users writing "www" can be chiz, so the simple HTTP 301 redirect will
> be best way.
>
> I have a simple, two lines, mod_rewrite rule, that does this. See
> http://id3renamer.com and http://www.id3renamer.com for example.
>
> If the project is interested, I can create .htaccess (or lines to
> admin to add it into httpd.conf) file on server and make it work.

Sounds good to me. BTW, at the moment we don't even have mod_rewrite
loaded, and .htaccess files are ignored (AllowOverride None), except
in userdirs.

I don't know if there are any (security?) objections to this type of
config change. While we're talking about configuration, myself I'd
like to be able to restrict web access to certain files and directories
through .htaccess files.


Cheers,
Paul Vinkenoog

[Firebird-website] Accessing firebirdsql.org vs. www.firebirdsql.org

[Jiri C. <di...@ci...>]

Hello *,

whole content of the site is same on firebirdsql.org as well as on
www.firebirdsql.org. For search result in search engines will be
better to have only one "main" location - not scattering results. For
users writing "www" can be chiz, so the simple HTTP 301 redirect will
be best way.

I have a simple, two lines, mod_rewrite rule, that does this. See
http://id3renamer.com and http://www.id3renamer.com for example.

If the project is interested, I can create .htaccess (or lines to
admin to add it into httpd.conf) file on server and make it work.

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[Firebird-website] Links to bugfixes corrected

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Hi,

The links to Firebird-2.1-BugFixes.pdf (on page_engine_204 and _210) didn't work because they had a lowercase 'f' in 'fixes'. I've corrected them. So for all of you in Australia who have local copies... ;-)

Cheers,
Paul Vinkenoog

Re: [Firebird-website] ppc port is done

[marius p. <ma...@gm...>]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Helen Borrie <he...@ii...> wrote:

> I wrote:
> >Somebody needs to take responsibility for this type of information...do
> you want to volunteer?
>
> At 04:17 PM 9/04/2008, marius popa wrote:
>
>
>
> >Yes i volunteer :)
> >I can help with the website  and with the porting docs
>
> OK, Marius, would you watch out for me in ICQ in an hour or so?

I will contact you , now is my lunch  break , i will contact you as soon i
get back from restaurant

>
>
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Re: [Firebird-website] ppc port is done

[Helen B. <he...@ii...>]

I wrote:
>Somebody needs to take responsibility for this type of information...do you want to volunteer?

At 04:17 PM 9/04/2008, marius popa wrote:



>Yes i volunteer :)
>I can help with the website  and with the porting docs 

OK, Marius, would you watch out for me in ICQ in an hour or so?

Helen

Re: [Firebird-website] ppc port is done

[marius p. <ma...@gm...>]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Helen Borrie <he...@ii...> wrote:

> Marius,
>
> At 03:54 PM 9/04/2008, marius popa wrote:
> >at the bottom of the page there is an ppc port mention
> >that is already done and the page should be changed
> ><http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=engine>
> http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=engine
> >
> >and this page shoud be removed
> ><http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=engine&id=plat_ppc64>
> http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=engine&id=plat_ppc64
> >
> >the tips can be used for other ports
> >
> >
> >
> >In general, porting Firebird to Linux/***64/***32 platform will not be
> difficult.
> >    * You need to register the new architecture in the build system and
> in a couple of places in the source code and make sure it builds properly.
> This is a good test by itself, as Firebird uses itself extensively during
> the build process.
> >    * Then you need to run <
> http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=qa&id=qmtest_howto>QMDB
> and TCS tests and make sure there are no new regressions. Alignment
> failures, a.k.a. SIGBUS errors, are the most likely problems you'll need to
> take care of.
> >
> >also the porting will be changed from what i have seen on devel list
> >
> >an example for arm port (it's just an sample not the final port)
> >
> ><
> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/2.1.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/port-arm.patch;h=2e161ba5155e0f43d34fc199b68db8dfa5ddab74;hb=HEAD
> >
> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/2.1.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/port-arm.patch;h=2e161ba5155e0f43d34fc199b68db8dfa5ddab74;hb=HEAD
> >
> >and here is another port already included in the cvs head (Mips/mipsel)
> ><
> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/2.0.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/port-mipsel.patch;h=0f99cab4278467c21347b727b806f47b80bc6ebf;hb=03bf3f72d00ad9da6d705a28fa26eef1cb306eed
> >
> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/2.0.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/port-mipsel.patch;h=0f99cab4278467c21347b727b806f47b80bc6ebf;hb=03bf3f72d00ad9da6d705a28fa26eef1cb306eed
>
>
> Somebody needs to take responsibility for this type of information...do
> you want to volunteer?

Yes i volunteer :)
I can help with the website  and with the porting docs

>
>
> Helen
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Re: [Firebird-website] ppc port is done

[Helen B. <he...@ii...>]

Marius,

At 03:54 PM 9/04/2008, marius popa wrote:
>at the bottom of the page there is an ppc port mention 
>that is already done and the page should be changed 
><http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=engine>http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=engine
>
>and this page shoud be removed 
><http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=engine&id=plat_ppc64>http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=engine&id=plat_ppc64
>
>the tips can be used for other ports
>
>
>
>In general, porting Firebird to Linux/***64/***32 platform will not be difficult. 
>    * You need to register the new architecture in the build system and in a couple of places in the source code and make sure it builds properly. This is a good test by itself, as Firebird uses itself extensively during the build process. 
>    * Then you need to run <http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=qa&id=qmtest_howto>QMDB and TCS tests and make sure there are no new regressions. Alignment failures, a.k.a. SIGBUS errors, are the most likely problems you'll need to take care of. 
>
>also the porting will be changed from what i have seen on devel list 
>
>an example for arm port (it's just an sample not the final port)
>
><http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/2.1.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/port-arm.patch;h=2e161ba5155e0f43d34fc199b68db8dfa5ddab74;hb=HEAD>http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/2.1.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/port-arm.patch;h=2e161ba5155e0f43d34fc199b68db8dfa5ddab74;hb=HEAD
>
>and here is another port already included in the cvs head (Mips/mipsel)
><http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/2.0.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/port-mipsel.patch;h=0f99cab4278467c21347b727b806f47b80bc6ebf;hb=03bf3f72d00ad9da6d705a28fa26eef1cb306eed>http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/2.0.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/port-mipsel.patch;h=0f99cab4278467c21347b727b806f47b80bc6ebf;hb=03bf3f72d00ad9da6d705a28fa26eef1cb306eed


Somebody needs to take responsibility for this type of information...do you want to volunteer?

Helen

[Firebird-website] ppc port is done

[marius p. <ma...@gm...>]

at the bottom of the page there is an ppc port mention
that is already done and the page should be changed
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=engine

and this page shoud be removed
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=engine&id=plat_ppc64

the tips can be used for other ports



In general, porting Firebird to Linux/***64/***32 platform will not be
difficult.

   - You need to register the new architecture in the build system and in
   a couple of places in the source code and make sure it builds properly. This
   is a good test by itself, as Firebird uses itself extensively during the
   build process.

   - Then you need to run QMDB and TCS
tests<http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=qa&id=qmtest_howto>and
make sure there are no new regressions. Alignment failures, a.k.a.
   SIGBUS errors, are the most likely problems you'll need to take care of.


also the porting will be changed from what i have seen on devel list

an example for arm port (it's just an sample not the final port)

http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/2.1.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/port-arm.patch;h=2e161ba5155e0f43d34fc199b68db8dfa5ddab74;hb=HEAD

and here is another port already included in the cvs head (Mips/mipsel)
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/2.0.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/port-mipsel.patch;h=0f99cab4278467c21347b727b806f47b80bc6ebf;hb=03bf3f72d00ad9da6d705a28fa26eef1cb306eed



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Re: [Firebird-website] CVS vs. SVN modules on website

[Jiri C. <di...@ci...>]

On 3/6/08, Pavel Cisar <pc...@ib...> wrote:
> It's not possible with current site code. I'll take a look at this over
>  weekend. It's not very complicated improvement and QA subproject needs
>  this feature too :-)

Hi,

I had some free time today, so I looked to code more deeply.

What do you think about adding same code as for CVS modules in
/srv/www/htdocs/devel/sidemenu.php and introduce new variable
$svn_modules? This is easy to do. And to tune this to perfect piece of
code :D we can add is_empty test for $cvs_modules and $svn_modules and
if empty, we can skip the heading "CVS Modules:" or "SVN modules:".

Comments?

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Re: [Firebird-website] FB 2.1 RC2 web page

[Helen B. <he...@ii...>]

At 07:53 PM 11/03/2008, Philippe Makowski wrote:
>Hello
>
>could it be possible to put the "Release Notes" part on top ? it would be more visible
>
>and other point in this part we indicate :
>"Firebird 2.0.5 and 2.1 RC 2 Cumulative Bug Fixes, build bf210_10"
>but in fact, it sould be :
>"Firebird 2.0.3 and 2.1 RC 2 Cumulative Bug Fixes, build bf210_10"
>
>Last point 64bit builds for MacOsx are listed but not yet released


All done.-- HB

[Firebird-website] FB 2.1 RC2 web page

[Philippe M. <mak...@fi...>]

Hello

could it be possible to put the "Release Notes" part on top ? it would be more visible

and other point in this part we indicate :
"Firebird 2.0.5 and 2.1 RC 2 Cumulative Bug Fixes, build bf210_10"
but in fact, it sould be :
"Firebird 2.0.3 and 2.1 RC 2 Cumulative Bug Fixes, build bf210_10"

Last point 64bit builds for MacOsx are listed but not yet released

Re: [Firebird-website] CVS vs. SVN modules on website

[Jiri C. <di...@ci...>]

On 3/6/08, Pavel Cisar <pc...@ib...> wrote:
>  weekend. It's not very complicated improvement and QA subproject needs

I've looked into code too, looks like really small change.

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Re: [Firebird-website] CVS vs. SVN modules on website

[Pavel C. <pc...@ib...>]

Jiri Cincura napsal(a):
> 
> on every project page (i.e.
> http://firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=netprovider) is a link
> to CVS module. But some (FirebirdClient) project are using SVN. Is
> there any way to change this? This can be confusing for delevopers
> looking for sources.

It's not possible with current site code. I'll take a look at this over
weekend. It's not very complicated improvement and QA subproject needs
this feature too :-)

best regards
Pavel Cisar

[Firebird-website] CVS vs. SVN modules on website

[Jiri C. <di...@ci...>]

Hi *,

on every project page (i.e.
http://firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=netprovider) is a link
to CVS module. But some (FirebirdClient) project are using SVN. Is
there any way to change this? This can be confusing for delevopers
looking for sources.

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[Firebird-website] Please, add this to the news

[Roman R. <rro...@ac...>]

Jaybird 2.1.3 released. This release fixes only one bug, JDBC-106, which 
is related to the situation when developers use DatabaseMetaData class 
with identifiers/patterns with case different to the one in the database.

The solution is to try to execute the query with the original case and 
when nothing is found, another query with uppercased identifiers is 
executed. This, in worst case will cause two queries to be executed 
against the database, which can lead to performance loss.

Best regards,
Roman

Re: [Firebird-website] website issues

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Helen Borrie wrote:

>> Warning: main(devel/q/project.dat) [<http://www.firebirdsql.org/function.main>function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/www/htdocs/devel/sidemenu.php on line 24
>>
>> Warning: main() [<http://www.firebirdsql.org/function.include>function.include]: Failed opening 'devel/q/project.dat' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /srv/www/htdocs/devel/sidemenu.php on line 24

> What environment are you talking about?  I'm using Firefox and I'm not seeing this at all.  The &sub parameter is 'qa' not 'q' and the links are correct in the pages...

You get these two PHP warnings in the sidebar if the URL contains a non-existent "sub" argument. It makes that column look pretty ugly. The main area shows the standard 404 message.

If you get the "op" or "id" argument wrong, the warnings don't appear and the sidebar looks nice, but in case of a wrong "op" it contains a default text ("This is a sample sidekick for this section...").


Greetings,
Paul Vinkenoog

Re: [Firebird-website] website issues

[Helen B. <he...@ii...>]

At 08:34 PM 6/02/2008, Marius wrote:
>i have some issues with the main site
><http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=q&id=qmtest_howto>http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=q&id=qmtest_howto
>
>
>
>Warning: main(devel/q/project.dat) [<http://www.firebirdsql.org/function.main>function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/www/htdocs/devel/sidemenu.php on line 24
>
>Warning: main() [<http://www.firebirdsql.org/function.include>function.include]: Failed opening 'devel/q/project.dat' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /srv/www/htdocs/devel/sidemenu.php on line 24

What environment are you talking about?  I'm using Firefox and I'm not seeing this at all.  The &sub parameter is 'qa' not 'q' and the links are correct in the pages...

Helen

[Firebird-website] website issues

[marius p. <ma...@gm...>]

i have some issues with the main site
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=q&id=qmtest_howto



*Warning*: main(devel/q/project.dat)
[function.main<http://www.firebirdsql.org/function.main>]:
failed to open stream: No such file or directory in *
/srv/www/htdocs/devel/sidemenu.php* on line *24*

*Warning*: main()
[function.include<http://www.firebirdsql.org/function.include>]:
Failed opening 'devel/q/project.dat' for inclusion
(include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in */srv/www/htdocs/devel/sidemenu.php* on
line *24*

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Re: [Firebird-website] Please, add this to the news

[Helen B. <he...@fi...>]

At 10:03 AM 12/01/2008, you wrote:
>Jaybird 2.1.2 is released. It is a bugfix release that tagets
>two main issues:

[...]

Done. -- HB

[Firebird-website] Please, add this to the news

[Roman R. <rro...@ac...>]

Jaybird 2.1.2 is released. It is a bugfix release that tagets
two main issues:

a) JDK 6.0 compatibility. There is a build for JDK 6.0. This means that
all new methods are implemented, however the implementation is trivial -
it either throws an FBDriverNotCapableException or returns empty result
sets (in DatabaseMetaData interface). Complete support of JDK 6.0 is
planned in Jaybird 2.2.

b) Support for INSERT...RETURNING statements. This is fully supported.

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy

Re: [Firebird-website] website - status

[Tjelvar E. <ep...@po...>]

> Web forums sucks.
Guess that's a rather personal opinion. Your're a handfull of hard  
core firebird gurus,
your knowledge is a treasure, but for the uninitialized it's another  
deal.
Uncategorized forums, need to register, owned by yahoo,
(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/07/ 
MN2NT7C99.DTL)
I see lots of space for improvment.
(Some people think (as Nokia) that mail as a dinosaurie belonging to  
the telnet and gopher branch)


> Well, there are plans to rework the website
Excellent. Plans may turn into result.
One last poke: I belive the layout/content should be appealing to  
mangagers as well. That's where
the decision is taken and fb will take marketspace.


All the best,
/tj

16 nov 2007 kl. 14.15 skrev Pavel Cisar:

> Tjelvar Eriksson wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm interested about the current status of any plans of rebuilding  
>> the
>> firebird homepage. Currently I'm working on a project and the spinoff
>> could make up a good framework for a multi-user doc-platform.
>
> Well, there are plans to rework the website, but after we'll figure it
> out. There are some organizational changes underway that would  
> certainly
> result in new requirements for website organization and content.  
> Before
> we'd know them, any significant change on the website would be just
> waste of time and energy.
>
>> Also, is there any plans of replacing the lists/yahoo-groups?
>> Guess you all know that phpbb3 now supports fb2. ;-)
>
> No, there isn't any such plans to replace mailing lists with web  
> forums.
> Web forums sucks. E-mail is quicker, and anybody who prefer pull
> delivery instead push delivery can use list mirror in newsgroups  
> instead.
>
> best regards
> Pavel Cisar
> IBPhoenix
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Re: [Firebird-website] website - status

[Tjelvar E. <ep...@po...>]

You sure got a point,
However history issue could be resolved with a curl script.


16 nov 2007 kl. 14.10 skrev Jiri Cincura:

> On 11/16/07, Tjelvar Eriksson <ep...@po...> wrote:
>> Also, is there any plans of replacing the lists/yahoo-groups?
>> Guess you all know that phpbb3 now supports fb2. ;-)
>
> Is in phpBB supported mail discussion? AFAIK not. So removing
> yahoogroups will be step back (and what about history...).
>
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Re: [Firebird-website] website - status

[Pavel C. <pc...@ib...>]

Tjelvar Eriksson wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm interested about the current status of any plans of rebuilding the
> firebird homepage. Currently I'm working on a project and the spinoff
> could make up a good framework for a multi-user doc-platform.

Well, there are plans to rework the website, but after we'll figure it 
out. There are some organizational changes underway that would certainly 
result in new requirements for website organization and content. Before 
we'd know them, any significant change on the website would be just 
waste of time and energy.

> Also, is there any plans of replacing the lists/yahoo-groups?
> Guess you all know that phpbb3 now supports fb2. ;-)

No, there isn't any such plans to replace mailing lists with web forums. 
Web forums sucks. E-mail is quicker, and anybody who prefer pull 
delivery instead push delivery can use list mirror in newsgroups instead.

best regards
Pavel Cisar
IBPhoenix

Re: [Firebird-website] website - status

[Jiri C. <di...@ci...>]

On 11/16/07, Tjelvar Eriksson <ep...@po...> wrote:
> Also, is there any plans of replacing the lists/yahoo-groups?
> Guess you all know that phpbb3 now supports fb2. ;-)

Is in phpBB supported mail discussion? AFAIK not. So removing
yahoogroups will be step back (and what about history...).

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[Firebird-website] website - status

[Tjelvar E. <ep...@po...>]

Hello,
I'm interested about the current status of any plans of rebuilding the
firebird homepage. Currently I'm working on a project and the spinoff
could make up a good framework for a multi-user doc-platform.

{
Basically it's a db with an items table, tree structure where item can be
an item (wiki), parent (spec of  child listings), and clild (properties).
Multilingal (utf8), xhtml-strict and web-backend with roles.
}

I don't want to interfer with any ongoing projects, and if you have it
all figured out all ready, I just wish you all the luck.

(
Also, is there any plans of replacing the lists/yahoo-groups?
Guess you all know that phpbb3 now supports fb2. ;-)
)

All the best,
T Eriksson