Life, the past few days...
Jun. 1st, 2006 11:16 amLet's see. My last significant post was May 24th, more or less... So starting from the most recent events
So I have my LiveJournal mentor now:
whitaker. I should probably friend him here, although chances are, most of our communication will be done over e-mail. I'm still trying to decide if I want to branch off a new journal for the project.
Copying and pasting from the LiveJournal Summer of Code project idea page:
Which, by the way, if you design layouts (
xella and
selphish, you two come to mind), what would you like to see supported? It's still in the design stages right now - I'm still looking at various styles/themes/layouts and trying to figure out what we'll need to support.
I was originally just thinking it'd only be template files, but my mentor tells me that images may be included... possibly... and hosted "somewhere in lj-land".
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( More recent stuff, along with plans for the next few days.... )
So I have my LiveJournal mentor now:
Copying and pasting from the LiveJournal Summer of Code project idea page:
LiveJournal Style Upload
Create a system to upload a style/theme as a zip file of template files/CSS/images/etc, and then convert/compile that into S2. Support MT/Blogger/Wordpress/Smarty templates? Something that's easy for users to open up (the zip), edit, and re-upload. Involves defining archive format, and implementing server-side code to parse and recompile to native formats.
Which, by the way, if you design layouts (
I was originally just thinking it'd only be template files, but my mentor tells me that images may be included... possibly... and hosted "somewhere in lj-land".
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( More recent stuff, along with plans for the next few days.... )