24 - Jul - 2003
[17:03] [/] Comments have been enabled!
Support for comments has finally been enabled. Some work is still required on the comment support (in particular the style sheets) but for the most part they seem to be working as expected. Comment below if you find any problems. (If they are completely broken and you can't use them, let me know by private feedback.
Until I am fully happy with the commenting system, I am liable to delete all comments or turn them off at will. You have been warned!
Flames/trolls/very offtopic comments will be deleted without warning.
[17:02] [/] Format of syndication feeds
Although I read a number of weblogs frequently I've yet to start using any type of feed reader, hence I'm not sure what is required of a good feed. I've already received one request for a modification on the feeds I provide and when I find time I will add it to what is already available.
What do other people think? Have I got enough already? Would you like to see other formats or other information in the feeds?
Share your thoughts in the comments
17 - Jul - 2003
[15:57] [/] Syndication Feeds Working
The RSS etc. feeds should now be working as intended. You'll have to subscribe to each product you want to track separately. If anyone really wants a single feed that tracks all products, let me know.
I should have comments working at the weekend by the latest (they require a little more tweaking of my flavour files - i.e. (py)blosxoms templates).
16 - Jul - 2003
[12:38] [/] Bonsai Bugs v2w
Welcome to the new look Bonsai Bugs. As the most frequented page on backprop.net I have chosen to update it first with the new look intended for the rest of the site (much of the rest of the site is built using Movable Type templates and these will take a while for me to fully update). In the mean time if you have any comments on this news look, please let me know.
In the near future I have an updated script to generate the bug listings but before I can install that I'll have to understand pyblosxom a little better and I have to convert it to use a different XML parsing library (my host doesn't have pyexpat installed - a fact I only discovered after writing the script with it).
Bonsai Bugs now uses pyblosxom to control access to the bug lists. This is a big improvement on the unwieldy PHP page I used previously. Now to add a new branch, I just have to edit my scripts and not the PHP too - if you ever noticed the Mozilla 1.4 branch checkins option missing, it was because I would forget to update the PHP occasionally!
The new features of Bonsai Bugs include:
- Longer history - I'm not sure how long I will keep checkin histories but it should be significantly longer than the current week (probably 1-2 months)
- All tracked branches/directories/products are presented on a daily basis
Features that are coming soon include:
- Read the latest checkins through your aggregator. XML,TXT and ESF feeds available now. More can be added on request. This only has the top level entries for now. This is my top priority to fix.
- Comments can be left for a particular days checkins This will hopefully be enabled soon.