On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Daniel Nauschuetz <nauschu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Outstanding work to everybody involved in the upgrade!  Thank you, thank
> you, thank you.

> Daniel

> From: Henry Andrews <h...@cornell.edu>
> To: GCD Tech <gcd-tech@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 5:17 PM
> Subject: [gcd-tech] Next steps, and congratulations!

> Hi folks,
>   Congratulations to Jochen and everyone else involved on the new version of
> the site!  The reprint links are fantastic and it's great to see a specific
> feature so long-anticipated become a reality.

>   Jochen, do you have any particular plans for tech work right now?  I don't
> know exactly when or how steadily I'll be able to work on it, but I would
> like to start working on search.  I also think that my original design for
> the OI is starting to show its limitations and I kind of want to poke around
> with some ideas that might make features like reprint linking (and similar
> stuff that we'll want to do for other features) easier to present.  I think
> what you have is as good as it's going to get in the current design, but
> I've picked up some jQuery UI skills in the last year that might open up
> some more options.  AJAX can be overused, but I think in the case of the
> reprints work it could really help a lot with only a bit of effort (now that
> I know jQuery reasonably well).

>   But if you're still planning on doing a lot of active tinkering with the
> reprint UI, or have other major plans, I don't want to step on that.

>   On a technical level, I know you use git for a local repository.  I would
> really not object to switching things over to git entirely.  I chose
> Subversion because it was what I was using at work at the time, but at this
> point it's pretty clear that git is technically superior for our usage.  No
> urgency at all there, but I hear it's not that hard to migrate SVN to git
> with history preserved.

>   Finally, what version of Django are we on now?  1.4 is out, although for
> search I need to make certain that Haystack 2.0.0 beta is compatible with
> it.  Haystack 1.x and 2.0 are different enough, and the development is
> active enough, that we should probably work with 2.0.0-beta unless we
> encounter problems.

> thanks,
> -henry

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