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From: Akai <ope...@gm...> - 2012-06-25 19:22:38
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Thanks for the excellent feedback! I've been devoting a lot of thought towards new users and improving the ease of use in general these last few days. Once I deal with the burning issues related to the move, I'd like to focus on making setup and configuration easier. I'll definitely look over your plugins and configuration - I don't know under what license you released it, but I assume you would license it appropriately [MIT licence <https://github.com/pyblosxom/pyblosxom/blob/master/LICENSE>] for inclusion in pyblosxom if I choose to include some of the features? -Akai On 6/25/2012 5:57 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote: > Hello! > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 09:23:58PM +0300, Akai wrote: >> I've stepped up as maintainer of pyblosxom and I'd like to know a little >> bit about what both I and we as a team can do to make the project better. >> I know there are a lot of blog engines out there so I'd like an idea of >> what attracts you to using pyblosxom specifically, so I can make sure to >> keep the best parts of what led you here, while continually making >> things better. > I wanted a blog that > > * was written in Python, in case I had to customize it (which I had to > do a lot) > * was easy to install (sudo apt-get install pyblosxom) > * would let me edit blog posts using vim and keep them in a version > control system (Subversion at the time, which was 2004) > * would let me preview the blog posts on my laptop (even offline), and > then publish them using the aforementioned version control system > (svn post-commit hook that did an svn update on the web server) > * would take care of the little details like formatting a valid > RSS/JSON feed > > My preferences have changed slightly, and if I were looking for a blog > today, I'd look for something that > > * had all of the above (although virtualenv + pip install something > would be fine, I wouldn't insist on apt-get install'ing stuff from > Ubuntu's repos any more; also I'd prefer git instead of Subversion) > * worked a bit better out of the box (archives, tags, comments, pretty > styles -- I had to waste too much time digging through various > plugins trying to figure out what they did, how they did it, and > then tweak the code/write my own plugins half of the time) > * worked like a static blog compiler, integrating with Disqus for > comments (AFAIU pyblosxom can already do that) > > The one thing that would most improve the experience of new Pyblosxom > users would be a nice documentation site (built with Sphinx and hosted on > Read The Docs, perhaps). And maybe a cookbook with recipes for the most > common needs of blog users, like: > > * how can I have tags instead of exclusive categories for my posts? > with a nice tag cloud or something? > * how can I enable comments on my blog? what about spam filtering? > * where can I find pretty themes? > * what about a mobile skin? > * yearly archives? > * URLs that include year/month/day/blog-title.html? > * paging? > * next/previous post links on each individual post page? > * dynamic archive tree on the sidebar a la blogger? > * search box? > * "read more after the split" for very long posts? > > I'm sorry about the lack of coherency for the latter part of the list; > I'm a bit tired. > > I've some of these suggestions implemented on my blog. You can take a > look at my plugins in this svn repository mirrored as a Bazaar > repository on Launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/~mgedmin/+junk/blog > > I've never found the time to clean up any of my plugin patches (or just > merge them with the latest pyblosxom git and see if they work), > unfortunately, and I don't see myself finding extra spare time at any > time in the near future :( > >> I'd also like to know what versions you guys are using (and how many >> people are using the latest version off GIT) so I can get a general idea >> of how often changes should be made into an actual release. > I currently use whatever is in the latest Ubuntu LTS. Or the one > version before the latest, actually, at the moment. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS > has pyblosxom 1.4.3-1. Actually, 12.04 LTS has the same version. > >> Also, since Will is retiring the site, we have moved to github (the site >> part will be up soon). As such, bugs and issues should be submitted >> here: https://github.com/pyblosxom/pyblosxom > I'm very excited about the Github move and the promise of increased > activity. > > Marius Gedminas > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Pyblosxom-devel mailing list > Pyb...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyblosxom-devel |