## Design
* The design is equivalent to the old design, just with the design trends of the current time (alternatively, built in the 21st century, but without sufficient design clue)
-* Too much wasted space on the left side
-* Too much wasted space on the top
-* Too grey
-* Blocks of color are gratuitous and jarring
-* Gradients are gratuitous
-* A design that could be reused for other websites with minor color tweaking would be nice (like the Debathena stylesheet)
+* What do we put on the right side?
* Rectangles and straight lines make it look angular and stark
-* The design is too generic; needs more SIPB personality, so that another website couldn't just be swapped in
+* The design is too generic; needs more SIPB personality, so that another website couldn't just be swapped in (Define SIPB personality)
* Consider rebranding possibilities (e.g. making fuzzball more "internal" like octocat on github, developing new logos, etc.) (publicity opportunities)
## Todo
* git push (scripts-git, or gitosis on an XVM)
-* commit zephyrs for git (wiki.git and ikiwiki.git)
-* breadcrumbs style
* make style usable for other SIPB sites?
* make title == alt on images
* sipb-door widgets
* migrate sipb.mit.edu/doc
* usability tests
+### Done
+* commit zephyrs for git (ikiwiki.git)
+* breadcrumbs style
+* add a grumpy fuzzball favicon to replace the ikiwiki one.
+ * feel free to make a better one if you like ~fawkes
+* all those other things we did before putting our todo here...
+
## How Things Work
(this is by fawkes's understanding, it may be wrong)
###When a request comes in:
- a connection comes in for sipb.mit.edu which via a hack in MIT DNS gets directed instead to PENGUIN-LUST.MIT.EDU. If its on ports 80, (443?), or 444 it gets passed off to scripts (where its handled by b-m or b-k, whichever).
+ a connection comes in for sipb.mit.edu which via a hack in MIT DNS gets directed instead to PENGUIN-LUST.MIT.EDU. If its on ports 80, (443?), or 444 it gets passed off to scripts (where it's handled by b-m or b-k, whichever).
-vhost configuration on scripts looks in ~~sipb-ww/web_scripts and checks the .htaccess file:
+scripts has a special vhost config (/etc/httpd/vhost.d/sipb.conf) for
+sipb.mit.edu:
- if request is for /rtfm.html,
- pass through
- if request is for /iap pass of to stuff/iap
- (lives in /afs/athena.mit.edu/activity/s/sipb-iap/www/ of all place)
- if request if for /cgit, or /wiki
- pass through
- else
- pass request for foo to wiki/foo, served from there
+ DocumentRoot /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/sipb-www/web_scripts/wiki
+ Alias /doc /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/sipb-www/web_scripts/doc
+ Alias /iap /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/sipb-www/web_scripts/iap
+ Alias /cgit /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/sipb-www/web_scripts/cgit
+ Alias /~sipb-www /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/sipb-www/web_scripts
+For our purposes the key line is the first, meaning that URIs not
+falling into an exception are served straight out of
+web_scripts/wiki/. This directory's contents are generated by ikiwiki
+after each edit, consisting of HTML files and a program ikiwiki.cgi.
-###For developments sake:
+###For development's sake:
####How Do I make edits?
-If you want to just edit contents, use the web interface (edit links at bottom of page) or "git clone git+ssh://sipb-www@scripts.mit.edu/mit/sipb-www/wiki.git", make your edits in the mdwn, etc.
+If you want to just edit contents, use the web interface (edit links at bottom of page) or "git clone git+ssh://sipb-www@scripts.mit.edu/mit/sipb-www/git/wiki", make your edits in the mdwn, etc.
+
+When you commit, ikiwiki should get automatically republished as HTML.
+
+To work on the code surrounding the wiki in addition to the wikitext, clone the superrepo:
-When you commit, ikiwiki should get automatically republished as HTML
+ $ git clone git+ssh://sipb-www@scripts.mit.edu/mit/sipb-www/git/sipb-www
+ $ cd sipb-www
+ $ git submodule update --init
####Detailed Locker Layout
| |-- ikiwiki: where some basic things are pulled from during build
| |-- locale: i18n things we aren't using
| `-- man: where the manpages really live
- |-- ikiwiki: thing of it as like a mix of etc and build
+ |-- ikiwiki: think of it as like a mix of etc and build
| |-- cgitrc : configuration for cgit
| |-- ikiwiki.setup: configuration for ikiwiki
- | `-- src: where the git repo (wiki.git) is staged for building
+ | `-- src: where ikiwiki checks out wiki.git for building
|-- src
| |-- cgit: where cgit was built from (not actively changed)
| |-- ikiwiki.git: the git repository representing the SIPB
- | variation on ikiwiki.
+ | | variation on ikiwiki.
| `-- old.ikiwiki: irrelevant
|-- web_scripts
- | |-- RCS: .htaccess mus be versioned
+ | |-- RCS: .htaccess must be versioned
| |-- cgit: what you look at when you click on "History"
- | |-- doc: the old Trac Wiki
+ | |-- doc: the old Trac wiki
| |-- iap -> /mit/sipb-iap/www
| |-- radiant: old and irrelevant
| |-- rtfm: contains an index.html identical to rtfm.html below
| |-- rtfm.html: served for rtfm.mit.edu:80
| `-- wiki: the published HTML that you are being served right now
- |-- web_scripts_tmp: old directory around to keep trac up-to-date. Should
+ |-- web_scripts_tmp: old directory around to keep trac up-to-date. Should
| vanish sooner or later
- `-- wiki.git: this is where all the content lives as markdown. Clone this
- if you hate web interfaces
+ `-- wiki.git: this is where all the content lives as markdown.
+ Clone this if you hate web interfaces.
sipb-www / wiki.git / blobdiff