[Bf-docboard] Bf-docboard Digest, Vol 92, Issue 1

[Dan McGrath]

Hey,

Sure, I will keep it in mind. It is going to take me a bit of time to
get reaquainted with everything again anyways.


Dan

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Kesten Broughton
<solarmobiletrailers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey dan,
>
> while you are investigating upgrades, can you check out the options on
> mediawiki for wysiwyg editors.  We would want to provide users with this or
> source editing options.
>
> thanks
>
> kesten
>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Dan McGrath <danmcgrath.ca at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Heya Ton,
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
>> > Since you have an account, I would be very pleased to have you help with
>> > installing/upgrading mediawiki.
>> > Is that possible?
>>
>> In theory, I don't think that upgrading the software would be hard to
>> do from an installation point of view, but I would have to research
>> into the version differences and what not first to ensure that all of
>> the current modules we use are still available. Ideally I would need
>> to test on the dev db first, which would need a sync with the live db
>> once etc., so would take quite a bit of work/testing first.
>>
>>
>> > On the 'wall of text': I would suggest to remove the Sphinx search and
>> > put a simple google search button in place. I didn't understand everything
>> > in your long text, but "Sphinx" seems to be the cause of everything that's
>> > complicated and hard to work with. Remove complexity, we don't need it.
>>
>> >From what I remember (I actually did some quick tests a while back for
>> this), switching to google is a pretty straightforward thing to do. As
>> for sphinx, the install and setup itself could stay in place, even
>> though it wouldn't be used. It would just mean a bit of wasted CPU
>> cycles every day when the cron job runs, at least until I can either
>> get Marco to remove the cron, or check on my access to do so (I am not
>> the most familiar with the quirks of FreeBSD as I am with say Linux,
>> that's all). But to fully remove Sphinx properly might require some
>> help from Francesco as the current skin has a bunch of
>> html/php/templates in place that put the search box in place and issue
>> the URL's that hook into the search.
>>
>> Anyways, just got back and ill be showing up in irc shortly here.
>>
>>
>> Dan
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