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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #90, on November 9th, 2012, 09:32 AM »
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Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #91, on November 18th, 2012, 05:39 PM »
1 - How long have you been a SMF user? (Approximately...)
2 - If you're planning to use Wedge on a live forum, post its URL.
3 - How much daily time you think you can devote to testing Wedge. (If you're planning to use it on a live forum, you can also rely on your users to help test it.) Please keep in mind that we'd like to keep the private alpha period relatively short (no more than a couple of weeks would be ideal), so I'm really asking about the next couple of weeks mainly. (Well, at least the first couple of weeks after the initial release.)
4 - Is there a feature in Wedge that you're most interested in? Something you'll focus your testing on, etc... Or just something you're just excited to use!
5 - If you're a hot young lady, post a picture of you, preferably on a boat (in front of a boat is also acceptable), or in an administration building's waiting line. Extra points if you're wearing a Fez on your left hand. Fezzes are cool.
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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #92, on November 20th, 2012, 06:01 PM »
So Wedge is already in the alpha stage! Wonderful news!
I was too busy with my rock band and I had missed it, but luckily live627 sent me a PM telling me. Thanks mate! Cannot wait to try it.
@Nao and/or Arantor> Can you add me to the testers group? Just now I don't see any "download" album inside "media".
I am planning to test it in a few live forums, but haven't decided yet exactly which ones, so I will give you links to them as soon as I do that.
BTW, most of the forums I administer are Spanish, so if I am going to use Wedge in them I will need to translate it to Spanish first. Anybody already working on that?
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I was too busy with my rock band and I had missed it, but luckily live627 sent me a PM telling me. Thanks mate! Cannot wait to try it.
@Nao and/or Arantor> Can you add me to the testers group? Just now I don't see any "download" album inside "media".
I am planning to test it in a few live forums, but haven't decided yet exactly which ones, so I will give you links to them as soon as I do that.
BTW, most of the forums I administer are Spanish, so if I am going to use Wedge in them I will need to translate it to Spanish first. Anybody already working on that?
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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #93, on November 20th, 2012, 06:10 PM »
Thus far I've suggested staying away from translation simply because of the fact that there's going to be plenty of changes yet.
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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #94, on November 20th, 2012, 07:04 PM »
Changes so drastic to make worthless a translation?
Even if the difference (in language string lines) between alpha and gold is 50% I would think it's worth to start translating.
Of course it depends on how much spare time I can find, but apart from translating it, I don't see anything else I can do to collaborate just now.
Even if the difference (in language string lines) between alpha and gold is 50% I would think it's worth to start translating.
Of course it depends on how much spare time I can find, but apart from translating it, I don't see anything else I can do to collaborate just now.
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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #95, on November 20th, 2012, 07:07 PM »
Not worthless, but potentially enough to make it more effort than just translating a complete language would be.
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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #96, on November 20th, 2012, 08:10 PM »
I have no problems with anyone trying to make a translation for Wedge... But as I said, this translator would have to be proficient in using diff tools because we're not going to release a language-centric online tool like the SMF team did. (Well, if they shared said tool with us, we could install it on our server but I'm not sure why they would do that in the first place, to be honest.)
Also, sorry about still being very largely absent from here... I can't even keep up with the new posts. I have a few things that are getting close to being committable (fixes and improvements, mostly to Wess), but I just can't find the motivation to come back into the game for now.
Given that it's the very first time it has happened since our officiel début two years ago, and it didn't even happen in my previous burnout situations, I can only reckon that this is half-due to my current burnout, and half-due to my satisfaction at having a half-working alpha out, something like 'now it's your time to work guys' ;)
However, I'll still have to complete Wess and document it either way...
Would love it if some testers were willing to write additional code to add UIs for features like board types and show_when and all those cool features I never wrote a UI for. Honestly, it's not that I don't want to write the UI.. It's that the admin area has become Pete's, and it feels wrong of me to touch it too much. (Or maybe it's just because I hate writing both the French and English versions of every string I have to add... -_-)
Anyway. Wedge looks so cool. I hadn't used it in a couple of days, and it's so cool really.
PS: Pete, the wesql not found error still occurs... And exclusively on Chrome and Safari. Really, it baffles me. I'd suggest we just don't bother, and do a class_exists() test, and if false, just return instead of proceeding. After all, it doesn't seem to affect sessions in any way...
Also, sorry about still being very largely absent from here... I can't even keep up with the new posts. I have a few things that are getting close to being committable (fixes and improvements, mostly to Wess), but I just can't find the motivation to come back into the game for now.
Given that it's the very first time it has happened since our officiel début two years ago, and it didn't even happen in my previous burnout situations, I can only reckon that this is half-due to my current burnout, and half-due to my satisfaction at having a half-working alpha out, something like 'now it's your time to work guys' ;)
However, I'll still have to complete Wess and document it either way...
Would love it if some testers were willing to write additional code to add UIs for features like board types and show_when and all those cool features I never wrote a UI for. Honestly, it's not that I don't want to write the UI.. It's that the admin area has become Pete's, and it feels wrong of me to touch it too much. (Or maybe it's just because I hate writing both the French and English versions of every string I have to add... -_-)
Anyway. Wedge looks so cool. I hadn't used it in a couple of days, and it's so cool really.
PS: Pete, the wesql not found error still occurs... And exclusively on Chrome and Safari. Really, it baffles me. I'd suggest we just don't bother, and do a class_exists() test, and if false, just return instead of proceeding. After all, it doesn't seem to affect sessions in any way...
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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #97, on November 21st, 2012, 03:29 AM »
I understand exactly what you mean about ownership of certain areas, I've thought more than once about doing things with the media area in the admin panel, e.g. Harmonising everything to use the same style aesthetically and even the code in some places, but every time I think about it, it feels like overstepping my bounds.
As far as translations go, I think the first step is for us to break the languages folder up as we discussed, and if it helps any, I had an idea about having a language pack that I would be responsible for translating, that will be fun to do and will make sure I can keep on top of all the practical i18n issues that I've only really dealt with hypothetically from my perspective. People paying attention to my recent activity should have a clue as to what language pack that might be. If not, you fight like a dairy farmer.
And I see the error is there, but I really have no idea why because I can't reproduce it even on my server when using Chrome.
As far as translations go, I think the first step is for us to break the languages folder up as we discussed, and if it helps any, I had an idea about having a language pack that I would be responsible for translating, that will be fun to do and will make sure I can keep on top of all the practical i18n issues that I've only really dealt with hypothetically from my perspective. People paying attention to my recent activity should have a clue as to what language pack that might be. If not, you fight like a dairy farmer.
And I see the error is there, but I really have no idea why because I can't reproduce it even on my server when using Chrome.
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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #98, on November 21st, 2012, 05:51 AM »
May I suggest Transifex for translation platform? :https://www.transifex.com/
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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #99, on November 21st, 2012, 06:03 AM »
It's totally unsuitable for us, we don't use gettext style language files (for multiple reasons)
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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #100, on November 21st, 2012, 07:44 PM »
I understand exactly what you mean about ownership of certain areas, I've thought more than once about doing things with the media area in the admin panel, e.g. Harmonising everything to use the same style aesthetically and even the code in some places, but every time I think about it, it feels like overstepping my bounds.
I just don't feel like doing any admin work myself...
As far as translations go, I think the first step is for us to break the languages folder up as we discussed,
and if it helps any, I had an idea about having a language pack that I would be responsible for translating, that will be fun to do and will make sure I can keep on top of all the practical i18n issues that I've only really dealt with hypothetically from my perspective. People paying attention to my recent activity should have a clue as to what language pack that might be. If not, you fight like a dairy farmer.
Uh, no, that's not in Monkey Island.
Re: transifex, oh, the poetic irony... The French version of that website is no laughing matter. It sounds like it was translated through Google, or by someone who barely speaks French at the very least...
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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #101, on December 2nd, 2012, 08:09 AM »Last edited on December 2nd, 2012, 08:16 AM
Hey folks. Not sure if it's too late to post here or not, but I will anyway because I'm interested in testing Wedge. :P
1 - How long have you been a SMF user?
Since 2006 (6 years)
2 - If you're planning to use Wedge on a live forum, post its URL.
Only on a test site at first. I might start a live site with it once a more final version comes out and is upgradable. :)
3 - How much daily time you think you can devote to testing Wedge.
Varies greatly. I'm on the web literally all day, so I would be able to spend a good deal of time each day testing it.
4 - Is there a feature in Wedge that you're most interested in? Something you'll focus your testing on, etc... Or just something you're just excited to use!
The redesigned admin panel, theming, and thought box. :)
5 - If you're a hot young lady, post a picture of you, preferably on a boat (in front of a boat is also acceptable), or in an administration building's waiting line.
Yup, thats me... Don't be hating saying im a 19 year old male, and I'm not a smoking hot female. >.>
1 - How long have you been a SMF user?
Since 2006 (6 years)
2 - If you're planning to use Wedge on a live forum, post its URL.
Only on a test site at first. I might start a live site with it once a more final version comes out and is upgradable. :)
3 - How much daily time you think you can devote to testing Wedge.
Varies greatly. I'm on the web literally all day, so I would be able to spend a good deal of time each day testing it.
4 - Is there a feature in Wedge that you're most interested in? Something you'll focus your testing on, etc... Or just something you're just excited to use!
The redesigned admin panel, theming, and thought box. :)
5 - If you're a hot young lady, post a picture of you, preferably on a boat (in front of a boat is also acceptable), or in an administration building's waiting line.
Yup, thats me... Don't be hating saying im a 19 year old male, and I'm not a smoking hot female. >.>
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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #102, on December 2nd, 2012, 10:10 PM »
ohai!
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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #103, on December 3rd, 2012, 01:27 PM »
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1 - How long have you been a SMF user? (Approximately...)
Administrating since the early 1.0-Beta.
2 - If you're planning to use Wedge on a live forum, post its URL.
3 - How much daily time you think you can devote to testing Wedge. (If you're planning to use it on a live forum, you can also rely on your users to help test it.) Please keep in mind that we'd like to keep the private alpha period relatively short (no more than a couple of weeks would be ideal), so I'm really asking about the next couple of weeks mainly. (Well, at least the first couple of weeks after the initial release.)
4 - Is there a feature in Wedge that you're most interested in? Something you'll focus your testing on, etc... Or just something you're just excited to use!
5 - If you're a hot young lady, post a picture of you, preferably on a boat (in front of a boat is also acceptable), or in an administration building's waiting line. Extra points if you're wearing a Fez on your left hand. Fezzes are cool.
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Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« Reply #104, on December 13th, 2012, 11:21 AM »
Must say that I've been secretly following Wedge dev. and am excited for it.
So I guess I could at least try to get my hand on it and test if I should when the time comes switch to it. :)
I know I'm not an active user on the forums here but thats cause what time I have I try to spend on my work and social life instead.
But here goes:Quote User: whoa, cant say exactly but would say definitively since 2008.
Admin responsibilities: since 2009 ish.Quote The plan would be if possible to convert our site to Wedge, and it depends on the compatibility question to my fixes and what I want it to accomplish, but I will test it out privately before doing anything.
But this is the site: http://www.fenimo.comQuote It all depends on my work/social life and the boss. (a.k.a. GF).
But I would probably be able to squeeze about 1h a week into testing things out.Quote Well, the most important functions for me would be the forum itself, as we use it alot for communication for our guild. But also the Calendar function depending on how it would function.
As we today have SMF for the forum, WoW Raid Manager for scheduling raids. And all heck of different self coded things to fetch the data that I think is needed here and there.
And then TinyPortal to get some sort of site instead of only having the forum itself.
So perhaps the best answer is, Everything? :D
So I guess I could at least try to get my hand on it and test if I should when the time comes switch to it. :)
I know I'm not an active user on the forums here but thats cause what time I have I try to spend on my work and social life instead.
But here goes:
1 - How long have you been a SMF user? (Approximately...)
Admin responsibilities: since 2009 ish.
2 - If you're planning to use Wedge on a live forum, post its URL.
But this is the site: http://www.fenimo.com
3 - How much daily time you think you can devote to testing Wedge. (If you're planning to use it on a live forum, you can also rely on your users to help test it.) Please keep in mind that we'd like to keep the private alpha period relatively short (no more than a couple of weeks would be ideal), so I'm really asking about the next couple of weeks mainly. (Well, at least the first couple of weeks after the initial release.)
But I would probably be able to squeeze about 1h a week into testing things out.
4 - Is there a feature in Wedge that you're most interested in? Something you'll focus your testing on, etc... Or just something you're just excited to use!
As we today have SMF for the forum, WoW Raid Manager for scheduling raids. And all heck of different self coded things to fetch the data that I think is needed here and there.
And then TinyPortal to get some sort of site instead of only having the forum itself.
So perhaps the best answer is, Everything? :D