Stable or trunk

[Pepijn De Vos]

Hi,

I'm setting up a simple blog/website for someone but wordpress is
giving al sorts of strange errors.

Is habari ready for public usage?
And would it be better to use the stable version or the trunk?

Is there some kind of theme website like wordpress has?
Because I don't want to build a custom theme for it.

Bye,
Pepijn

[Chris J. Davis]

For the most part, Trunk is stable. I, along with a goodly number of
people, run our public sites out of trunk.

Habari is definitely ready for use, with some caveats:

We don't yet have a fully implemented ACL system, so if this will be a
multi-user blog, Habari might not be the best bet.

We don't have the wealth of themes and plugins available yet that you
would find for WP, but we do have a good beginning. You can find them
in our -extras repo:

http://svn.habariproject.org/habari-extras/plugins/

http://svn.habariproject.org/habari-extras/themes/

Let us know if you have any questions or need any help along the way.

Chris

[Andy C]

See also

http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Available_Themes

for additional user contributed themes.

[pepijn]

thanks, i installed the trunk version, but here are a few suggestions
and questions:

first of all, can i set a static page as home page?

on the site it says to get the latest svn use something like svn co
<url> <path>
this is okay for developers and people who want to update their local
copy, but you should mention the svn export function, i don't
want .svn folders al over the place!

the docs say that to install you need to get your database info and
chmod the habari directory.
the first point is not true for sqlite, habari can create a database
for you...
and the second can be a problem if you install habari in the webroot,
when i changed the chmod of mij /www/ directory the webserver choked
and refused to serve anything except 403 errors.

to all the devs and people who helped to make this possible: keep up
the good work!
i'm stil using wordpress for now, but in the future i might hop over
to habari, or to a completely different scripting language(not sure if
i like php/mysql that much, i'm glad there is sqlite in habari!), but
i yet have to decide on the best road to take.

bye,
pepijn

[Andy C]

There is a plugin for a static front page although I have no personal
experience of using it.

http://trac.habariproject.org/habari-extras/browser/plugins/staticfront

HTH

Andy

[Michael Harris]

2009/1/8 pepijn <pepij...@gmail.com>:

>>
> on the site it says to get the latest svn use something like svn co
> <url> <path>
> this is okay for developers and people who want to update their local
> copy, but you should mention the svn export function, i don't
> want .svn folders al over the place!

I'd recommend against exporting trunk, in general. While it is
relatively stable, features are often only partly implemented, bugs
may have been introduced etc, so you'll want to be able to upgrade
easily. If you're using a tag, export might be appropriate.

--
Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University
http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog
IRC: michaeltwofish #habari

[Andy C]

I speak an a user not a developer as I can't even spell PHP. Curiously
enough, I have a draft post about this very subject with a working
title of 'To SVN or not to SVN - that is the question'.

When I first migrated to Habari, there was a distinct feeling on being
in on something was was being actively developed, rapidly moving,
exciting and excuse the tired old cliche, bleeding edge.

As formal releases of Habari are less frequent and exciting than a
daily 'svn update' that could potentially break your blog, I simply
couldn't resist the temptation for very long.

So, I built a subversion client on Bluehost and tracked SVN head on a
daily basis. From last February until now. Obviously I track the
changes in trac so have an idea of what's in the pipeline. Often it is
new functionality or fixes, I have been waiting for and only too eager
to try out.

Initially, I was afraid, desperately afraid - mainly of schema
changes that would be released overnight break my blog and force me
back to the dark side (textpattern, anyone ?)

However, I soon realised that SVN HEAD was probably the safest place
to be - most of the Habari developers are running it and if something
goes pear shaped, it gets noticed pretty damned quickly (expletives in
IRC) and guess what ? - those very same people are the very ones best
placed to fix it. Well, it's only fair as one of them probably broke
it in the first place :-)

Seriously though, I can count the glitches in the fingers of one thumb
where my blog has been inaccessible as a consequence of unning SVN
HEAD.

And the big plus is that you get to see (err, debug) that latest
features as they roll off the conveyor belt.

You are also free to test themes and plugins that (typically) are
written for the latest version.

HTH
--
Andy

On Jan 7, 10:39 pm, "Michael Harris" <michael.twof...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2009/1/8 pepijn <pepijnde...@gmail.com>: