Difference between revisions of "DevelopmentTeamPriorities"

Current Plan Aug 16-31

The following lists shows the active Task during the second half of the August.

1. (3)CoalesceDevelopmentPlan for (Sept 1-15)
   
2. (1) Create Account Goes to Personal Page (Jason)
   
3. UserPortraits
4. (1) FixRegistrarBadge
   
5. Rewrite AboutUsBot
6. (6) Fine Grained Log Analysis (?)
   
7. (7) WelcomingTool (?)
   
8. (1) PresidentialScraper (?)
   
9. (3) OptOuttoNoBot (?)
   

Next Plan Sept 1-15

Page for DistributedPlanningGame for this first half of September is CoalesceDevelopmentPlan for (Sept 1-15)

NeedsLove

These [task]]s need to be moved to the current(Aug 15-31) or next plan(Sep 1-15) after adding a more descriptive what and why section on their pages.

1. Two javascript syntax errors on edit (Firefox) in EditorsMap.js and color_select.js
2. Fix lingering casespace issues (3) (Stephen)
3. (6) DevelopersTraining (Arif) (10-10)
   
   • History to Changes(8) (2)
4. (10) WhoisParsing (Arif Iqbal) (7-10)
   
5. (?) Articulate AboutUs Strategy (?)
   
   Project
6. (?) Engage anonymous editors (?)
   
7. ArticulateTopsoilArchitecture
8. TopsoilTasks Create three topsoil tasks that once accomplished move us closer to Topsoil AND immediately deliver some tangible value
9. (2) BotImprovesExistingPages (?)
   
10. CommonAnswers
11. (?) Weekly Search Results (?)
    
12. Create a user page and invite a friend

• Edit collisions by person
• Interview on site Exit
• Category edit box like on armchair gm
• Automatic breadcrumbs
• Fckeditor in wiki mode
• Work on the widget (needs lots of definition)
• Review WikiHow's patrolling methodology and cherry pick the best features
• GreenThumb browser plugin (aka user toolbar)
• URL Magic for trees
• Skinterface for trees
• Rating of web pages (up for debate)
• Threaded discussions on pages (up for debate)
• Chat
• Treat subdomains like normal domain pages
• Quote-back writeup
• AboutFace Facebook app ... very similar to widget
  • Transclude a wiki page on your facebook profile
  • List the top pages
  • List specific recent changes
  • ... others???
• Support linksharing partnerships

Done

1. HireLahoreDevelopers (7) (Arif)
2. MediaWiki:InitialDomainPage
3. CoalesceNextDevelopmentPlan (3) (Arif,Athar, Brandon, Ethan, Jason, Stephen, Ward)
4. Implement AdultContentPolicy 3 (11-14)(Stephen, Ward)
5. Site Design Adjustments (3) (Vinh, Stephen)
6. (1) Require email to register (?)
   
7. AutoProtect Email Addresses (1)
8. Change Graphic to Email (1)
9. Batch Patrol V2 (5)
10. HireSystemAdministrator (1, 5-1) ... (Brandon)
12. REDIRECT UpgradePlan
13. RationalizeArticleCapitalization (4, 2-1) ... (Stephen) - this is CaseSpace

Parking Lot

• Add Article to Category (1) ... Needs Mediawiki Upgrade
• (?) Add User Script (?)
  
• Alexa and DomainTools Links
• (?) Audio Streaming (?)
  
• See MeasureGrowth and MeasurePerformance instead.
• (?) Better OpenID Error Message (?)
  
• (?) OnMessageSearchResults (?)
  
• (3) PurgingAndAdultCategoryMarking (?) (5-2)
  
• Common Answers By Portal
• Common Answers
• Consistent Registrar Ads
• (3) WorkingDPL (?)
  
• Dev and CC Pair on Recent Changes Patrol
• DownForMaintenanceWiki (1)
• Easily Editable Vector Graphics (5) (Ali)
• Editable DomainPage Skeleton (1)
• Expandable Hierarchies
• External Link Styles
• IRC On Frontpage (2)
• IRC Recorder
• InfrastructurePlan

Xcode tools

• Available on OS X install DVD or from http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/

Git

• Download binary from http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/downloads/list?can=3
• Verify that git functions.

MacPorts

Download and install:

• http://www.macports.org/

MySQL

Download and install version 5.1.

• http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.53-osx10.6-x86_64.tar.gz/from/http://mysql.he.net/

Ruby

Download and install version 1.8.7p249

• ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p249.tar.gz

Build:

 mkdir /www
 ./configure --prefix=/www
 make
 make install

(edit .profile like so:)

 export PATH=/www/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

RubyGems

Download and install version 1.3.5

• http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz

ruby setup.rb

Misc. Libraries

Run these commands:

 sudo port install freeimage
 sudo port install gd2
 gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

AboutUs repos

 mkdir -p /www/aboutus ;
 cd /www/aboutus
 git clone :AboutUs/compostus.git
 git clone :AboutUs/electric_sheep.git
 cd /www/aboutus/compostus/compost
 gem install geminstaller
 geminstaller

Cassandra

 mkdir -p /www/compile
 cd /www/compile
 curl -O http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/apache/incubator/cassandra/0.5.0/apache-cassandra-incubating-0.5.0-bin.tar.gz
 tar xvf apache-cassandra-incubating-0.5.0-bin.tar.gz
 mv apache-cassandra-incubating-0.5.0 /www/cassandra
 cp /www/aboutus/compostus/cassandra/storage-conf.xml.devel /www/cassandra/conf/storage-conf.xml

Running:

 cd /www/cassandra
 ./bin/cassandra

Configure the app

• create databases

 mysql -u root
 create database compostus_wiki_test;
 create database compostus_wiki_dev;
 grant all on *.* to wiki@localhost identified by 'wiki';

• install sysop user

Documentation

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