Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.

Andrew ,'Damage'


Buffistas Building a Better Board  

Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.

To-do list


amych - Jan 29, 2003 4:14:33 pm PST #2936 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Huh. Oops. My bad.


Karl - Jan 29, 2003 5:24:54 pm PST #2937 of 10000
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

We had a power blink here this morning; my home network was offline. Anyone trying to reach the CVS box, I apologise. Things should be back to normal now. If not, please e-mail me at the profile address.

ita, I am out of con shadow but working hard. I'll send you mail when I come up for air.


Rebecca Lizard - Jan 30, 2003 5:27:57 pm PST #2938 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

1) The board is being really, really slow, while other internet things don't seem to me. This could be just me, of course, but:

2) I tried going straight to read_new.php when I got here, but I got the

January 30, 2003, 7:25 pm : ERROR [2] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) line 72 of file /home/buffist/public_html/classes/giles.php

January 30, 2003, 7:25 pm : ERROR [2] MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) line 72 of file /home/buffist/public_html/classes/giles.php

kill-the-developers error message.


Hil R. - Jan 30, 2003 5:30:07 pm PST #2939 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I've been getting a bunch of "page not found" messages.


jengod - Jan 30, 2003 5:46:04 pm PST #2940 of 10000

I just wanna say I've never gotten even a whiff of an error message. I think buffistas.org is perfect like an ita thing.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 31, 2003 1:42:23 am PST #2941 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

I've put jengod's suggestion from Bureaucracy (a page for the geographic mailing lists) onto the feature requests list, and I'm quoting what she said here because I think it's a BaBB matter- hope you don't mind, jengod.

organize the lists and give them their own page. New istas of various geographic persuasions don't know they exist. Maybe something like a list of the lists, with radio buttons next to 'em, and a subscribe/unsubscribe button at the bottom.


msbelle - Jan 31, 2003 8:36:29 am PST #2942 of 10000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

AM - what is next on the list in order of importance?


Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 31, 2003 8:59:28 am PST #2943 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

The top of the list, in order, until someone tells me otherwise:

  • CVS repository
  • Move search out of beta
  • Rearchitect code to use XML/XSLT
  • Shorten long URLs
  • Tag closer
  • Ability to label bookmarks
  • ENUF filter


Karl - Jan 31, 2003 9:50:42 am PST #2944 of 10000
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

* CVS repository

ita and Jon B. have access to the CVS repository; I'll be adding access for other developers just as soon as work stops being insane.


§ ita § - Jan 31, 2003 9:53:42 am PST #2945 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay -- CVS repository is Karl's to do, and he's got that one in process. You have the list of dev people, Karl?

Search out of beta is me -- this weekend looks tight, but next weekend looks good.

XML/XSLT has been volunteered for (at least phase I, before the PHP needs writing) by Michele and Plei.

Shorten long URLs -- prelim code already written, must be integrated. By me.

Same with tag closer.

The other two are undibbsed.