Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

News posted by nielx on Wed, 2009-02-25 19:49
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This Saturday, the 28th of February, the software that powers the website, Drupal and 47 (!) modules, have been upgraded to the Drupal 5 platform. This upgrade creates the foundation to continue to improve the functionality and information on our website, as the demands change, also in the face of the upcoming Alpha 1 release.

While the upgrade team has concluded that most of the data migrated smoothly, there are some rough edges. Most notably, the data of the conferences did not migrate properly, and as such, we are now in the process of reconstructing the conference module. Please read on for a more detailed list of issues. Naturally we expect some more minor issues popping up. If you find any one of them, please check out the list below, and if the issue is not there, drop a comment!

The known issues are the following:

  • The conference functionality has disappeared.
  • Pages like the about page show authoring information, while it did not used to.
  • The OSNews and Slashdot icons are missing from the teasers
  • The Read more link needs some styling.
  • The image system needs an overhaul.
  • The legacy docs need to be restored. Reported by adek336
  • The lay-out underperforms on wide screens. Reported by kallisti5.
  • The new image gallery (thanks Remi!) has a wrong reference to certain paths
  • Updated copyright notices (meta tags and footer)
  • Changed "Haiku Screenshot Tour" under the "Learn More" block in the About page to point to the new gallery.

Drop a comment if there is more. We did not thoroughly test the functionality with the different permission groups. Is anything not working, while it used to work? Drop a line!

Comments

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by kallisti5 - 2009-03-01 18:56

The website looks broken on any screen bigger then 1500 px wide. Lots of wide screens out there today.

was:
http://unixzen.com/haikusite.png

Solution:

layout.css:
#wrapper1, #wrapper2
add
display: inline;

make images/bg_header_bottom_right.png much wider to the left.

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by Sikosis - 2009-03-02 01:08

+ The conference functionality has disappeared.

Ah ... that explains what happened to the RSS feed for the conferences. Bugger.

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by Adek336 - 2009-03-02 01:47

Can't access Be Book http://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by koki - 2009-03-02 01:57
Adek336 wrote:

Can't access Be Book http://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/

In fact, all links pointing to files/pages under the...

http://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/

...path are broken.

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by remi_grumeau - 2009-03-02 08:22

First, congratulations you all for this migration !
I've seen a small bug on the gallery part: the prev/next buttons do not show well. They are linked to /picasa/right_normal.gif, where they should be linked to /themes/shijin/images/picasa/right_normal.gif

that's all i have seen...

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by nielx - 2009-03-02 10:46

Thank you for the new image gallery. I've fixed the image links now.

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by nielx - 2009-03-02 18:23

The legacy docs can now be accessed again. Thanks for the report.

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by koki - 2009-03-02 20:55

> Pages like the about page show authoring information, while it did not used to.

Fixed.

(Edit: authoring info can be enabled/disabled for each different content type under "Display post information on" in the theme settings page @ admin/themes/settings.) In this specific case, I disabled it for Containers. BTW, the format of the themes settings page is screwed up, so it may be hard to see (as different parts of the page are overlapping); you might as well use a different theme for the admin area, specifically here: /admin/settings/admin).

I've lost my Mojo!

by mmu_man - 2009-03-02 23:01

Actually I seem to have lost my underscore.
I used to have blog entries available at
http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mmu_man
cf.
here.
Though it seems not to break links to specific entries at least.

If I try http://www.haiku-os.org/user/mmu_man I get access denied.
http://www.haiku-os.org/user/mmuman seems to work though...
But my login does include the underscore... weirdo.

Re: I've lost my Mojo!

by koki - 2009-03-03 00:00
mmu_man wrote:

Actually I seem to have lost my underscore.

Sounds like the configuration of the PathAuto module may have changed with the upgrade.

Copyright notices

by koki - 2009-03-03 02:40

Updated copyright notices in the footer and meta tags.

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by Adek336 - 2009-03-03 05:22

Congratulations with the ugprade !

I remember getting email notifications everytime a new comment got posted to an article I commented on. Doesn't seem to work now, though. Probably the forum doesn't send notifications either.

Re: I've lost my Mojo!

by nielx - 2009-03-03 09:33

The underscore is back!

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by kallisti5 - 2009-03-03 13:51
kallisti5 wrote:

The website looks broken on any screen bigger then 1500 px wide. Lots of wide screens out there today.

was:
http://unixzen.com/haikusite.png

Solution:

layout.css:
#wrapper1, #wrapper2
add
display: inline;

make images/bg_header_bottom_right.png much wider to the left.

You can test this in firefox by holding ctrl and scrolling out.. if the page moves away from the left it's broke at that size! :)

Re: I've lost my Mojo!

by koki - 2009-03-03 15:25
nielx wrote:

The underscore is back!

For the sake of documenting what caused this problem, would you share with the rest of us how you fixed this? Was it related to the configuration of the PathAuto module?

Thanks!

(PS: I was also wondering: did you receive my version of the D5 Shijin theme that I emailed you a couple of days ago, where the header search box works?)

Re: I've lost my Mojo!

by mmu_man - 2009-03-03 21:00
nielx wrote:

The underscore is back!

Actually it doesn't look like it. :-(

Haiku Screenshot Tour link

by koki - 2009-03-04 00:39

The "Haiku Screenshot Tour" under the "Learn More" block in the About page was still pointing to the old screenshot gallery. It is fixed now.

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by Diver - 2009-03-04 11:25

http://www.haiku-os.org/about/teams/admin
Under "Current Activities" there is a broken link "tasks list"

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by Monni - 2009-03-05 19:15

user warning: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '|7200), '%Y%m') AS name, count(node.nid) AS num_nodes, node.created AS node_crea' at line 1 query: SELECT node.created, DATE_FORMAT(FROM_UNIXTIME(node.created+|7200), '%Y%m') AS name, count(node.nid) AS num_nodes, node.created AS node_created_created, node.title AS node_title, node.changed AS node_changed FROM node node WHERE (node.promote = '1') AND ((node.type NOT IN ('blog') OR node.type IS NULL)) AND (node.status = '1') GROUP BY DATE_FORMAT(FROM_UNIXTIME(node.created+|7200), '%Y%m'), node_created_created ORDER BY node_created_created DESC LIMIT 0, 5 in /home2/haiku2/webapps/website_production/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 174.

Also seems parsing ul tag inside ol+li doesn't work.

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by nielx - 2009-03-09 10:45
Diver wrote:

http://www.haiku-os.org/about/teams/admin
Under "Current Activities" there is a broken link "tasks list"

Fixed!

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by Diver - 2009-03-09 22:15

This page is still showing authoring information, is it intended?

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by koki - 2009-03-10 03:01
Diver wrote:

This page is still showing authoring information, is it intended?

Yes, it is intended. News (which this is one), blog and forum posts all show authoring info. Generic pages (such as those under the About and Community sections of the website) should not. At least, that's how it was originally designed.

Readmore link & image system overhaul

by koki - 2009-03-10 14:54
Quote:

The Read more link needs some styling.
The image system needs an overhaul.

The two above issues have been crossed out from the list of known issues.

Can anyone explain the specifics of how they were dealt with?

Re: Readmore link & image system overhaul

by nielx - 2009-03-10 15:50

Gladly.

The 'Read More' link received a CSS tweak (basically altering the font size).

The image system was not actually overhauled, but the existing system was tweaked. I think it currently work as expected.

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by Adek336 - 2009-03-18 20:35

http://www.haiku-os.org/news/2009-03-18/haiku_makes_it_google_summer_cod... Notice that there are two entries for "March, 2009" in the "News Archive" box.

Re: Website Upgraded to Drupal 5

by nielx - 2009-03-19 09:17

Fixed! Thanks for the report.