Grant Report : Revitalize blogs.perl.org : December 2018
Mon, 21-Jan-2019 by
Mark A Jensen
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He made the following report to the TPF Grants Committee on 3 Jan 2019 (edited by me). I will also backpost another report André made to the Committee in Aug 2018 shortly.
> The work I set out to do for the grant on blogs.perl.org is almost complete. Here is a breakdown of what is done, what is missing for a first release, and what should be improved post release/grant (in my opinion).
> Since the last update, I've been working on adding comments to the system, since I had decided to leave that for last. That meant adding back the schema, implementing a nice design for it, tests and whatnot. That is done, although there's always room for improvement :) In this case in the UI mainly, since I'm not a designer / front-end dev.
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> I also added support for the old passwords...
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> I spent a long time implementing helpers for theming, mostly copied from Ghost. This gives us room to improve the UI. A coworker, friend of mine, who is a designer, offered to improve the layout. This shouldn't delay anything for me, only improve the result.
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> Finally, I also added feed support (rss, atom), since I understand many visitors use it for the current site.
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> What's missing:
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> - the search -- most hooks in the backend are already in place, there are even tests done for the search via the HTTP API. But there's no page for the search results, so I need to create one. ...
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> So, search is halfway done, import shouldn't take long, it sounds like less than a week's worth of work.
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> There are improvements to the anti-spam feature I implemented, UI changes, better tests and so on, but I think these can be done gradually afterwards. I can imagine small bugs showing up as we release, but if I hold the code to myself trying to perfect it, it will be of no use.
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MAJ
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