Asymptomatic

Khaled, I'll save the rhetoric and be blunt. You clearly have had more passion about Habari's design over the long term and of late than anyone else. Anything in this that reads like an attack is probably coming across more strenuously than I meant it, and it's not directed at you personally, but these specific ideas. Just to be clear.

You didn't understand the intent of the original request for the logo.

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Here comes the busiest conference time of the year - September. Apart from school starting, which probably merits its own posting (assuming I can ever get back into the swing of regular writing on this blog), there are any number of conferences to attend this month and next.

This month, I've got plane tickets to hit Columbus, Ohio for the Habari Party -- an event whose name I'm not fond of, but is good enough for the purposes of celebrating the third year of Habari development. It sure does not seem like it's been that long. While I'm there, I'll also be popping by the Columbus PHP Meetup chapter with skippy to pitch Habari in some fashion.

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I upgraded Habari to the latest 0.7, where all of the plugin configuration has changed, and I put my site into maintenance mode while I was doing it so that visitors wouldn't break stuff while I was working.

And I forgot to turn off Maintenance Mode.

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You didn't notice, but I complete changed the way I look today.

No, it's ok. I put hours, literal hours into looking this good, and you've said nothing about it. But that's fine.

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“I am trying to port a WordPress theme over to Habari the only way I know how. Step 1- Make mess. Step 2- Flail around making mess worse. Step 3- Somehow clean up mess miraculously. Step 4- Make another mess and repeat process.”

This kind of thing is an indictment of what Habari is all about. our community has been struggling for some time to produce themes as easily as some other publishing systems. Since there are a lot of themers coming from WordPress looking into Habari, they're looking for similar features in Habari's theming system that aren't quite ripe for use. There are actually a lot of places in Habari's theming system that could use some work.

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