1. Meta Wiki: discussion about the Cloudy trac site
    1. RSS feeds
      1. The problem
      2. The solution
        1. Update
    2. How to improve the site navigation
      1. Stage 1: ASCII mockups of what we want
      2. Stage 2: implementation
    3. Changing the look and feel
      1. Do we want to modify the use CamelCase links?
    4. Plugins
    5. Original Trac Wiki Intro (moved from the main page)
      1. Starting Points

Meta Wiki: discussion about the Cloudy trac site

RSS feeds

The problem

The Timeline and New Tickets have RSS feeds available. However, the fact that they use https causes problems for some readers.

The solution

Will Henney has laundered the feeds by re-syndicating them through his Google Reader account. You can view them at this page, or use this Atom feed to subscribe to them in your favorite RSS reader. Since the laundered feed uses plain old http, it should work with any software. You can even use RSSfwd to have notifications sent to you email account.

Update

Google Reader seems to be very slow to update the feed. For instance, it is more than an hour since I last edited this page and the notification still hasn't showed up there.

How to improve the site navigation

Stage 1: ASCII mockups of what we want

See NewSiteNavigation.

Stage 2: implementation

Once Stage 1 is complete, we will need to code it up in html and stick it in templates/site_header.cs (requires root access to server).

Changing the look and feel

How to do this is described in TracInterfaceCustomization. At least the logo has now been changed, but Ryan implied that this needed root access, which was problematical. However, it seems that you can do a lot of customization using CSS, which can easily be prototyped by loading a personalised stylesheet into the browser, as I describe in CssPrototyping.

An example of a more extensive skinning of the interface is the Twisted site. A brief description of how to go about this is given here. Unfortunately, all these examples require the 0.11dev version of Trac, whereas we are still using 0.10.

Will:

  • I think activating the ignore_missing_pages option would be a good idea, so that camel case variable names won't get interpreted as wiki page links.

Plugins

What trac extensions do we want to have installed?

Original Trac Wiki Intro (moved from the main page)

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Starting Points

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