User:LFaraone/Work/2011-W3

Tasks done

• Help Jared fix a botched git commit.

• Provide Adam with information on managing planet.l.o. Keep in mind at present time we still only have one person manning the planetmaster@l.o address that I know of.

• • Help siteowners clean up their content for syndication.

• Rename "news summary" <http://one.laptop.org/summary/> to just "summary", and "blog" <http://one.laptop.org/news/> to "news". Make the "news" link on the top bar link to "blog"/"news" rather than "news summary"/"summary" [easy, .5hr]

• Miscl GSG fixes

Notes

• Drupal is a maze of twisty passages, all subtly different

• www-staging's admin interface is currently broken and has a security update needed. Do we still care about maintaining this? Is GT responsible for updates etc?
  • Missing elements that make the site very very hard to use include: <http://www-staging.laptop.org/sites/default/files/js/js_1bbb809863cac0642b2327e031bcbf19.jsmin.js> and <http://www-staging.laptop.org/sites/default/files/css/css_378eb5dd4aab9b772744e904702acbb1.css>
    • <http://www-staging.laptop.org/admin> mention that those files are "not properly configured"

• Fixing <http://one.laptop.org/news> took over an hour and a contact with Upstatement. The text was controlled via a "hacky title substitution". How many other things like this might we find that we want to change in the future?

• I remember seeing a Wordpress→Drupal module looks like it has some support for path rewriting.

  WordPress redirects, attachments and custom fields are not imported, patches welcome.

from [1].

Currently working on

• Investigate the means by which we could import feeds a la planet.
  • We'll want to have a subset of Planet syndicated, subject to manual approval [medium, 3hr]

Future tasks

• Determine a migration path for URLs on the old blog.laptop.org instance to Drupal
  • Current URL schemes are incompatible.

• Figure out if we want to keep Wordpress for blog.l.o, and somehow integrate it with Drupal. This eliminates the above URL issue, but add new ones, namely:
  • Unify visual style. b.l.o looks decidedly un-one.l.o-like.
  • Single-user-login between Drupal and Wordpress.

• Color coded key for newswall.

• Duplicate database for www-staging if it turns out to be needed, double check this.

• Follow up on mailman migration with Ed et al.