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Translations, Testing and Community

Ben Eastaugh — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:31:23 +0000

There’s a brief (eight paragraphs is brief for me) article up on my personal site on translations, testing and community. If you can’t be bothered to read it (and I wouldn’t blame you), the gist of it is a big thumbs-up to the people who’ve helped us out with Tarski over the last month or so. We couldn’t do it without you (quite literally, in some cases).

1.2 Beta Now Available

Ben Eastaugh — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:25:06 +0000

Just to let the people who volunteered to test 1.2 for us know, the beta is now available to download. Check this forum thread for details. This hopefully means the 1.2 release isn’t too far away, and I’ve updated the roadmap to reflect this. If you’d like to help test Tarski, I’ve re-opened the signup thread.

Running the Alpha

Ben Eastaugh — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:17:16 +0000

As I mentioned in my previous post, my website’s theme broke the WP admin panel, so until Chris and I figure out what’s going on, I’ll be running Tarski. Since 1.2 is not a million miles away from finished, I thought I’d upload that and use my site as a sort of field test to iron out bugs—I’ve already caught a couple. Hopefully we’ll iron out the biggest issues over the weekend and get a Beta copy out to our testers. We’ll keep you posted.

We’re Not Dead

Ben Eastaugh — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:33:40 +0000

Honestly. Real life (and paid work) just took the reins for a bit; you know how it is.

Chris and I hope to get back to working on 1.2 shortly—the frontend code is all there, we just need to finish up the new options page, tie it into the new loop code, and test it. We’ll keep you abrest of our progress.

We’re still dealing with support queries on the forum, so if you have a Tarski mod or custom style you’d like to show off, or just need some help sorting something out, drop by and give us a shout.

Roadmap Update

Ben Eastaugh — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:52:17 +0000

The roadmap has been updated to give a more accurate and complete picture of what’s going to be in 1.2, but I thought I’d write up a brief summary of where things stand and where we go from here.

Firstly, I’ve rewritten a fair amount of the CSS, to make it more flexible and extensible. Content areas (such as entries, comments and so on) are now denoted by the content class, while the two columns are referred to by primary and secondary classes. This replaces a large and disparate set of classes and ids, making the code cleaner and easier to extend and modify. Additional stylesheets, for example, should now be much easier to write.

Secondly, Chris has been working on the Tarski Options page, cleaning it up and improving it substantially. We hope that the new version will be easier and more intuitive to use.

There are also the usual raft of tweaks and improvements, including the much-requested pagination and next/previous links, better trackback and language support, and a new and improved loop.php file which should make modifications based on the Tarski code much easier to implement.

1.2 beta test

Because there are such substantial alterations to the code, we want to run a small test before releasing it publicly. Sign up for the 1.2 beta on this forum thread.

Beta applications are now closed.