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hacks for SamizdatEngine

These are experimental hacks only! Do not install them unless you're sure you know what you're doing and you know how to reverse them. They will most likely get overwritten and lose their functionality when you update samizdat. They might even have unexpected behaviour like melting your hard drive.

You are most welcome to help integrate these into the samizdat main development branch in a way that is systematic and sustainable in the long term - please join in the discussion on the mailing list: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/samizdat-devel

It might be better to keep the savannah database updated with patches rather than this wiki page - for the moment, check both! https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?group=samizdat

DONE (seem to work), not yet integrated into cvs main development trunk

• will be maintained/developed until integrated into cvs

import_feeds.rb version 0.4 (for importing RDF etc. feeds)

• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/samizdat-devel/2007-05/msg00005.html valid on 20070506
  • TODO: open publishing of feeds (adding a feed presently requires site maintainer access)
  • TODO: special resource class Feed http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/samizdat-devel/2006-10/msg00005.html

calendar-0.4

• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/samizdat-devel/2007-05/msg00007.html

separate-translation-0.2

• IMC Japan may want this
• https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/index.php?5882
  • patch 0.2 https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/download.php?file_id=12723
  • older: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/samizdat-devel/2007-03/msg00000.html valid *pre*-20070501

Sort of done: demonstration from user point-of-view

• These hacks are low priority for integration into samizdat. They are unlikely to be maintained and are likely to be out-of-date relative to the latest cvs version of samizdat.

expand_aliases 0.2 ("alias" is probably not the right term)

• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/samizdat-devel/2007-05/
• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/samizdat-devel/2006-12/msg00008.html
  • BUG: this is just a quick and dirty hack, hardwired into .rb routine
  • TODO: these should be openly publishable - e.g. configurable in a .yaml file?
  • dmitry recommends: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/samizdat-devel/2007-01/msg00004.html
• after samizdat-20061207: - apply in engine/message.rb (not template.rb)

message_graph.rb version 0.1.4

• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/samizdat-devel/2006-12/msg00007.html
  • BUG: CRITICAL: Incredibly slow - 500 times slower than on command line
  • TODO: general cleaning up and tidying
    • TODO: properly document the algorithm!
  • TODO: if it's fast, could it be on the front page? make it more modular?

To Do List

More organised samizdat TODO list

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/samizdat/samizdat/TODO

mobile phone -> email -> samizdat interface

to do well before July 2007! (G8)

class PoliticalPrisoner < Message

A subset of the message class for organising appeals on political prisoners. The idea is that "non-techies" would probably not use this directly, they would publish default message formats, but then "web techies" could transform these checking things like origin/credibility of the info, sources, case background, which organisation(s) are supporting him/her, does s/he (or family representatives) wish his/her full name to become public, addresses of authorities with political responsibilities to whom to send appeals to.

• http://www.huridocs.org may be relevant here

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Deprecated (kept here only for historical interest)

message: message_hide_patch 0.4 - included in samizdat as of snapshot 070218

• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/samizdat-devel/2007-01/msg00007.html
  • 0.4: modifies history.rb and template.rb
  • discussion: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/samizdat-devel/2007-01/threads.html
  • likely to soon be integrated into main stream -- BouD - 26 Jan 2007
    • included in samizdat as of snapshot 070218

quick and dirty but functional calendar

- e.g. using a focus and sorting by date?

• • DONE: see calendar-0.4 or later above