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"I've had that conversation way too many times. I agree with you completely." - Michael C. Harris

"While what you say is true, it's actually a really poor excuse. We're in this to build the best blogging platform that can be built, and we can't hide behind the fact that none of us have much time and aren't getting paid to do it. The reality is, no-one installing the software gives a rat's arse how the software gets built, they just want it to work well (and "work well" is glossing over all sorts of complexity and individual difference, of course). If the install experience is poor, we really need to pull our collective fingers out and fix it." - Michael C. Harris

"You're completely right, and I appreciate you taking the time to say why you've decided Habari isn't right for you at the moment. We are aware that the documentation is lacking at the moment, and there is work active to get the wiki more organised (see the wiki working group). We're also working on better management of themes and plugins (see the addons directory working group. As with all open source projects (that don't have paid, full-time employees, thanks Andy :) the way that these things happen is that people step up and do them. Communities around projects take time to develop, and there's ebb and flow as people get busy in life and $work. Any time you'd like to come back and be part of that community, we'd love to have you!" - Michael C. Harris

I don't know what's going on in my universe at the moment, but it seems everywhere I turn women are being treated like crap. Yeah, okay, that's not just at the moment or just in my universe. - Michael C. Harris

"Not particularly the top ten, just a random ten that I think look super great. All of these designs are original. Meaning that they're not running any of the available Habari themes out there. After all, the themes deserve an entry of their own." - Michael C. Harris from Bookmarklet

"I think I first heard it from Tim Bray. One day, I'd really like to find a yak to shave." - Michael C. Harris

"This is a great overview of the first few moments you get to spend alone with a distro. And an enjoyable read too." - Michael C. Harris

"Do secret police have a uniform? When we finally meet, I want to hit the pubs in uniform.@jem Anyone who treated you like an idiot is a blind dope. Call it a loss to their community and a win for Habari.@jane Don't you dare!! ;)" - Michael C. Harris

"Your involvement is a win for Habari, and shows even more strongly how important it is that open source projects are as inclusive and welcoming as possible. I think Habari does a pretty good job at that, but we can always improve." - Michael C. Harris

I've been loving Rachel's drawing a day project. Of course, I get to see the output more regularly than she posts them. - Michael C. Harris

"I glimpsed the new iSnack on the telly and have to say I thought they were joking." - Michael C. Harris

I didn't really understand point of this. Did he have the 'Install' page pre-filled and simply pressed 'Submit'. The he recorded the elapsed time to complete the action and render the page using some Web development tool that reported 12.4 seconds. Why is that interesting or useful to potential Habari users ? - Andy C

He's got an AppleScript that installs Habari. I guess useful if you were installing a lot of Habari. - Michael C. Harris

An error on the plugins page about XML ? Which plugins ? Many of the ones in extras have been updated. It's a very easy update (move the plugin's info() function to the new XML format). - Michael C. Harris

twitter plugin with an new XML format file, but the admin/plugins become "White Screen" - fireyy

Other people are using the twitter plugin ok. Maybe pop in to IRC to sort out if you're still having problems ? - Michael C. Harris

"I'm not going to completely discount the possibility of human goodness. Like I said in the post, I've had someone buy me a bus ticket before when things were difficult (I couldn't speak Farsi, so I couldn't tell them where I wanted to go). That was a very positive experience. Besides, and more importantly, when you're travelling you _need_ to trust people to a certain extent, especially in places where you don't speak the language. The alternative is to have a very dull travel experience." - Michael C. Harris

"Oops, I got that round the wrong way ... I was pretty sure they _weren't_ going to kill us. Fixed." - Michael C. Harris

notes on migrating to habari - Jem

Definitely a good resource. The #habari IRC channel (or the LiveHelp plugin) also gives access to developers for real time help and advice. - Michael C. Harris

"Here's another option, my preferred; use svn whether you're using the stable version or HEAD.If you want to use a particular version use the tag for that version. For example, the latest stable is http://svn.habariproject.org/habari.... When there's a new release you can simply run svn switch to the new stable tag. It's also easy to merge specific changes from trunk into your working copy of a tag if there's something that's been fixed or improved that you want before a new release." - Michael C. Harris

"Write away, I say." - Michael C. Harris

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"Thanks, an interesting list. Surely iTunes or Amazon take a huge chunk of the purchase price ?" - Michael C. Harris

"It's really only been the last year and a half that I've started to seriously try to find music again, so I guess it's no surprise that I've missed those "many sites". Also, being an artist, you're probably more familiar with how the funding works from the artist's point of view. Anyway, it seems I was wrong about what thesixtyone is; it's more a discovery tool (a competitor to last.fm) rather than for music purchase (though it is possible to download or purchase some music)." - Michael C. Harris

Yes. - Michael C. Harris

I see what you did there - Ed F

"How many of your developers wake up in the morning excited to work on your project? If the answer is not “all of them”, you probably need to look at how open source projects attract developers and motivate them to write code for free." - Michael C. Harris from Bookmarklet

"What, you don't think it was them belated reading my post, and the messages I sent to them telling them of the issue ?" - Michael C. Harris

"Back in the days when you cared about traffic, eh ? And the result of your experiment ?" - Michael C. Harris

"Thanks for the feedback, John. We're aware that finding themes and plugins is difficult at the moment, and we're working on making it easier. Hopefully we'll have something in place around the time of the 0.7 release.There are a number of ways to get the Autosave plugin. A zip file can be downloaded from the Habari web site, or you can access it through subversion at the extras repository I linked to above.The Subpages plugin is only available for 0.7 alpha (it won't work on 0.6 at all) and is considered alpha, but it can be download from the same place.If you've got any other questions, try the live help plugin I linked to above." - Michael C. Harris

I'm biased, but I say switch :) #habari has a supportive community, is flexible and easily extensible. - Michael C. Harris

"I completely agree about the mighty mouse. They feel horrible in your hand." - Michael C. Harris

"You're right, the mdash entity does map to #8212 in both HTML and XHTML, so is much easier to use." - Michael C. Harris

"I'm flattered that you care :) My absence was caused by a stuff up by my hosting provider, and their subsequent ignoring of the ticket raised." - Michael C. Harris