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Ahat Twiki Log

The AhatTwikiLog is a place where the TWikiAdminGroup log changes made to the twiki and any administrative issues that need documentation. Since there are many of us, to assist in inter-admin communication i thought it would be good to have a central place where you could log important changes in reverse chronological order. If email is sufficient for inter-admin comm then I guess we can ignore it, or just leave it as a record in the twiki for the really important stuff to be logged?? --People.RobertSajan - 16 May 2008

I think it is a good idea to log important stuff here, so let's nag each other in email. I'm putting a reference to this log into LocalSite.cfg on the server, as well as copying the comments that are there to here. -- HilaryHolz - 17 May 2008

Please add your new log items via the comment box below...

I think it's better, on the whole, not to worry about whether something is a major change or a minor, but to log stuff so as not to end up digging around for info. In that spirit, ..., we could really, really use the BibtexPlugin? functioning correctly, which it is not. Looking at config, what I see is that v1.4 is the most recent version, while the installed version is 13643. Those are incompatible formats, so I consult the home of the plugin on twiki.org and see that there is a version 1.5 listed, although the current version is still set at 1.4. Hmmmm.... ok, this is sufficiently complex that it's going to get it's own working notes topic - OnBibtexPlugin	HilaryHolz	16 Mar 2009 - 14:00
We need to apply the DRY principle from Python to this process, so that log comments are visible here and in the appropriate places in the configuration files, etc. I've been working on a similar facility for AhatSkin with it's installer, but this seems to me to be a separate script (although the same concept.) In any case, I'm confident that DRY is why this log falls out of use - because the documentation gets kept closest to where it is used. The problem, though, is that with multiple and/or changing admins, no central record is necessarily kept and the log is certainly not easily accessed. This is an illustration of Python's real strengths...	HilaryHolz	14 Mar 2009 - 14:39
This seems like a true log item... I modified the look'n'feel of the comment boxes, so that they were more obviously comment boxes, in response to a variety of feedback from multiple folks. Seems that the 'add comment' off to the right tends to not get scanned (well, duh...) as people scan the page. Moved the 'add comment' button to a much more visually prominent location, and offset the comment area with a horizontal rule. Achieved same in what appears to be the most maintainable way - by adding a UserCommentsTemplate? topic to the TWiki web and overloading the default promptbox in it.	HilaryHolz	11 Sep 2008 - 16:03
Old comments from LocalSite.cfg # HJH - 05/08/2008, Ahah! Embedded comments sometimes break processing. Wow. # HJH - 05/08/2008, If you set Wysiwyg to 0, wysiwyg still runs but Natskin does not! # HJH - 05/08/2008, order is significant for some plugins to work # HJH - 05/08/2008, NatSkinPlugin depends on: BreadCrumbs, Filter, FlexWebList, Glue, IfDefined, RedDot # also, interacts with TablePlugin, so could be said to depend on it, as well. so NOT alphabetical... # HJH - 05/08/2008, NatSkin depends on: NatSkinPlugin, NatEditContrib, JQueryPlugin # so NOT alphabetical... # HJH - 05/08/2008, NatEditContrib depends on TinyMCEPlugin, which depends on WysiwygPlugin # HJH - 05/15/2008, well, well, NatEditContrib does NOT need TinyMCE, so rip that right out	HilaryHolz	16 May 2008 - 19:17
dayz twiki cron file was not updated with the correct paths. It is now.	RobertSajan	26 Mar 2008 - 15:13
AHAT twiki login/registration procedure changed - users once they log in the front door via apache can browse the twiki, but will need to register/login if they want to make any changes. - The original login/logout procedure caused a lot of usability problems. Every user now, once registered, has their own "twiki home page". Twiki formating issues like a logout/login link is available, user admin setting works, and many other problems are also fixed. - If we need to revert, all that's needed is to search the Ahat.LocalSite.cfg file for "RPS - 03252008", read the comments, and undo appropriately.	RobertSajan	25 Mar 2008 - 23:15
Ahat Twiki Log started	RobertSajan	24 Mar 2008 - 20:32