[themes] themes.drupal.org upgrade

[Ken Rickard]

Bèr-

I think I'm qualified to do some testing now, though I can't test layouts
for IE/PC.  But I can review code and functionality.

Drop me a note and we'll see how I can help.

- Ken Rickard
agentrickard



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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 00:06:53 +0200
> From: B?r Kessels <ber at webschuur.com>
> Subject: [themes] themes.drupal.org upgrade
> To: infrastructure at drupal.org
> Cc: A list for theme developers <themes at drupal.org>
> Message-ID: <200608050006.58769.ber at webschuur.com>
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> Hello all
>
> For tomorrow I have an upgrade of themes.drupal.org planned. And after
> taht I
> want to change some concepts on short basis.
>
> What will change during/after the upgrade:
>   The themeswitcher http://themes.drupal.org/themeswitcher will dissapear
> completely. It looks like crap, is not used often (acc to the logs) and it
> is
> horrible in performance (no paging, no caching, read s files from disk to
> generate the listing etc. We should/must look at a PHP page on Drupal.org
> very soon, or else automate some project.module stuff to link to
> themes.drupal.org. After all: selecting/finding themes is not the task of
> themes.drupal.org
>
>   We will have a completely skinned down Drupal on themes.drupal.org.
> Actually
> it will be a Drupal with only story.module, comment.module, a few
> published
> stories and a few comments. The rest are required (admin) modules. I will
> remove all other modules.
> This makes a horrible representation of themes/Drupal. Esp because the
> niceness of themes is not defined by how well they render a story (Drupal
> is
> far more then a blogging system). But by how well they handle the forums,
> aggregators  and the admin area. How well they handle popular contribs
> such
> as images. We need to find a solutution for this!
>
> We *really* need some process to select themes. Currently I am the only
> one
> that manually reads trough theme code and the theme CSS/HTML to see if a
> theme is fit for themes.drupal.org. This leads to a) a huge lag, themes
> may
> be released for months before available b) a big security hole. I have
> only
> two eyes, and simply reading code is NOT  a security measure.  Simply
> trusting/installing committed and released contribs (themes) is not an
> option
> IMO on our infrastructure. In the current pace we will get approx 10-15%
> of
> the released themes online on themes.drupal.org without endangering
> drupal.org too much!
>
>
> Bèr
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