Basically I'd need a standalone dev version of the monastery for testing.
In fact. This is probably the biggest hurdle for me. I like the freedom to be stupid when I’m developing and that’s impossible working on (semi-) live code.
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why can't you have one? Also I thought PM was on multiple servers so can you not break one and then the others will still work?
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I just don’t think there are any deployment processes. I could probably put one together but it would take a lot of work, it might be tricky given my dev.darwin v production.xyz, and it would be empty without permission to copy over the whole DB (semi-effectively promoting me to Godhood since I could see all data).
Update: also, from my perspective… the site code should be nuked from orbit. I don’t see anything here that I don’t feel would be better and easier (to write, to test, to maintain, to rope in help) on any modern framework. I got a commit bit to try to encourage myself to try to work with what’s here but like a New Year’s Resolution gym membership… I have nothing but appreciation and admiration for the active devs keeping the site going and nudging it toward new features.
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Yep, but to avoid misunderstandings:
I didn't want to criticize the infrastructure or formulate feature requests.
The thread is RFC and I honestly think that automatic categories are easier than manual tagging and the involved coordination and discussion.
IOW was meant as a helpful suggestion nothing else.
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And my first project if I found the time would be to open the code for pluggable frontends, such that others could easily provide different addons to change the look and feel. (Themes++)
Like that bootstrap design from Tobyink.
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