Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Dealing with CFP / Conference dates

On 1 March 2015 at 20:45, Paul Dragoonis <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Peter Cowburn <[email protected]>
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>> On 26 February 2015 at 15:40, Paul Dragoonis <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have been out of the country on business and my php.net environment
>>> setup
>>> is back home on my laptop. I'm wishing there was an easy way to set up a
>>> VM
>>> + php.net mirror setup on a box so I could have done it on my client's
>>> machine, but that's a different conversation altogether.
>>>
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>> Setting up a php.net website mirror, for development, these days is as
>> simple as git clone and using the built-in web server.  Playing around with
>> the various generated files (e.g. those on master, that get rsync'd to
>> mirrors) is a little more fuss, but not much more than cloning master,
>> running the scripts and cp-ing to your web clone.
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> Can you elaborate on this? There needs to be a .php script on master,
> which creates a .json file which is rsynced to mirrors. I need to get this
> .php script in the repo somehow.
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>> That said, it would be nice to have a VM or something (I've been thinking
>> about this for the docs) to download and magically have a development env
>> all set up.
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> It would be worth while investment of our (the web team's time) i'm sure!
> It would make the contribution barrier lower.
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>>> The code was already submitted a while back for this, but there's still a
>>> few blockers for me.
>>> 1) I can commit into the website repo, but I can't commit into the '
>>> master.php.net' repo.
>>> 2) If I'm not granted commit access to master.php.net, then I need to be
>>> able to make a Pull Request to it. The problem here is we don't have the
>>> ''
>>> master.php.net' repository on github so I can't PR against it.
>>>
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>> Not being able to submit a pull request isn't much of a blocker. We
>> worked for years with patches attached to emails.  (This sounds far more
>> blunt, as I'm reading this back, than I intended!)
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>> Apologies if I simply missed it, do you have an up-to-date patch for the
>> different git repos that we can look over? If it's only on your laptop back
>> at home, we can wait.
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> I have the patch, it was submitted months ago via email and nobody
> committed it for me :-). I'm happy to rebase on top of the latest repo
> HEADs since it's been a while of course.
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>>> Can someone sort this out either my commit karma, or github repos so I
>>> can
>>> progress?
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>> I'm sure it's not a problem to grant you karma, but even if it was there
>> are still plenty of people who do have karma and can commit patches.
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> Karma or PR (for master repo) - let me know what you wanna do, as long as
> it's my name on the commit then it doesn't matter to me how it got there.
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I can't grant you commit karma (would if I could!), but I can merge an
updated patch.


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>>> Many thanks,
>>> Paul
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>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Eli <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> > I'd like to make the point, once again, that we are supposed to be
>>> > moving away from this system altogether :)
>>> >
>>> > For months now we've been waiting for the 'new system' that completely
>>> > removes this task from us.  (In fact I've been waiting to submit my own
>>> > conference while 6-7 have come through), just because I didn't want to
>>> > add to a system that was on the verge of being removed.
>>> >
>>> > So I'll ask again.   Can we get the new code pushed live that
>>> > automatically does the conferences by Joind.in?   As it's the 'end
>>> goal'
>>> > anyway, it solves this issues mentioned here, and ... everyone has
>>> > already said yes.
>>> >
>>> > Eli
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 2/26/15 3:49 AM, Peter Cowburn wrote:
>>> > > On 26 February 2015 at 08:29, Stelian Mocanita <
>>> > [email protected]>
>>> > > wrote:
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>>> > >> Would it make sense to extend the tool so when you select CFP and
>>> > >> Conference as categories to ask for both dates and content? Right
>>> now
>>> > the
>>> > >> organisers have to return after end of CFP and provide new content
>>> and
>>> > we
>>> > >> have to update it. I do not necessarily have an issue with updating
>>> the
>>> > >> entries, but I would so love to automate this and do it once and
>>> once
>>> > only.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Thoughts?
>>> > >>
>>> > > I think we should be having entirely separate entries for a CFP
>>> versus a
>>> > > conference announcement, rather than going back and editing a CFP
>>> entry
>>> > > once it is closed (and we've been given updated text).  Conflating
>>> the
>>> > two
>>> > > types of entries doesn't make much sense, to me.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >> Stelian
>>> > >>
>>> > >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Hannes Magnusson <
>>> > >> [email protected]> wrote:
>>> > >>
>>> > >>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Stelian Mocanita
>>> > >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > >>>> Hello everyone,
>>> > >>>>
>>> > >>>> What would be a good way to deal with the CFP / Conference date?
>>> Most
>>> > >> if
>>> > >>>> not all of the conferences have different dates, and organisers
>>> submit
>>> > >> it
>>> > >>>> all at once.
>>> > >>>>
>>> > >>>> Is there any decent way we can work around this? Maybe add a CFP
>>> date
>>> > >>> and a
>>> > >>>> conference date to the news item?
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> The dates definitely should be in the news entry itself - otherwise
>>> > >>> the organizers are simply being mean to the people reading the
>>> entry
>>> > >>> :/
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> Originally when I cared for markup it was all semantically tagged
>>> and
>>> > >>> pretty using microformats and eRDF, which exposed hCalendar entries
>>> > >>> which could be easily imported as they contained location and dates
>>> > >>> and descriptions and what not. Shame that became uncool.
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> -Hannes
>>> > >>>
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > |   Eli White   |   http://eliw.com/   |   Twitter: EliW   |
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