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Re: Themes.html Help
  • 2007/3/5 20:16

  • Herko

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Quote:

rabideau wrote:
Also why do you want to use the admin area footer for your main theme??
Admin area footer? To the best of my knowledge the <{$xoops_footer}> smarty tag is used for the generated footer (which could be more dynamic, hence the smarty tag).

Herko



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Herko
Re: Xoops 2.3/2.4 or 3.0 update?
  • 2007/3/5 6:45

  • Herko

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Quote:

comflash2 wrote:
Agree with you. now, even Drupal can outperform XOOPS in Googgle Trend (user search frequency, reflects to popularity). XOOPS looks dying slowly. I wanna contribute something, but XOOPS seriously lack of documentation. Last time, i already said (SEE HERE), better hold all development and concentrate the documentation, so more people can contribute instead of rely on a few talented people (they may be busy with real life).

You're sending mixed singals here. Concentrate and inform about the development, or documentation? And who should do this concentrating? The community?
But you're right, XOOPS is falling back in the polls, and something should be done about that. See my previous post above, and you'll see something IS being done about it. Maybe not fast enough for everyones taste, but hey, it's a community effort.
Quote:
p/s: Why XOOPS even not involve Google Summer of Code (SEE HERE)? Thats FREE talented programmer will help XOOPS. There is a lot of other Open Source project involve, including Drupal and Joomla.

two reasons:
1. we're not drupal and/or joomla. sounds silly, but when you look at it, it's just as silly as saying that because they're there, we should be too.
2. the core devs are streched thin as it is, and these new talents need to be mentored by people who know what they're doing (aka core developers). These are the people that the community think should concentrate on development, communication, documentation, marketing, external contacts, integration of 3rd party scripts and support.

Maybe the GSC will happen for XOOPS if a developer steps up to be the mentor. That would be great, INHO.

Anyone in the community willing to be the mentor for the FREE new talent (talent is never free!) in the Google Summer of Code??

Herko



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Re: Xoops 2.3/2.4 or 3.0 update?
  • 2007/3/5 6:37

  • Herko

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You are right, of course. An update on development is indeed a good idea.

So, what has the XOOPS community been doing with the development of XOOPS 2.3/2.4/3/0 or 4.0? How many members of the community have looked into the public alpha's that have been released a while ago? How many of you did a checkout of the SVN and looked into the code and started working with it? How many of you have reported their findings back to the code development team?
These are no accusations to the community at large or anyone specific for that matter. These are questions I ask because somehow people feel that they can speak for 'the community' and ask (or demand in some cases) the 'core development staff' on an update of their work. And I thought that this was an open source software community where the community made the software. In other words: there is no staff of dedicated developers woring 'for the community', but a small (and thinly streched) group of people donating their (limited) free time and expertise to take up a huge task and responsibitily of bringing together all the community work and forging it into a cutting edge cms.
And this brings me to my other point, in fact, the one I started with. The responsibility that comes with the task of being a core developer means you have to communicate every now and again. And that hasn't happened lately. So I'll add my voice to this and ask for an update on what is happening.

We already know some of the things that are going on: JMorris explains in this thread:
Quote:
I am no longer on the Management Team, so I cannot claim to be an "Official" representative of XOOPS other than my Moderator role entitles me to. However, I still am in contact with the people who are developing this CMS and I can say a few things to help shed some light as to what is going on...

Server Migration
I'm currently working with the Foundation Chairman (Herko) and the Lead Developer (Skalpa) on migrating XOOPS.org's websites to more powerful servers that will better handle the load these sites receive. This is an enormous task that requires a significant amount of planning and background work before the first site can be moved. Herko is involved because he has the contacts and manages the finances that will be covering this expense. Skalpa is involved because the server needs certain configuration changes that he will have to specify.

Core Development
There are a few developers who are actively working on coding the core. This includes, but is not limited to Skalpa, phppp, and Rowd. I'm sure there are others, but I can only say those 3 for sure. Each one is working on a seperate aspect of the development of XOOPS. However, each of these people has had to take on numerous other tasks as well, which has slowed development down some. Development has not stopped. It's just that there isn't much going on publically.

Site Restructuring
There is a team of members and developers working on this, but each is also responsible for other tasks as well, so progrees is moving, but is a bit slow. A lot will also depend on the server migration we are working on, so they have other people they have to wait on.

Why "Key" people have not been posting
Simply put... There are only 24 hours in a day and I know for a fact that Skalpa has been working 18-20hrs a day for quite some time. He simply doesn't have time to post on this site. He and others who would normally update the community have been so busy working on development, site restructuring, server migration, and all the other tasks necessary to keep this project going that they barely have enough time for rest.

I'm not making excuses for them. I'm stating the facts as I have observed them for over 2 years of knowing these people on a personal level.

Again, I must emphasize that the above is not the "Official" word of XOOPS. It is only my observations based on my conversations with the people who are doing the work. Please take it for what it is worth.

Thanks,

JM


Herko.

Quote:

toddherrold wrote:
I think it's about time for the XOOPS community to get an update on the development of the next version of Xoops, whatever that may be called at this point - 2.3, 2.4, 3.0 or 4.0. . . whether it is ever to be released and whether development continues or not.

It's been over 1 year since 2.3 alpha was released with many promises of official versions shortly thereafter . . . and then there was nothing. I see in the SVN that the last 2.3 update was 3 months ago by Skalpa.

http://xoops.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xoops/XoopsCore/trunk/?sortdir=down

What happened over the last year at Xoops? Why no communication? It seems like XOOPS is dying a slow and painful death.



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Herko
Re: drag and drop blocks?!?
  • 2007/3/2 14:30

  • Herko

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I'd much rather have this at the administration side of the system, and not at the front-end. If I designed a page a certain way, the blocks are supposed to be where they are But using this to place the blocks for every page type, it will make creating decent pages real easy!

Of couse, the front-end option should be available, but IMHO not by default.

Herko



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Herko
Re: What forums does Xoops.org use?
  • 2007/3/1 10:15

  • Herko

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Hi and welcome to XOOPS.org!

The forum XOOPS.org uses is called CBB which can be found here. The latest version is 3.0.8. Please read the installation instructions carefully!

As for a clan management module, check out Mithrandir's Team module here.

Hope this will help you get started!

Herko



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Re: Block Refreshing
  • 2007/2/26 19:35

  • Herko

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Sure you can, use an iframe for the block, and reload the contents of the file the iframe calls.

Herko



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Re: Remove module link from main menu block
  • 2007/2/26 16:45

  • Herko

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This is easy to achieve: go to system admin -> modules, and set the 'weight' property of the module you want to hide from the main menu to '0' (zero). This will hide it from the menu!

Herko



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Herko
Re: NetProject, Groupware Introduction
  • 2007/2/26 10:28

  • Herko

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this project is probably dead.

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Herko
Re: Moving Xoops Site to new Host
  • 2007/2/23 12:22

  • Herko

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Quote:

JAVesey wrote:
Funny that we should both ask the same question at the same time

There's this FAQ to get going with.

Dang.. you beat me to it

Herko



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Herko
Re: Moving Xoops Site to new Host
  • 2007/2/23 12:21

  • Herko

  • XOOPS is my life!

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Quote:

dpbohr wrote:
Has anyone had any experience in moving a XOOPS site to another host provider? I need help in locating the information needed to do so. I would like to be able to maintain the information in the forums, as well as all the gallery pics and such. If anyone could help out with this, or point me to some documentation, that would be GREAT!!! Thanks in advance for your help!

Captain_Bohr
Genesisfleet.com


We have an excellent FAQ section that covers this question among others: How do I move my site from one server to anoother?.

Remember: make a complete backup of your website files and database before you start, just to be sure!

Herko




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