Migrating old projects to new release/Where would you like user tweaks/feedback?

[Chris Keller]

Morning... 

So just got the new version up and running and I'm bound to have some questions as this version is much more powerful. Any suggestions on considerations to take when moving older projects over to the new version?

Also, what would you like the Google Group used for as opposed to GitHub issues?

So far so great. Nice work all.

Chris K 

[David Eads]

I'll be writing a guide for moving projects to Tarbell 0.9 next week.
At the Tribune we're keeping our old projects on 0.8 unless there's a
compelling reason to move them (e.g. they're in active development
now, or have some bug or problem that makes it worth splitting it
out).

Here's the general strategy:

* One-project-per-repo is the new architecture, so you'll want to do
this for each project.
* Move 'base' to '_base'.
* Rename base/config.py _base/base.py and take out all configuration
variables (filters and such should stay)
* Copy project assets (both templates and static files) into root
project directory.
* Translate old project's config.py to new tarbell_config.py format
(which should be easy... it's greatly simplified).
* Edit old project templates to use relative links instead of
static_url function.

The Google group is just another venue to discuss Tarbell and for us
to easily distribute announcements about new releases and higher level
questions (e.g. should we make data sources pluggable?). If you find
any bugs, just put 'em in the Github tracker.

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