On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 03:05, Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@...> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Most of you are probably about to discover that our Etherpad instance >>> has changed. >>> (To top that off, linking like this [[2]] no longer works and the tags >>> view still does not). >>> >>> There are currently two pads on there (as the rest were dumped): the >>> Rules and README (shamelessly copied from etherpad.trinitydesktop.org) >>> and July Meeting Topics. >>> Please do not create any more pads right now until linking works >>> again, otherwise there will be too many duplicates. >>> >> >> Just for information, the destruction of the existing pads was an >> unintended consequence of an attempt to upgrade, as the original Etherpad >> installation was compiled from an older source tarball and had some nasty >> problems. This new instance is built from the latest sources into a >> package and then installed on the production server, so the other problems >> people had been noticing with the original installation should now be >> fixed. Additionally, scheduled backups will commence of the Trinity >> Etherpad/source control server, so that this resource continues to be >> available even if buggy software destroys the data on the production >> machine. :D > > Linking is enabled again. Please let me know if you run into any other > missing features that were originally present on the old Etherpad > installation. Works. We should start recreating any other Etherpads that are deemed necessary right now. > > This new installation has repaired inline file attachments, so please feel > free to upload sample artwork, sketches, diagrams, patches, or anything > else you feel is related to the pad topic and useful within the narrative. :D > > Also, I have been informed that the twitter style tag search function (the > "tags view" mentioned earlier) will probably never work on the > open-sourced Etherpad versions, so linking is your best bet for > organization. That being said, please feel free to use the twitter style > hash tags in case I feel inclined to repair the search plugin myself. ;) I see. In that case, we better have some master "Category" pads with links. Otherwise I can see a bit of a mess coming our way. -- later, Robert Xu + rxu AT lincomlinux DOT org