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Alaa's picture

keeping track of what I done already in drupal, otherwise we'll get lost and have a horible time upgrading.

hmm this is getting to be very long maybe I should split it wala do it real blog style and report each day on its own post.

patches:

  1. made TitleModule use double square brackets for title link for compatibility with WikiModule
  2. disabled turning white spaces leaded paragraphs into pre tagged paragraphs in WikiModule
  3. changed hardcoded width="100%" in tables used in image module for compatibility with our current CSS layout.
  4. patched new php template default theme main.tpl
  5. patched glossary module to disable converting glossary terms to links.

  1. made tables use maximum size of 95% to avoid unessecary scroll bars in mozilla

hacks and configs todo

tab3an when I say implement this includes bug the guys at #drupal till they implement it.

  1. reimplement bidi hack in theme for titles only

  1. fix inline images and image links in WikiModule
  2. fix footnotes in WikiModule
  3. implement some of the missing Wiki features
    • CamlCase
    • backlinks
    • easy categories
    • colored diffs
    • what else?
  4. document all changes to synatx in the help strings
  5. remove incorrect information from WikiModule help strings
  6. implement navigation without side bars concept in theme
  7. implement ability to move comments
  8. implement ability to control promote permission on user role
  9. figure out a procedure for controlled rss blocks
  10. implement custom themes for blogs
  11. implement blog self moderation
  12. finish arabization of core drupal
  13. extract po files from contrib modules and arabize them
  14. implement single sidebar default theme
  15. figure out which blocks to enable by default

  1. style linux counter block to look good
  2. make all modules produce valid html code

contrib modules installed

  1. ImageModule
  2. FlexiNodeModule
  3. WikiModule
  4. EventModule
  5. FileStore
  6. GlossaryModule
  7. LocaleModule

configuration

must document how I configured all details

candidate contrib modules

  1. MailhandlerModule

  1. ListHandlerModule

  1. WebLinksModule

  1. TaxonomyContextModule
  2. SummaryModule
  3. TaxonomyImageModule
  4. TaxonomyMenuModule

  1. NiceLinksModule
  2. SyndicationModule

  1. TaxonomyBrowserModule
  2. ProfileNodeModule
  3. MailAliasModule

taxonomies

must document bloody taxonomies and plan ahead for them

Comments

ramez.hanna's picture

great work

hey alaa it seems to me that you are doing all the work by your self take it easy man i can help with - implement navigation without side bars concept in theme - implement ability to move comments so can if you want me to help just specify the task and if you have any specs/comments just point them out

great work


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Alaa's picture

thanks alot

well you see my todo, nothing says I have to do it myself, in fact I intend to work hard on making someone else do it.

so start hacking at whatever you want.

navigation without sidebar is better left to me since I'll work closely with out resident html/css coder (too closely) but you can help out if you hang around IRC and join me while I work.

so why don't you try your hands at move comments?

moving a single comment is trivial, all you need is to change the node id (NID) in the comments table.

moving a comments thread will be a bit harder since you'll have to recirsivle select comments according to the parent id (PID).

the real difficult part would be if one wanted to promote a comment into a node (ya3ni split a single forum discussion into two discussions) although there are benefits to forcing the mod to manualy create a new node and move the comments there (this way the who discussion can be clarified in the node and doesn't feel like a chopped up thing).

start working and keep me updated.

cheers, Alaa


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