The last five days have seemed both like an eternity and an eye blink, all over a word - Habari - that many people are just recently becoming aware of.
Maybe you first noticed when Chris J. Davis switched his blogging software away from WordPress. After that, dominos started falling, with posts about it from interesting corners of meta-blogdom. It's really been hard to keep up with the influx of interested people and do development and have a life. Thanks so much to Berta for her support during this process, which is undoubtly greatly attributed to her being tired of hearing me complain about WordPress.
So what's the big deal, anyway? Maybe people have said they're interested, but without actually dipping into the small-but-growing community and asking around, it might be hard to get a sense of what any of this really means. Let me cover a few of the common questions and misunderstandings surrounding Habari....
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The most often asked question regarding WordPress 2.0 is, "When is it coming out?" Well, that's going to be this week.
The second most often asked question regarding WordPress 2.0 is, "What is changed?" I think I wrote about that before.
The third most often asked question regarding WordPress 2.0 is, "Will my plugins and/or themes work?" Uh.... Possibly? more
With the looming release of WordPress 2.0, there are a bunch of folks that are submitting bug fixes that say things like, "I would submit this to Trac, but I don't know how."
I think even more people are suggesting that writing to the mailing list with their bugs to "confirm" them is better than submitting them directly to Trac. I suppose if you're not sure something is a bug, it might be worthwhile to ask someone else (I would ask on IRC at #wordpress on irc.freenode.net) but it really is better to have a formal record of an issue, even if it turns out that what you're experiencing is expected behavior. If you really fear that it's something to do specifically with your installation, check on IRC or maybe try a fresh install.
Nevertheless, it might be useful to folks to learn how I do it. I'm not saying my method is correct, just that it seems to get the job done with few complaints from the devs who commit my patches. It's also a good method to use on Windows. (Sorry, someone else can document command-line Subversion use - not that I don't know it, I'm just lazy.) Here we go... more
For anyone interested in helping bring WordPress 1.6 into the world, now is your chance.
This weekend we're having a bug hunt. There are many roles to play even if you're not an experienced coder. We need folks to verify reported issues and test patches, and the more people are available, I imagine the better the effort will be.
Skippy recommends that you have a WordPress blog to test from. This is preferrably going to be something you're not insistant on keeping alive, but rather a local WordPress install that you can mangle and rebuild, since we'll be working with the 1.6 alpha. I'm told that 1.5.2 bugs are going to be considered, too, if they haven't already been fixed. more
I'm still recording chapter 9, which looks like it might not make 10pm, so I'm posting this temporary filler-like post with some actual useful information.
Some folks are having some WordPress issues with their Blogathon blogs. There are a few helpful folks over at the IRC server right now fielding questions. It's not an official support vector, but you might be able to get support faster there than on the official support forums. Speed is of the essence in keeping your Blogathon site going.
In fact, ryanduff was able to confirm a few things over IRC about my own hosting problems. So it was useful for me, too....
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