GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 646763
Upgrade gnomejournal.org Textpattern installation
Last modified: 2013-05-28 12:25:11 UTC
At GNOME Journal (gnomejournal.org), we're on an old Textpattern installation that has bugs (it doesn't deal with lists in Textile correctly, and can't deal with longer articles). The installed version is 1.0rc1, from September 2004. Textpattern is now at 4.4.0. You can download the 1.0rc1 version, to see if any changes were made to the software, at https://textpattern.googlecode.com/svn/releases/1.0RC1/archives/textpattern_1rc1.tgz , and all subsequent versions at https://textpattern.googlecode.com/svn/releases/ That site "contains a copy of each official Textpattern release, identical to the .zip/.tar.gz downloads. This is mostly useful if you’re looking for an old version." I hope you can upgrade the Textpattern installation fairly soon so we can publish the next GNOME Journal before April 6th. Thank you!
Sumana, the upgrade went horribly even after following the instructions in the README. It had to be reverted back to the existing 1.0rc textpattern. Sorry, but for now, you'll have to do without the upgrade. What is the timeline for moving GJ to wordpress? Now that blogs is upgraded to the latest and greatest, you should be able to start. I know some members of the sysadmin team are anxious to try this out for test.gnomejournal.org + the new wordpress multi network plugin. How do you want to proceed?
Jeff, If there's any chance you could upgrade GNOME Journal to a *slightly higher* version number of Textpattern (like 1.0rc5 or something), that might help with my immediate problem, which is that the current install won't let me post an article that is 23064 bytes. I'll check the changelogs to see what version we'd have to upgrade to in order to fix that. I'll also plan to work around the problem by splitting the article into two parts, which makes me grumble a bit but you gotta do what you gotta do. I've filed bug 646821 to track/request GJ's transition from Textpattern to WordPress. Jeff Waugh last year said it might take two weeks, and requested Lucas Rocha's help.
I will be unable to do this today. Perhaps someone else can handle.
ping? This came up again in https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-October/msg00000.html
Actually, Sumana is incorrect in the mail saying nothing was ever done. I upgraded textpattern to the newest version and the textpattern upgrade scripts failed MISERABLY. So that GJ was coherent, I downgraded the files and the database to the previous and current version. My recommendation is to not upgrade textpattern at all. If you want to use something newer, please work on migrating it to wordpress. Myself or one of the other sysadmins can help you out if necessary with this. If someone else wants to try to tackle the textpattern upgrade, thats fine by me as well. But I wasted an hour or so trying to figure out why the upgrade scripts blew up.
I think I'm the only person now who probably is interested in seeing a change in the status quo. Let's work on figuring out how to migrate everything to WordPress. That is what we are supporting anyway, correct? I have all the access to do this.. tell me what I should do? Perhaps I can work on it over a couple of nights?
gnomejournal.org has been shutdown (no one maintaining it properly), the domain currently redirects to wgo.