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Wagn 0.13+Blurb
Wagn 0.13, our last release before 1.0, cuts out a lot of wasted effort for both you and your server. While the codebase shrank, we sped up setups, added support for hosting multiple wagns, and improved a lot of core features, including image and file handling, WQL (our query language), and a now-customizable "Related" tab.
Wagn 0.13+Blog
0.13 is here. 1.0 is next.
After three years of exploration, innovation, and refinement, Wagn 1.0 is now less than a month away. Our basic toolkit for our "Wiki on Wheels" is ready to roll. All that's left for 1.0 is a little time to breathe in, sweep out corners, squash a bug or two, and then throw open our doors.
Starter Kit
With our 0.13 release, getting going with a new Wagn is faster and friendlier than ever. New wagns come with configuration cards, simpler initial account setup, and a lot more cues to help ease your way in.
Improving our Images
For our existing users, new image and file handling is the most significant interface change. No more crazy giants. Images are now automatically resized into four sizes for use in different contexts: icon, small, medium, and large. We now also retain old versions of images and files.
One Sleek Wiki
Wagn's getting slimmer. We streamlined an already svelte application quite a bit, from around 15,000 lines of original ruby code (excludes plugins and migrations) to about 14,000. Some of that came from spring cleaning, some from refactoring (like WQL, our query language, which lost weight and built muscle), and some from moving old code into new cards, which gives Wagneers powers once restricted to coders. Non-coders can configure their own Wagns, collaborate on default content for new Wagns, and help us internationalize our software.
On a Related Note
Our new Related tab, once a scary sight to newbies, is now like a mountain lake: clear (lots of inline cues), deep (subtabs), and broad (includes discussions and tagging). And you can even customize your own subtabs. In the typically Wagny way, the subtabs themselves are arranged and formatted by cards that you can edit.
The Tightmost Sitehost
A little more arcane but at least as important is our new support for hosting multiple wagns in a single Postgres database. This is already making our hosted Wagns snappier and our administrators happier.
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Rename "alpha" to "name". Also allow sorting by "contents", which would sort alphabetically for text cards, numerically for number and currency, and in time order for ... add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, low, +points , +assigned toIssue
+issue as per: from initial design: +braindump, +questionsDesign for multiple values
Short property syntax
The translation from single to multiple of ... add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, high, +points , +assigned toIssue
on 0.13 Wagns, getting signed out for no apparent reason +solution +todos add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, medium, +points , +assigned toIssue
problem was actually coming from Universal Edit Button (!), but it unearthed the problem that '*rform'.template? returned true. add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, high, +points ,Issue
add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, medium, +points , +assigned toIssue
+issue Prepend a slash to tell Wagn to not interpret markup, e.g.: \{{inclusion}} \[[foo]] (right now we use span and /span, an ugly kluge) ... add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, low, +points , +assigned toIssue
+issue +solution +todos add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, high, +points , +assigned toIssue
+issue
Code
- Remove Setting code
- Remove Admin links from code (now done in http://en.indecks.net/wagn/Administrator_links )
Content
... add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, medium, +points , +assigned toIssue
PlainText cards don't interpret links render content (in content_view partial) +todos add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, medium, +points , +assigned toIssue
+issueWe want to improve /admin/setup and related. How? In email, Ethan proposed: nix the admin account, have new users create their own personal accounts ... add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...
closed, low, +points , +assigned toIssue
If you upload an image and the name field is blank, it gets autofilled from the file name. Spaces should stay spaces, not become underscores. ... add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, low, +points , +assigned toIssue
Right now if you include a Search with item:name, then in line view they show as links. Showing as names makes more sense. add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, medium, +points ,Issue
add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, low, +points , +assigned toIssue
+issue +solution +todos add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, medium, +points , +assigned toIssue
+issue New syntax/capability for WQL: {"prepend": "foo", "type": "Place"} returns all Place cards plussed to foo, e.g.: foo+Eugene foo+Chicago fpp+Fort Collins etc. {"append": "my ... add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, medium, +points , +assigned toIssue
+issue any cards that contain _self, _whole, _left, _right, or _user show fullname in links and inclusions. add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, medium, +points ,Issue
add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...closed, medium, +points , +assigned toIssue
Wagn currently raises an error if you have an invalid card view on an inclusion. Should just ignore invalid views, and use the default - ... add a documentation ticket Tags: User stories ...
wondering if with each release we should break changes into our 4 main user groups: readers, editors, wagneers, and developers...
remaining todos for 0.13
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- double check deploy of new wagn outside cluster (create/purge)
- redirection issue ( random wagn on bogus subdomain )
--Ethan McCutchen.....Mon Apr 20 09:56:05 -0700 2009
