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  • From: Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Updates on beta web site
  • Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:28:21 +0300

On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:28:16 +0300
Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru> wrote:

> The final changes are the following:
>
> - reference for all Sorcery commands is complete[0]
>
> - more URLs unification[1]
>
> - authors URLs are now defined as standard personal pages, i.e.
> "/~$username" -- it's defined by the site engine. So we can use them
> later as personal pages we used before with user information and
> questions like "GNOME or KDE?", etc. $username == a user in HTTP auth.
> News pages contain authors as links to these personal pages -- both in
> a pagination layout[2] and news pages themselves[3]. They will be
> filled later on for/by those who wish so.

I've started a slow migration of them, so you can see how will this
look like:

http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Authors

Those gorgeous names (especially for our former devs) must not be
forgotten!

(and a link to the Authors is located on the Developers page as well:
http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Developers)

>
> - I converted all grimoire release pages (0.6-0.15) [4],[5] we had on an
> old version of the website according to our new template[6]. News pages
> were updated respectively[7],[8] to contain proper links to these
> release pages. They are full of a very important information on the
> process we had, including good QA, etc. -- this is what we should
> definetely resurrect and continue doing when producing new releases.
> Those are awesome examples of a good job.
>
> - Installation guide from yet another source[9] (so now we have 3 of
> them!)[10] was transferred from the old places including remarks from
> me and Pol (thanks!)
>
> - A great improvement was the Intro[11] page. It was extended *a lot*
> with those information snips we have in the Tome repository (last
> touched 7 years ago). It reveals our true aims and philosophical views
> on a system that should be presented by the distro we're working on.
> Pretty inspiring, heh.
>
> - Another *important* new page is a huge article about comparing us with
> Gentoo[12]. This one was moved almost as-is with a couple of changes
> including proper links and references to the current status of Sorcery.
> It contains some version of the Linux distro timeline[13], along with a
> reference to the site containing the most recent one.
>
> - there were several fixes to layout on different screens, including
> dynamic width/height with CSS3, etc. Thanks to Pol for that.
>
> - several cosmetic fixes were made as well -- you will not notice
> them probably :-)
>
> [0] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Sorcery/Commands
> [1] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/+index
> [2] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/News/2/
> [3] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/News/iso-0-9-6-3/
> [4] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Grimoire/stable/0.6
> [5] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Grimoire/stable/0.12
> [6] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Grimoire/Release/Template
> [7] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/News/grimoire-0-6/
> [8] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/News/grimoire-0-12/
> [9] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Install/USB
> [10] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Install
> [11] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Intro
> [12] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Comparison%20with%20Gentoo
> [13] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/linux-timeline.png
>
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 01:12:51 +0300
> Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru> wrote:
>
> > Thank you,
> >
> > I've merged the changes and completed DETAILS reference[0].
> >
> > Also current status is:
> >
> > - There are 70 pages left to inspect/transfer
> > - 50 of them are related to Cauldron and its development including Old
> > section of Cauldron Team pages with outdated data
> > - 20 other pages are about sorcery unit tests, coding conventions, etc.
> > -- some of them are already on standards section[1] I've finished today
> >
> > Along with that I transfered your workflow example with quill and git
> > with some corrections[2].
> >
> > Other interesting changes include:
> >
> > - update of our policy page: I added note about probst function which
> > is used to generate/verify vote hashes[3], so new users will be able to
> > know where to look -- huge thanks to Seth Woolley
> > - primary docs page[4] has been heavily extended
> > - detailed description for sorcery feature menu[5]
> > - distributed compilation description and cross install guide[6]
> > - INSTALL_ROOT and friends are easy to access now[7] -- thanks to
> > Andrew Stitt
> >
> > And the final heavy change is about grimoire release process[8].
> > I've re-arranged it a bit and created new template[9] layout which
> > avoids duplicate data between releases (i.e. how-to-test was moved to
> > release guide). Also the spell-list for testing is updated now -- it's
> > based on the latest 0.61 chroot image excluding several extra spells
> > not really needed for testing basesystem image (for example, those
> > which add extra non-critical functionaly like ACPI daemon) totalling
> > 111 spells. So now stable grimoire release template is more clear.
> >
> > Feel free to comment on the overall changes!
> >
> > [0] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Spell/Files/DETAILS
> > [1] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Spell/Book#head-1-3
> > [2] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Quill/Workflow
> > [3] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Policy/Voting#verification
> > [4] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Docs
> > [5] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Sorcery/Feature%20menu
> > [6] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Distributed%20compilation
> > [7] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Sorcery/Roots
> > [8] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Grimoire/Release
> > [9] http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Grimoire/Release/Template
> >
> > On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 13:57:23 +0100
> > Jaka Kranjc <smgl AT lynxlynx.info> wrote:
> >
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > > here are some notes:
> > >
> > > SOURCEn_HINTS
> > > Special hints for summon, so sources can be downloaded without error.
> > > Possible
> > > values currently include:
> > > - old_svn_compat (maintain compatibility with original SVN url format —
> > > needed for
> > > SOURCE_URLs that use http:// instead of svn://)
> > > - no-check-certificates (disable cert checking for https transfers)
> > >
> > > ACTIVE_FTP
> > > Set to "on" if the spell's sources are on ftp servers that are not
> > > accessible in passive
> > > FTP mode.
> > >
> > > DISTCC_HOSTS
> > > DO NOT USE. Put this into the depreciated section. If for some reason
> > > the spell can't
> > > be compiled with the help of distcc (and it isn't just a make -jN bug),
> > > use
> > > DISABLE_DISTCC=yes to disable it.
> > >
> > > Please mention UP_TRIGGERS in TRIGGERS too. It probably obsoletes most
> > > of the
> > > latter's uses and has the benefit that it will work already on the
> > > first run. Remember,
> > > normal triggers need one pass to be saved first.
> > >
> > > http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Spell/Files/DEPENDS
> > > force_depends forces ordering and that's what helps most. GCC could've
> > > been
> > > recompiled later in the queue, but this spell needs the latest before
> > > its own build.
> > >
> > > http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Spell/Files/PREPARE
> > > Please use a different example, VERSION should be static where possible.
> > >
> > > http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Spell/Files/PRE_SUB_DEPENDS
> > > All the examples could use a catch-all *) debug statement. They're fine
> > > otherwise,
> > > as case will return 0 when nothing matches.
> > >
> > > LP
> > > --
> > > To err is humour
> > > www.gemrb.org
> >
> >
> > --
> > Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>
>
>
> --
> Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>


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