[kdewebdev-site] Weekend update

[Eric Laffoon]

Hi all,
This is to bring everyone up to date... I talked with George last night and 
I'm currently working on getting the new virtual server up to date. The 
virtual server is running PHP5 and I want to upgrade it to Apache2 with 
Subversion for WebDAV. I would like to start working with these features in 
Quanta so that we might not only benefit from them but also be able to 
enhance Quanta in how it uses them. My objective is to switch over to this 
server as soon as possible.

On our present server... I finally read the Debian manpages instead of 
flipping back to my Gentoo manpage and I find there is a rather odd sentence 
in there... My sudo authorization was adequate with adduser to give everyone 
full privileges for both upload and CVS access. If you have been granted a 
user account and cannot use this it is because you are inactive. Send me an 
email and I'll fix it. I added our two new accounts and fixed Andras and Dave 
so they have full access.

My policy on upload is as follows: I prefer to review and upload things, but 
I'm not married to it. I am always at my computer on DSL at least every 12 
hours. So it's not like it will be a long time. However if you do want to 
upload here are the guidelines. As long as you are not breaking CSS and are 
confident about your content, if you just can't wait, go ahead. However the 
following should be fairly obvious, but I'll state it anyway.
1) Always update before committing so you don't overwrite other's work. If you 
need to resolve conflicts you know what to do. (Whenever you don't know what 
do to then of course ask here.)
2) Always commit before uploading! Otherwise if you have uploaded something 
good it will be lost and we will be hunting you down to recover content.
3) Always observe strict markup and make sure your work is W3C compliant.
4) Always observe PHP design direction of the project and make sure to follow 
good form. This means a good object model where desired consistency is 
centrally linked and distinctiveness is well managed. Note what has been done 
so far.

I ask that if you are on the list you join me in reviewing commits. In fact if 
someone wants the task of site validity tester that is something I would 
welcome. Quality control is important.

Here are some things for people wanting to work on something.
1) The image header is not consistent on the main site.
2) The quanta subdomain needs to be started like Kommander and it has a 
masthead for use.
3) If there are 64x64 images for other applications we should get and use 
them. I can make the gimp xcf file available if we want to add something that 
big to CVS or you can send me the image.
4) The developer subdomain should begin having a layout, optionally it could 
be different. I'm open to suggestions.
5) We should probably create a developer.kdewebdev.org/site/ area where we can 
post policies and information so it is static and accessible for people 
joining this list.
6) FAQ entries can be done for other applications.
7) We can set up to display common and application specific FAQ entries on the 
FAQ pages for subdomains, but as all this will be easier when we go to PHP5 
we can wait for that.

Andras, please make sure any width layout changes are not in CVS at this time. 
We can look at the other options.

I have a weekend show for Kitty Hooch this weekend and I start back to the 
Portland Saturday Market next weekend. I have a lot of things almost done, 
not the least of which is that I have only one grueling debug session to get 
my web based sales into high gear. I urgently need this and it has been 
keeping me from taking steps that would probably double my income. I am also 
trying to get my cat furniture inventory going as this has a large income 
potential too. We have a show coming up in Los Angeles California in less 
than two months which will have the obvious expenses and hopefully gret 
potential. Yesterday lack of sleep and distraction left me so irritable... I 
don't want to say what I did, but I will say I don't ever remember being so 
irritable as I'm usually quite pleasant. So I plan to go to the gym and spend 
the rest of the day and weekend working on cat furniture... something 
physical and hopefully relaxing. I will check and upload if I need to.

I hope in the next week or two to be able to move to the other server. I will 
check emails here.
-- 
Eric Laffoon
Project Lead - kdewebdev module