Yay Responsible Adulthood

[bethlakshmi]

...OK... semi-responsible semi-adulthood. Managed to get a nice dinner last night (mmm.... Indian eggplant and cold chicken & yogurt 'salad'), and then went home and cleaned up the paint scraping mess, and returned new_man's heat gun. Got distracted by the charming mermaidlady and a long discussion of how the SCA 'should be'. But, after some caffinated tea, got back home and FINALLY made the updates to the webpages I've been meaning to make.


Almost all of it is work on the headers and footers of each page, so a massive cut/copy/paste operation. Changes included:
- remove robots meta-tag so we can be found by Google and other search engines
- add a keyword meta tag so that when search engines find us, they'll know what we are about
- add SCA, Boston, MA to the page title and header, for further search engine encouragement and new person clarification
- put spam protection on webmaster email address at the bottom of each page
- add a link to a webmaster page, so I can have a forum for personal expression
- wrote forum and did some personal expression
- removed past events from events page

Still pondering the idea of a caro_web_dev LiveJournal, to be a forum for dicussion and a different kind of net presense. What I really want is a place for release notes, including both fixed and known bugs, as well as the opportunity to hear from users in a not-so-technical forum. Ended up in debate about this last Saturday... with the opposition suggesting a real bug tracking system would be more effective. It was a cogent enough argument to make me think about the process... but the more I think about it, the less I want my user forum to be something so technical as an acutal bug tracking system. Even the side a user usually sees - the trouble ticket system - is a bit formal for my taste. I think I want something where users can shoot off something simple to me, and the possibility of another user answering the first user's question may not be all bad...

I suppose I'll never know unless I get my act together and give it a shot. But not today... need to focus on work-things.



On the list for tonight - pay bills! Law & Order is great with bill paying. Sadly, I find that West Wing uses some of the smart part of the brain, which is also demanded by bill paying, so that I can't do both effectively. But the "drama" of L&O is fabulous.

Comments

[mermaidlady]

a long discussion of how the SCA 'should be'

It was more like we were in violent agreement about what awards were stupid and which ones were handled badly, and how good documentation should be written, rather than a complete restructuring of the Society. : )

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Hey, cool, I'm The Opposition. Although I looked into it a bit and setting up Bugzilla is not that hard, I can see why you wouldn't want to use it.

[lakshmi-amman.livejournal.com]

So you are learnedax, and learnedax is you... still learning handles, as the names are sometimes not either the person's regular name, SCA name, email address name, or anything else I might be able to logic my way through. :)

Thank you for doing the research - it may yet come in handy when we get to developing something more dynamic... and it stay helpful, if we end up with lots of different parts to the website (baronial stuff, various interest groups, etc.) in the future. Bug tracking is great when you have many people and/or lots of code.

One has always wondered... how does one track bugs on a bug tracking system? How many bugs could a bug tracker track if a bug tracker could track bugs?



ResponsibleAdultness = ResponsibleAdultness++;

Got car inspected today. Got warning from Boston Cops yesterday, and managed to get car inspected WITHOUT first getting a ticket.

Lakshmi: 1
Universe: 260

(today's count only)

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Nitpicky, I know, but 'foo = foo++;' does not change the value of foo. :-)

As long as the bug isn't "system entirely fails to work" (or even "cannot create new bug reports") many projects include tracking system bugs within the tracking system, e.g. in Bugzilla there are numerous bugs for product Bugzilla.

Re: Bugzilla

[jducoeur]

I agree -- Bugzilla is overkill for a project of this scale. It's also a smidgeon intimidating to non-techy users, whereas most people are getting pretty comfortable with posting comments to a blog these days.

IMO, an LJ blog (or, better, community) hits a reasonable level for this project: it provides a low-stress way of managing and archiving the light information traffic that's likely to be needed...