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Fwd: Relative links in markup files

Hi,

this feature of Github is very useful for quickly writing documentation.

 Zoltan

 https://github.com/blog/1395-relative-links-in-markup-files

Relative links in markup files

via The GitHub Blog by ymendel on 1/30/13

We show rendered markup in several places on GitHub, most notably
including a project's main README on the Repository page itself.

Starting today, GitHub supports relative links in markup files. Now
you can link directly between different documentation files, whether
you view the documentation on GitHub itself, or locally, using a
different markup renderer.

You want examples of link definitions and how they work? Here's some
Markdown for you. Instead of an absolute link:

[a link](https://github.com/user/repo/blob/branch/other_file.md)

…you can use a relative link:

[a relative link](other_file.md)

and we'll make sure it gets linked to user/repo/blob/branch/other_file.md.

If you were using a workaround like [a workaround
link](repo/blob/master/other_file.md), you'll have to update your
documentation to use the new syntax.

This also means your documentation can now easily stand on its own,
without always pointing to GitHub.

If you want more information, we have a help article for you. Happy documenting!

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Online circuit editor

 Hi,

for people on this list, this link might be interesting:

http://www.circuits.io/

It's an online schematic and layout editor for circuits. It does not
do simulations (so it is not direct competitor of ktechlab ;) ). I've
heard about that website in the news.

Best regards,

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Planning for project meeting on IRC

  Hi,

this will be a long email with information about a meeting that we
should have on IRC. The plan is to discuss on IRC and take decisions,
if they are needed. For efficiency I'm sending this email, so we can
have have discussions in emails, too.

The outline of the email is below:

1. time and date for the meeting
2. status
   - kde4 port, based on kdevplatform
   - conclusions about kdevplatform
   - kde3 version status, code repository
   - webpage and wiki: migration from sourceforge
3. plans
  - minimal usable functionality
  - what to do to have something working
  - sourceforge project: upgrade to Allura
  - future development procedure

1. time and date for the meeting

Because of different timezones (UTC+1 and UTC-4), I'm proposing to
have the meeting sometimes between 18h and 24h in UTC+1 time, which
translates in 13h to 21h at UTC-4 timezone. Please signal the dates
when you have time. On my part almost and date is fine.

Equivalence table:
  UTC+1:  8h 12h 18h 20h 24h
  UTC-4:  3h  8h 13h 15h 21h

2. status
   - kde4 port, based on kdevplatform

The KDE4 port is starting to work. For now running, getting a main
window and creating new circuits should work. If not, there is a bug.
The simulator is being built with Qt4, as a library. I'm currently
working on integrating the GUI with the simulator.
Flowcode is not being worked on at all, currently.

   - conclusions about kdevplatform

The plugin system is not working as well I've expected it. A lot of
time has been wasted by debugging "why the plugin is not loaded?".
Not reimplementing a lot of things is nice, but kdevplatform is having
many releases, and it's becoming complicated to track it.
For now, as the basics are there, and something is finally working, I
would keep working on the kdevplatform-based version until it works
completely.

   - kde3 version status, code repository

Because the KDE3 version is the only working one, we should keep it
working and update it with minor fixes, so ktechlab will be still
usable.
It would be great to test ktechlab on many distributions, in order to
ensure that it runs.

   - webpage and wiki: migration from sourceforge

We are using mediawiki from sourceforge hosted applications. We will
have to migrate from it, because sourceforge is retiring it.
I'm proposing to move to github's wiki, see my previous email.
With this move we also get benefits like: the wiki is under version
control with git; it can be offline edited by using the "gollum"
server, and updated with a git push.

3. plans
  - minimal usable functionality

In my opinion we should have some kind of alpha release pf the kde4
port, as soon as the port will have a minimal set of functionality.
This way we can attract community.
In my opinion a minimal set of functionality is:
- run ktechlab
- create a new circuit
- drag components on the circuit
- the interaction of the components gets simulated
With a few components working, minimal tests could be done.

  - what to do to have something working

What we need to get the minimal usable functionality working:
- integrate the simulator with the gui
- run the simulator
- display the simulation results in the gui

  - sourceforge project: upgrade to Allura

Sourceforge is upgrading its existing interface to a new one, called
Allura. At some point every project has to migrate.
See here:
http://sourceforge.net/p/allura/wiki/Allura%20Wiki/
At some point the ktechlab project will have to migrate, too.
- when to migrate: in my opinion we should migrate after we switched
to github's wiki, with about one month before sf.net is forcing
projects to upgrade ;)
- we should all agree about when to migrate, and who should perform
the migration
For now it's not urgent, but I'd like to have this scheduled.

  - future development procedure

I really like git, and I hope others in the project, too.
I placed this item in the agenda to give an opportunity for discussing
git and github related matters.

 - unit tests and distribution for testing

Most people won't want to compile ktechlab from the source code. It
would be great to provide repositories with packages for most of the
popular distributions.
One option is to use build.opensuse.org. Unfortunately I didn't manage
to write a proper .spec file for ktechlab yet. Help on this would be
great.

Best regards,

 Zoltan

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Migrating ktechlab wiki from sourceforge hosted apps to github wiki

 Hello,

probably you already know that sourceforge is working on retiring
hosted apps [1], [2]. Currently we are using mediawiki from hosted
apps as the project's main website [3].
As a migration option in a previous email I mentioned that the content
of mediawiki could be copied to ktechlab's github hosted wiki [4] and
that wiki could be used as the new main website for ktechlab.
Since I copied the wiki, there was no editing done on the mediawiki at
sourceforge. Now I'm planning to edit the wiki, and it would be easier
for me to do edits only in one wiki.

Hence, I'm proposing to:
1. declare that the wiki on github is the official ktechlab website
2. set the redirect on ktechlab.sourceforge.net to point to
github.com/ktechlab/ktechlab/wiki [4], instead of the mediawiki on
sourceforge [3]
3. place a banner on the wiki at [3] stating that the official website
is moving to [4], because sourceforge.net is retiring hosted apps.

Comments, remarks are welcome on this topic.

Developers: please signal if you agree with the actions listed above.

Best regards,

 Zoltan

[1]  http://sourceforge.net/blog/hosted-apps-retirement/

[2]  http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/community-docs/Hosted%20Apps%20Retirement/

[3]  http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ktechlab/index.php?title=Main_Page

[4]  https://github.com/ktechlab/ktechlab/wiki

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Latest developments

 Hi,

I've sent a few pull requests on github to ktechlab's repository:

https://github.com/ktechlab/ktechlab/pulls

Anybody interested in the changes feel free to comment on them, or
discuss them on the mailing list.
In case you are planning to review the changes in a few days, then
please signal it. Otherwise on Friday I will merge the pull requests.

Best regards,

 Zoli

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upgrade project to Allura platform on sourceforge

 Hi,

sourceforge is recommending to projects to upgrade their web interface
in sourceforge.net to the Allura platform.

At some point probably ktechlab will have to be upgraded; I'm
estimating that upgrading in 2-3 months is fine. For now I'm  sending
information about Allura and the upgrade, so we can have a discussion
on this topic.

Below I'm pasting links to information about SF.net Allura and the
text from the upgrade page.

https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/wiki/Features/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/allura/

Best regards,

 Zoltan

>From the upgrade page:

Upgrading your project to the Allura platform gives you access to some
great new features, including custom tracker fields, integrated wiki,
blog and code browsing tools, threaded discussions, and more! Here are
changes you can expect to see when you upgrade your project:

Will be upgraded
 At this time, we are able to update the following aspects of your project:
Meta-data (name, description, trove categories, etc)
Members and permissions
File releses, and download stats
Project News
Forums
Hosted Applications and Project Web
Virtual Host configuration and MySQL databases
Git, Subversion, Mercurial and CVS repositories
Mailing Lists
Tracker data
Project Donations

Will not be upgraded
 These items will no longer work after you have upgraded your project:
Bazaar repositories
Multiple Mercurial or Git repositories
SCM hooks
Trac will no longer integrate with SVN
Project Help Wanted
SCM, Forum, Ticket & Traffic statistics

Will work exactly the same
 These items will continue to function they way they currently do:
Project summary page
Files
Project Reviews

Note that the URLs used to access your code repositories will change,
and an email will be sent to all project developers with the new URLs
after the upgrade is complete.

Once you click Upgrade, the upgrade will be scheduled and will begin
shortly. Any changes made to your project while the upgrade is in
progress may not be reflected in the upgraded project.

If you have donations enabled, there will be a Donate link that will
allow donations. However, it will be a direct link to the PayPal
donation page, and individual donors will no longer be tracked or
displayed.

Prior to upgrading, you can obtain a copy of your project's data as an
XML file by clicking on the project name, selecting Project Admin »
Features, then selecting XML Export.

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Imported svn repository into git, available on github

 Hi,

I have cloned the svn repository of ktechlab from sourceforge and
pushed it to github.
This way the 0.3.6 series can be maintained a little more until the
0.4 release is done.

Is everybody OK with copying the old source tree in a new git
repository in ktechlab organization?
Comments, remarks and feedback in general is welcome.

In my opinion it doesn't make sense to copy the code from SVN into the
currently used ktechlab repository, and have 2 independent trees.
Instead, I prefer to have that codebase in a separate repository.

The imported code is available here:

https://github.com/zoltanp/ktechlab-0.3

Later this  this repository can be cloned into the ktechlab organization.

The original SVN can be browsed here:

http://ktechlab.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ktechlab/

If no issues appear, I will clone the repository from my user in
github to the organization ktechlab
on Thursday. If possible, please let me know if any changes should be
made to this repository before cloning it.

Best regards,

 Zoltan

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Copied content from sourceforge to Github

 Hi,

content from sourceforge has been copied to github's wiki:

https://github.com/ktechlab/ktechlab/wiki

The following content has been copied:
- mediawiki:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ktechlab/index.php?title=Main_Page
- backup of old mediawiki
- my notes from a private trac installation

There is only one outstanding issue: templates from mediawiki are not
working in gollum, the wiki software used by github.

Please test of the new wiki. At some point the new wiki will be
ktechlab's main homepage, because hosted apps on sourceforge will be
retired.

Comments, remarks, notes and any discussion is welcome.

Have a nice day,

 Zoltan

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