Sat Aug 02 21:54:00 UTC 2008
Introducing Summer Reboot - Radiant Documentation
According to their website, Radiant CMS is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams. In my opinion, it is quite cool and offers a clean codebase, a fantastic extensions system and has a very good community.
The Radiant community has just embarked on a joint project to create a set of documents for Radiant. The project started near the end of June, based on a rough table of contents that would read like a book. It’s hosted off the wiki for the time being. Now, it’s the start of August, so I had sent out a brief update and request to people. This is the update.
[1] As you (may) know, Summer Reboot is targeted as being the starting point documentation for Radiant in the future and so far, we’ve come up with a list of documents that we’d like to create and some authors have claimed some of the articles as things that they would like to write. A few articles are already up!
If you feel there should be more topics, please edit the home page of the documentation to add it in
If you feel you can write some of it, please claim, write and upload
Current authors/ claimants: THANKS for your support.
[2] I understand that some (many? most?) of us are busy and are doing this as a side-project/ free time effort, so I’m thankful to all of you for that. That said, if you think you have some scribbled notes electronically but don’t have the time to upload it, I’m willing to try to do that. I don’t mind spending some time to push out more things. I’ll rewrite what I get, try to replicate it on my side, capture some screenshots and push it out as and when I have the time.
Contact me: tech {at} onghu.com or mohits {at} onghu.com with what you have/ email. If you can do this TODAY (i.e. Friday), I shall try my best to push out what you pass me during the weekend. Once the work week starts again, it gets difficult :(
[3] Everyone reads :) Help us edit the wiki. Go to the site and see the articles that are there. Take a read.
If there are grammatical errors/ missing words, please FIX it
If the explanation is not clear and you can rewrite a part of it, please FIX it
If more information is needed and you can write it, please FIX it
If more information is needed and you can’t write it, please ADD comments into the article, preferably in a color like orange to distinguish it from the main text. Hopefully, someone can address it later.
[4] Ideas from the List: This list has some good ideas and bug fixes or workarounds. If you have the time and spot something that really helps you, go to the wiki and add in at least a small note to the related article. For example, the article on Copy_Move at http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Copy_and_Move has this line at the bottom:
> Known Problems
> There seems to be a problem with using CopyMove with Radiant 0.6.7 in the Development mode.
> This problem does not occur when in Production mode.
> A sample screenshot of the problem is at: http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/2380/Picture_2.jpg
If you can, please add such stuff so that people know where to look and when not to panic on ‘known problems’
We’re targeting 31st Aug as the date of launch!!
The Summer Reboot site is at: http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Summer_Reboot
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