Re: [xmlroff] http://xmlroff.org/ Trac is live

[Tony G. <Ton...@Me...>]

On Sun, Apr 22 2007 11:48:34 +0100, Steinar Bang wrote:
>>>>>> Tony Graham <Ton...@Me...>:
>> The Trac is now live at http://xmlroff.org/.
>> The xmlroff.org mailing lists are also now live, so I will soon stop
>> using this mailing list.
>
> Hm... perhaps make a link on the front page to browse the trac
> database to see what's already in there...?

There's "Index by Title" and "Index by Date" links on every wiki page,
if that's what you mean.

There's multiple reports about tickets under "View Tickets" in the
navbar.

> That's what I wanted to do, and it's not obvious to me how to get
> there. 

Sorry about that.

I do consider that the Trac website is more searchable, and more
easily searchable, than was the previous static website.

> The first tree "Trac Starting Points" are to the Trac project itself.
> The fourth, titled "TracSupport" seems to be xmlroff releated, but
> when I open that page, I see links to the mailing list, IRC channel,
> and FAQ.

Do you not see "xmlroff Starting Points" on the main page?

Currently there are only three original pages.  I would try to not
create orphan pages, and two of the three pages are referred to from
the main page, and the other is referred to from ticket #2.

(If you enter '#2' in the search box on any page, you can go to that
ticket.)

> Then there are some links to trac searching.  But if you don't know
> what to search for, the browsing stops here.  Searching with empty
> search fields comes up empty.
>
> Searching with "*" gives the message 
>  Internal Error
>  Search query too short. Query must be at least 3 characters long.

The three-character thing is a configuration setting.

However, the equivalent of searching on "*" is the two sorts of index
available from every wiki page.

> Ditto with ticket query.

You'll have explain more about what you did, because it works okay for
me (but I do have rather more experience with it).

> Whattaya mean "try reading the trac docs"...?  Nah...:-)

The Trac docs are quite good (especally in comparison to other open
source projects).  It shouldn't be too surprising that they're written
mostly for people editing the Trac rather than just viewing.

Regards,


Tony.