Re: [Testimony-devel] About the latest commits

[Petter W. <pet...@ya...>]

Hi Carlos,

Sorry for not answering your mail sooner! I've had a
lot on my mind, I've had a hell of a busy time at work
the past few weeks... Unfortunately, I'll be away for
the next three weeks and won't be able to contribute
anything during that time either, and only read mail
sproadically.

Anyway, I've committed some changes that might
interest you, related to the home page:

The home page is now part of the testimony module,
under doc/home_page. There is a new Ant task that
copies the committed home page (the on in the CVS
repository) to the SourceForge server so that it
becomes visible to end users. Please try this out if
you can, it works when run using my user and I think
it should work for everyone, but you never know...

Also, I have removed the crontab entry that
automatically updated the home page from CVS every
night. That means that when changes are made to the
home page, the Ant target has to be run manually.

I have also added some new properties. You need to
define those to run the new task.

About the properties files: When I add new properties,
those are added to the
config/testimony.properties.template file. All other
users (meaning you at the moment... :) ) Have to apply
the same changes to their config/testimony.properties
files, or the new tasks won't work. Maybe that's the
problem you've been seeing?

The Ant script should warn if the properties file is
newer so that the user is alerted that an update is
needed.

> Yesterday I saw the CheckStyle fixings in the Ant
> file, that's now working
> correctly :) I also saw some new tasks to do the
> distribution upload, but I
> don't see how it works (maybe, is some property
> missed? or I forgot to
> update something?). There is also another strange
> problem. For some reason,
> the New16.gif file is always copied corrected to the
> build folder ??? 

What kind of problem are you experiencing?

Examine the testimony.properties.template file and see
that all properties are also in your
testimony.properties file. Also, they have to be
properly defined.

The create distribution tasks require extra work - a
key repository has to be created for instance. It
should be explained in the property file and in the
Ant script (running the help task will produce
info)... If it's not understandable I'll improve the
documentation.

Could your un the task again and mail me the output?
If there's a bug I'll fix it.

> I'm testing it as much as I can, but almost everyday
> I find some minor bug
> that needs to be fixed (dummy thinks, almost always
> related with the last
> commits, basically because of the code
> reorganization) Anyway would be great
> if you try to use it a little bit to see if I missed
> something.

Good idea. I'll try to test some. It's always good if
another set of eyes examines the program...
 
> Once the Ant file is done, will you be able to do
> something with the
> website? I think that needs and urgent update (new
> screen shoots, maybe some
> redesign, ...) Would be great to launch the 1.2
> version with an updated
> site, what do you think?

Would be good, but I don't think I can find the time,
sorry... Also, it might be better if the page is
updated by you, since you know the changes that's been
made during the past months.

Regards,
Petter



		
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