[Phpwiki-talk] Re: WLUG Wiki <-> phpWiki

[Perry L. <pe...@co...>]

Reini Urban wrote:

Thanks for the reply, I see you've added the list so I'll reply to
"everyone" :)

The "WLUG Wiki" I'm talking about is http://www.wlug.org.nz/ which is a
an old version of phpwiki that we have hacked at now for a couple of
years.  Some of our features have been merged upstream (eg, utf8
support).  Some of upstreams features have been back ported (eg bug
fixes to NewMarkup).

> Perry Lorier schrieb:
> 
>> Hi! We're from the WLUG Wiki, and are mostly the people that run and
>> maintain the WLUG Wiki.  We're keen on merging our code base upstream
>> so we can end up running the most recent version of the software, and
>> so we can contribute to the maintree our (numerous!) local changes.
>>
>> However we've had a lot of trouble upgrading to the latest versions.
>> For instance, we support IPv6 throughout, and the latest versions have
>> a  field in the database for an IP address which is only 15 charactors
>> long, where IPv6 addresses can be (and surprisingly often are) 39
>> charactors long.
> 
> 
> Ok, will be fixed in CVS. Thanks for the hint.
> What else?

We couldn't get BogoLogin to ever direct you to a login page.  With our
current version if you aren't logged in and you attempt to edit a page
you get taken to a page that asks you for your username, you enter it,
and then it continues with whichever action you needed to be logged in
for.  The version we were trying with would return with "You are not
logged in".  This I think was the major problem that prevented us
migrating last time we tried (all the other problems we solved one way
or another).

The database upgrade wasn't smooth, although we attribute this to us
using a "beta" CVS version.  We ended up doing the database migration by
hand -- it wasn't hard once we figured out what was going on.

We're just about to try again and see how far we can get.  We'll be sure
to let everyone know of our progress.

>> We're keen to work with some phpwiki developer(s) (which at the moment
>> appears to be you) to add our features upstream, and fix the problems
>> we were having upgrading. Are you keen on working on this with us? or
>> can you point us at someone who is?
> 
> Sure.
> phpwiki-talk is good for talking about patches and problems.

Cool. I didn't realise that any of the lists were still active.  Subscribed.

A (non comprehensive/slightly out of date) list of our changes can be
seen at
http://www.wlug.org.nz/WlugWikiConversion#hdr_modifications_we_have_made

If anyone's keen on seeing how we did things a current tarball is
available at http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/phpwiki-20050621.tar.gz
feel free to poach ideas (esp if you split them out to patches to commit
upstream!)  We hope to split out patches to merge upstream ourselves
eventually.