We've been working on getting Mercurial ready to use at Mozdev for awhile now; it turns out there's a lot to do to offer a new VCS for a hosting provider that's only offered CVS for 7 years:
- Write admin interfaces for selecting a project's repository and setting up new … read moreOther articles
Use GUI HTML editors for editing wiki content
We're looking to improve the experience of editing pages in our Wiki, and I'm wondering if we should just ditch "wiki" syntax and just support HTML and use a nice in-browser HTML editor.
It should be easy for us to continue to support CamelCase and square brackets to link to … read moreUsing mod_auth_mysql for Apache authentication for serving Mercurial
I'm trying to hgwebdir.cgi setup and that part is going pretty well; I have a default config file that is being loaded by the script and serving a collection of repositories properly.
What I'm having problems with is configuring authentication. I'm using mod_auth_mysql to try to do authentication under … read moreXUL extension parsing
XUL extensions are constructed very simply. Documentation on how they are constructed is excellent.
At Mozdev.org we have been focused recently on helping users find projects more easily as well as preparing for the upcoming Firefox 3 release by creating tools for our projects to perform secure installs and … read moreMozdev project overview and secure installations
Mozdev's project overview pages are now live and feature secure installations using InstallTrigger.
{IMG:503x334:/sites/silfreed.net/files/project-overview-cdn.png} Right now we don't have the download graph or the project stats in place, but the main functionality is there: - Project name and description - Project tags - projects are tagged … read moreMozdev project overview update
Reactions to our project overview mockup were very favorable, and I've made good progress this week getting the page setup and much more functional.
Here you can see our very own 'www' project's overview page:{IMAGE:465x231:/sites/silfreed.net/files/mozdev-project-overview-www.png}
As you can easily see, we don't … read moreMozdev project overview page
Something Mozdev.org has lacked for awhile now has been a project overview page that shows you a nice overview of a project with links to tools for a project as well as some basic information and stats.
As part of working on secure installations for projects I needed a … read moreNew downloads.mozdev.org features
New features have arrived at downloads.mozdev.org (D.MD.o). I'll just enumerate them to save space:
1. Redirect users to their closest mirror (bug#2807)read moreYou can check your closest mirror (and list of other available mirrors) by visiting the following link: <http://mirrors.mozdev.org/ip-check.html …
