blogofile blog template refactorings - would this kind of change welcome? (comments example)

[Péter Zsoldos]

Hi,

certain features are spread all over the sample blog templates and are hard to replace/configure. I've extracted the comments and made disqus replaceable (provided only the drop-me-an-email barbones version as an alternative) in a sample blog - just clone https://github.com/zsoldosp/blogofile-proof-of-concepts and run blogofile build && blogofile serve with the various config files (see needed values in https://github.com/zsoldosp/blogofile-proof-of-concepts/commit/e247e393e2c761809b22c3ffa71661fde73baed7#_config.py)

Is this something that would be welcome in the core? If so, I'll need to figure out how to test it and then create a pull requests in blogofile_blog itself

Peter

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[Doug Latornell]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Péter Zsoldos <peter....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

certain features are spread all over the sample blog templates and are hard to replace/configure. I've extracted the comments and made disqus replaceable (provided only the drop-me-an-email barbones version as an alternative) in a sample blog - just clone https://github.com/zsoldosp/blogofile-proof-of-concepts and run blogofile build && blogofile serve with the various config files (see needed values in https://github.com/zsoldosp/blogofile-proof-of-concepts/commit/e247e393e2c761809b22c3ffa71661fde73baed7#_config.py)

I just had a quick look, and I think you are doing a good thing! The sample templates haven't gotten much love since I extracted them from the old blogofile/site_src/ directory.

Is this something that would be welcome in the core? If so, I'll need to figure out how to test it and then create a pull requests in blogofile_blog itself

I probably won't have time to take a deeper look until the weekend, but provisionally, yes, this is welcome.

Writing tests in blogofile_blog can be pretty hard because of the way it imports things. For rendered pages I usually just settle for proving to myself that it works in a local test site (build/serve/check in browser). Crude and heretical, I know :(

Peter

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[Mike Pirnat]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Doug Latornell <d...@douglatornell.ca> wrote:
> Writing tests in blogofile_blog can be pretty hard because of the way it
> imports things.

This is the one thing that's always bugged me about Blogofile. I'd
love to take a crack at a remedy, but I've already got a too-high
stack of more urgent things to do. :-(

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[Doug Latornell]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Mike Pirnat <mpi...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Doug Latornell <d...@douglatornell.ca> wrote:
> Writing tests in blogofile_blog can be pretty hard because of the way it
> imports things.

This is the one thing that's always bugged me about Blogofile. I'd
love to take a crack at a remedy, but I've already got a too-high
stack of more urgent things to do. :-(

I've been looking at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stevedore and wondering if that would help clean up the plugin interface.

Some of the other import funkiness I think just needs some thoughtful refactoring. I've been holding off on that in favour of squashing bugs in the beta so that there can be a 0.8 final release.

[Péter Zsoldos]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Mike Pirnat <mpi...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Doug Latornell <d...@douglatornell.ca> wrote:
> Writing tests in blogofile_blog can be pretty hard because of the way it
> imports things.

This is the one thing that's always bugged me about Blogofile. I'd
love to take a crack at a remedy, but I've already got a too-high
stack of more urgent things to do. :-(

Once http://globalday.coderetreat.org/ is over I might have some time to take a look at it. Any pointers to get started are welcome - I'm pretty experienced with testing, but I've only been looking at the blogofile code on a it-doesnt-do-what-i-need-so-lets-find-the-root-cause basis

Peter