[kforge-dev] Changeset [1223]: Update docstrings for all the plugins to ensure they have proper …

[John Bywater]

Rufus Pollock wrote:
>> Shall we try firstly to make svn+trac+dav+www work out of the box? 
>> (Or would you prefer to have nothing working out of the box?)
>
> My preference is to move to have nothing working out of the box.

The advantage is nothing is /broken/ out of the box!

> Each and every plugin (trac and svn especially) have dependencies that 
> need to be installed to work so I would suggest people install them in 
> the normal manner rather than have us trying to second guess what 
> works. Perhaps as compromise we could copy the install in formation 
> currently in the docstrings into the config file so it is ultra 
> obvious what needs to be done.

Ultra obvious would be nice. :-)


>> Or do you think we can reach to having any or all of moin, wordpress, 
>> and mailman too? I think if we standardised on Debian, then we could 
>> easily do that. Then we could have a patch file of some sort (poss 
>> manual instructions) for each machine variant from the standard, 
>> collected from users' experience.
>
> I think this is something that should be left outside of pure kforge 
> and should be part of e.g. a debian package (which can then ensure 
> than trac, moinmoin, subversion are installed and make the necessary 
> mods to the config file).

OK, let's have a "pure kforge", and then a downstream of Debian packages 
etc.

>> I know all the plugins are pretty much in good order, but I think we 
>> need to clean things up somewhat for our users. Otherwise we might 
>> start generating loads of email queries. Not exactly sure what is 
>> needed, but I reckon we should really try again to do things 
>> test-first. Shall we schedule some CB2 time? I think it would be good 
>> to at least review the web tests f2f.
>
> Let me give you a call about this.

Speak soon.

Best wishes,

John.

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> ~rufus
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