Blog

Goal

Support the Fellowship blogging platform.

Coordinator

• cri

People

• cri

• attitude

• marklindhout

• pb AT fsfe DOT org wrote on f-h@ about it
• Gianluca Campanella had some useful contacts with Jeff Waugh (the guy who implemented a similar platform for GNOME Blogs)

• pboddie

Volunteers are always welcome! Have a look at FellowshipHacks to know how you can help

Status

Updated: 120204

We are in the "support" phase, working to fix bugs and improve the platform.

Tasks

You can create a page for a new task using the button below. Just enter the name for the page and it will be automatically created as a subpage of this project page.

Bugs

(there are no open bugs at the moment)

Improvements

• Improve our custom wordpress themes stored in the fsfe-blogs subversion repository;

  • To check out a working copy of the repository using the svn command line client:

        svn --username yourusername co https://svn.fsfe.org/fsfe-blogs  yourlocaldir

  • To get write access to the repository, please write to <fellowship-hackers AT fsfeurope DOT org>.

  • We have a task page for each of our custom themes:

    • The "Pome" wordpress theme

    • The "Classic Green" wordpress theme

    • The "Atahualpa" wordpress theme

• Improve the page with usage instructions for blogs

• Decide how to manage post licenses

• Improve performance
  • Solutions to evaluate

    • Apache caching features: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/caching.html

    • Wordpress plugins for object cache (must check if supported by WPMU!)

      • Memcached: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/memcached/trunk/

      • Filesystem: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=14

      • Xcache: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=12

      • eAccelerator: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=13

    • Wordpress plugins for full-page cache (must check if supported by WPMU!)

      • WP Super Cache: http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/

• Plugins
  • Signature management plugins

    • http://www.dakars.info/wordpress/plugins/add-graphic-signature/

    • http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ft-signature-manager/

    • http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/add-signature-plugin-for-wordpress/

    • This adds a signature to the RSS feed: http://www.smackfoo.com/plugins/sig2feed/

  • Check out interesting plugins used on blogs.gnome.org: http://blogs.gnome.org/blog/2007/11/18/cool-plugins-on-blogsgnomeorg/

  • Check out the buddypress suite of WP plugins: http://buddypress.org/

  • Check out interesting stuff on http://wpmudev.org/

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Log

(DONE) First manual migration test

The goal of this milestone is to have a working migration procedure, tested manually on some selected blogs.

• (DONE) Set up WPMU (http://mu.wordpress.org) and the LDAP plugin to use our LDAP server.

• Set up a manual migration procedure (from EZ to WPMU) for some test blogs (see the page for status details)

• fix the dot-in-names bug

(DONE) Automatic migration test

The goal is to automate the migration procedure and test it running it on ALL current blogs.

• Find out how to create users and blogs in batch mode

• Find out how to import RSS feeds in batch mode

• Test the script for automatic migration of data (from EZ to WPMU) for all current blogs

• Fix the migration procedure, according to feedback given during the test on selected blogs

  • Fix line breaks (and preformatted text) in blog posts

• Decide and communicate schedule for the final release
• Prepare a wiki page with minimal user documentation

(DONE) Final release

The goal is to release the new blog platform and turn off the old one (after a short overlapping period).

• Install the admin-ssl WP plugin to force https for login/editing operations

• Decide default settings for blogs and enforce them

• Fix the script for automatic migration, according to feedback given during the test on all blogs

• Setup antispam measures

• Customisation of pages, CSS, graphics, artwork...

• Set up redirect rules on apache to redirect old URLs to new ones

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