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Website: News plugin revamped
by Maren Hachmann 26 Mar '16

26 Mar '16

Dear fellow website translators and editors, Martin has spent quite some time on revamping the website's news plugin, to improve the workflow for editors and translators, fix the current bugs which prevented us from editing/translating/creating news, and to make editing the news more comfortable. I really like how it has turned out, but look for yourself! These are the highlights: - News can now be created / edited / translated by accessing an extra menu item in the cms toolbar at the top of the page: It's labelled: "News" ;) (see screenshot) - Excerpts can now contain links, and other formatted content. - The editing interface allows you to use the WYSIWYG editor instead of needing to type in plain html. You can now add links by selecting text, then clicking on the link symbol, and style the text. Images or videos must be inserted via source mode, just like before. - Missing news translations are filled in by their English counterparts There's one known issue, due to a bug in the editor: - double-clicking to edit links will give you a dialog that doesn't allow you to edit anything. It also doesn't allow you to click on any close buttons in the dialog. -> To not loose your changes, just click on 'Save' for the parent dialog, and open it again after that. Instead of double-clicking, you can use one of the following options: - right-click on a link, select 'Edit Link' from the context menu - place the cursor somewhere in the link, then click on the link icon - or, lastly, switch to source mode and edit the <a href="http://example.com">link text</a> element in plain html. And one small inconvenience: After publishing a translation for the first time, you'll get a 404 (page not found) error. You can just remove the wrong (english) slug from the url, and hit enter, then you get to a day archive for your language that shows the article you just translated. Kind regards, Maren

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Website editing: Feedback needed
by Maren Hachmann 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

Hi website editors, while looking for something else, I discovered that there is an option to disable pasting anything but plain text into the website's text editor. This can help us prevent the known plugin copy accidents, where copying a plugin from one page to another one results in plugins that are the same on both pages, and when you edit one (i.e. translate it), then it also changes on the source page. But, this comes with some very severe disadvantages: - Formatted text that is copy-pasted looses all formatting (for example headings, bold text, anything). - Plugins cannot be copy-pasted (to move them) on any single page. (as a workaround, this is still possible in source mode) I'm in favour of keeping things as they are, but I wanted to ask for other's opinions. What do you think? Maren

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gallery upload quota
by Brynn 20 Mar '16

20 Mar '16

Hi Friends, An Inkscape user I know (Lazur) has created a number of resources and made them available for download. (document templates in the past, and more recently, filters) He usually uses Open Clipart for that, but I suggested putting them on the Inkscape website. Good idea, right? But his reply was a concern about his quota for the gallery. He's not near his quota, but doesn't want the filter files to affect it. So I'm wondering if there might already be a way to address this situation, through some way I haven't heard about. I suspect that website admins have individually increased the quota for certain members (jabiertxof, e.g.). Or do we need to regard this as a new issue for discussion (feature request "bug" report)? It seems like people who want to create Inkscape resources to share) (non-Artwork resources), should be able to upload them, without worrying about their quota. Thanks for your help :-) brynn

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new gallery spam
by Brynn 20 Mar '16

20 Mar '16

Hi Friends, Regarding recent discussions about spam in the gallery, I would identify this as something that needs to be removed, because they made a link to their website. https://inkscape.global.ssl.fastly.net/media/resources/file/sgd570_beauty_s… Note that it's the 3rd non-Inkscape-related image on the first page. The other 2 don't have links (at least not so far). Thanks, brynn

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Website Update: Changes for editors and translators
by Maren Hachmann 20 Mar '16

20 Mar '16

Dear fellow website editors and website translators, as Martin has undertaken the tedious work to shift the website to a postgresql database, the website is now fast enough for editing and translating again! There are a lot of changes for editors and still a few rough edges, so be sure to read about them below before you start (known issues at the bottom). CHANGES: ======== To how things look: ------------------- * All menues are now complete in all translation versions of the website. Missing items are filled by their English translation. * All pages that you navigate to in your language will be available. If the page is not yet translated or is empty, the English version will be shown instead. Note that the URL still shows that you are in your own 'language area'. * There's a 'Create' button now available in the top left. If you are a translator, you will never need this button. It is for creating new, non-translation pages. * Toolbar buttons look different now: See screenshots at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/WebSite Translators will probably never need to use the new 'Create' button. Editors can add pages via this new button, or they can use the pages admin interface as before. * Structure mode looks very different, as the display has been optimized for touch displays, but still works the same way as before. * pt-BR has finally been added ;) * We now have teams, there's one for website translators, and one for website editors. Visit their page and ask for a membership, if you're not part of one yet :) https://inkscape.org/teams/ To how things work: ------------------- * When you want to edit a page for the first time after the update, you will be asked to agree to publish your work under the website's licence. This will ensure that your work can be built upon by others in a safe manner. * The option 'Save draft' does no longer exist. It's now 'View published' which is a lot more logical, because we've done the saving already. * When you save a text plugin, you will be asked to fill in a short description of your changes at the bottom of the editor window. This little summary will be used for updating others about your changes (currently not working) * We now have an automatic Table of Contents plugin. Remember how ugly and annoying it was to hand-edit the TOC on the FAQ page? This is now no longer necessary. It may not look right in edit mode (as it's javascript based), but when you leave edit mode, the TOC will be there. This will ultimately save us a *lot* of work. * You can now use your browser's spell checker in the editor window. Open the context menu to change the spell checker language or other preferences by holding Ctrl while you do the right-click. * You can now subscribe to pages and get an update email when it has been edited. To do so, click on the 'Alerts' link in the tool bar. This functionality isn't mature yet, for example, the diffs which are linked from the messages don't exist. Note that you can edit your message settings when you click on the 'Message settings' link in your profile editing page (or here: https://inkscape.org/en/alerts/settings/ ). * All parts of the website are now freely available for translation. If you would like to translate the .po files for the non-cms-managed contents, you will find instructions here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/WebSite#Translating_other_parts_of_… IMPORTANT BUG FIXES: ==================== * 'Empty all' now really only empties your own language's plugins, no longer those of other languages. * The new django version fixes many security issues, the old one was no longer maintained. * All empty, extremely outdated, or only-copied-from-English translations have been removed. The menu titles have been kept when they existed, but they are now filled in by their English counterparts until a translation is made. This way, they will all be up-to-date always. KNOWN ISSUES: ============= * IMPORTANT: When you click on 'Publish' for a page, nothing will happen for a few seconds. Only then does the loading animation start. This is normal now. Don't click on 'Publish' twice, just wait until it starts by itself. Every click on this button will send a mail to all subscribers, and add to the server load. Also, incomplete saves have been seen as a result. * Sometimes, 'Publish' is not available, even if you made changes to some plugins. In this case, go to Page -> Unpublish Page in the toolbar, and when it has been unpublished, click on the big blue 'Publish now' button to publish it again. * Sometimes, the 'Edit' button is not available. Then you can still edit the page by going to Page -> Edit this Page in the toolbar. * The 'Pages' overview in the admin interface (if you have permission to access it) is optimized for touch and widescreen devices. It's extremely difficult to use on a 4:3 screen, as the contents doesn't fit on the page, and the javascript doesn't work correctly when you zoom out. * Copy-pasting any plugins (and changing them after this) will result in the plugin source page (i.e. the English page in most cases) being altered. Never copy plugins! Only copy contents using a detour via a *plain text editor*. * Hitting 'Enter' while editing a plugin in a pop-up dialog may loose previous page edits. ================== Not sure if I captured /everything/, but I hope this will help you to find your way around the new website (and the mail is really long enough now ;) ). The Wiki page that describes the workflow (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/WebSite) has been updated to reflect the current status, so if in doubt, you can look there for info, too, or just ask on the list. If you notice anything weird that isn't mentioned here, encounter a bug or need more info about something, please send a message to the mailing list (translators or inkscape-docs). Happy editing and translating, kind regards, Maren

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non-Inkscape image in gallery
by Brynn 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Hi Friends (website team), I'm reporting images here, until the report system allows for the reporter to add comments. (Maybe I should make a feature request for that?) https://inkscape.org/en/~UptownKas/%E2%98%85kas The member may well have created the logo in Inkscape, but it's a photo of (probably) his kids (or her kids?). It could be perfectly innocent misunderstanding. But could also just be advertising....although they didn't make any outside links. Should they be contacted? Remind me how much space a regular member gets? Thanks, brynn

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Competition News
by Martin Owens 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

Dear Inkscapers, A competition to design a t-shirt has been announced: https://inkscape.org/en/news/2016/02/18/fossasia-and-openclipart-t-shirt-de… I'd like to use this as a test of our media handling network capabilities. If you look after our facebook, twitter, google+ deviantArt accounts, please post the news above and send me a personal email when complete. (some of these accounts are in the shared password file, but I'm interested in people's ability to post news) Website and Mailing Lists have been completed. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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gallery views - last updated
by Brynn 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Hi Martin, Maren, and all, I'm curious about the Last Updated category, for gallery viewing. Is that essentially last uploaded? I think there needs to be a last uploaded category, but I'm not sure exactly what to ask for, if I make a feature request. When I actually choose that category, whether I look at it from the "top" or "bottom", I don't think it is last uploaded. In fact, it's images I don't really recognize...even though I have the Artwork category selected. It's possible a bunch of new images were uploaded since the last time I looked at the gallery. So I just want to be sure how it's supposed to work. If it's not last uploaded, and it really is last updated, I'm wondering why visitors would want to look at that category. I can see why an admin might want to, but not a regular visitor. Or does it have something to do with comments posted to an image? Thanks for clarity :-) brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-docs] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Hackfest: Who will attend?
by Brynn 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Ok :-) Started writing forum posts, but realize there's nothing to link to on the website. So this reply is also addressed to the Docs list. Should there be a brief news item on the website? Or like last year....iirc, there was a page under Support menu. My preference would be for both a brief news item, and updated page under Support menu. What do you all think? Hhmm....trying for convenience, I might have just caused a problem. I tried to reset my pw on the website, but I'm not receiving the new email, which I seem to recall, there might be a problem with. Can someone please send me a new pw? Then maybe I can update the old HF page and/or write a very short news item -- assuming everyone else agrees with those? Thanks, brynn -------------------------------------------------- From: "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...6...> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 2:09 AM To: "Brynn" <brynn@...78...>; "Inkscape-devel" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Hackfest: Who will attend? > On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 14:46 -0700, Brynn wrote: >> Ok if I announce in forums? Also maybe a note on the website? > > I think that would be OK... but please indicate that the date and place > are tentative. > > Thanks, > > Tav > >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...6...> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 5:58 AM >> To: "Inkscape-devel" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> >> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Hackfest: Who will attend? >> >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > We are planning an Inkscape hackfest[1] in Leeds just before the >> > Libre >> > Graphics Meeting[2] in London. To help plan this event we need to >> > have >> > an idea of how many people would attend. Please reply here or send >> > a >> > private email to me if you are interested. As with last years >> > hackfest[3], travel support will be offered to developers and >> > others >> > active in the Inkscape project ($500-$2000). >> > >> > Dates: >> > Hackfest: 11-13 April 2016 (tentative) >> > LGM: 15-18 April 2016 >> > >> > Tav >> > >> > [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2016 >> > [2] http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2016/ >> > [3] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015 >> > >> > >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> > ------------- >> > Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application >> > Performance >> > APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month >> > Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now >> > Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! >> > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Inkscape-devel mailing list >> > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >> >

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bad gateway, slow loading
by Brynn 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Hi Friends, I'm getting intermittent Bad Gateway on the live site. Very slow loading, when it loads. And consistently on staging. 7:45 and 7:50 am MST. Let me know if I can provide any further info :-) brynn

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