Website changelog

Here is detailed information about website changes:

• 2009-03-06 Forum posts and comments can be saved directly, without prior viewing. (JM)
• 2009-03-01 Upgrade to Drupal 10. (JM)
• 2009-03-01 Fix access rights to rendering profiles and MLT profiles. (JM)
• 2009-02-25 Added new entries to the contribution manual: share your rendering profiles and luma files. (JB)
• 2008-12-23 Create new Live DVDs including a partition resizer and a Debian graphical installer. (JM)
• 2008-12-23 Add more fields and information to the camcorder database. Custom URL is www.kdenlive.com/video-editor/camcorder name for a better visibility on Google.
• 2008-12-23 Add a custom connect page where people connecting to Kdenlive web site are invited to contribute. (JM)
• 2008-12-23 Regenerate node access rules. I hope this bug is over. (JM)
• 2008-12-22 Remove and purge book access module, which tweaked access rules but did not work. As a consequence, only users with documentation writers rules can write and modify pages. (JM)
• 2008-12-22 Publish a database of supported camcorders. Kdenlive users are highly encouraged to report support of their camcorder. (JM)
• 2008-12-20 Upload Debian Live DVDs and CDs to run Kdenlive. (JM)
• 2008-12-19 When adding featured website, there are now two choices : video community and free software. A new link is provided to Video communities: http://www.kdenlive.org/link-community . We hope to register most video (active) video communities, so that they are aware of the availibility of Kdenlive free and open-source video editor. Users with documenation writer roles can add/modify featured projects. This is also quite important, as this will guide our G*** rank. (JM)
• 2008-12-19 Do not display email and IM addresses to anonymous and registered users. Email and IM is only available for documentation writers and admins. This should limit spam. Website address in your profile is visible to search engines. So do not hesitate to link back to kdenlive.org. (JM)
• 2008-12-18 Allow registered users to modify the user manual. (JM)
• 2008-12-17 Remove developer manual. Modify and reorganize main menu. (JM)
• 2008-12-17 Add a press review for Kdenlive: http://www.kdenlive.org/press. (JM)
• 2008-12-16 Allow attachments in comments so that users can post screenshots in the forum. (JB)
• 2008-12-11 Web site cannot display in 800x600 resolution. Remove Search in sockerfish menu. Remove News from sockerfish menu. Rename User manual into books. Test display 800x600 successfuly. (JM)
• 2008-12-11 Add a new homepage using Drupal Panels. This is just a first migration using some wiki text. There is still a lot to customize on the front page. For example, I would like to display a random tutorial. (JM)
• 2008-12-11 Display custom HTTP errors for page not found and access denied. (JM)
• 2008-12-11 Migrate the community menu to sockerfish menu. Community is now a vertical menu on the right side of the sockerfish menu. (JM)
• 2008-12-10 Use XHTML Pixture reloaded theme and display sockerfish menus. Remove Right pane. Use Two panes for better display on small screens. Some customization work is needed. Stretch page width to 100%. (JM)
• 2008-12-10 Add a links page displaying featured projects important for Kdenlive of video editing in general. (JM)
• 2008-12-10 Use FCK editor WYSIWYG to edit text in manuals and tutorials. (JM)
• 2008-12-10 Admins are now notived upon registration of new users, in order to activate accounts. (JM)
• 2008-12-10 Add duration field to tutorials. (JM)
• 2008-12-10 To avoid spam and offensive content, Kdenlive registration is now validated by administrators. (JM)
• 2008-12-10 Kdenlive web site was either attacked or had a serious breackdown. Major Drupal modules were disabled. As a result, the site was empty. I removed OpenID access as a first consequence of this problem. (JM)
• 2008-12-10 Kdenlive users can now display their location on a Google map: http://www.kdenlive.org/map/user
• 2008-12-09 Fix keywords on front page, which were not set by error or mistake. (JM)
• 2008-12-09 Wrote a howto make a tutorial for Kdenlive web site. (JM)
• 2008-12-09 Added an administration interface which allow Documentation writers to validate pending tutorials for publication. (JM)
• 2008-12-09 Allow any registered users to post a tutorial. Tutorials are kept non-published until an admin validates the tutorial. (JM)
• 2008-12-09 Skip captcha for registered users. (JM)
• 2008-12-09 Renamed "Write and Translate manual" -> "Contributor manual". I am now writing a tutorial explaining how to publish tutorials on our web site. (JM)
• 2008-12-09 Created a custom space for tutorials. Added custom search parameters. Added a Tutorial link in the menu. This is a first draft, which may evolve quickly to something more complex. (JM)
• 2008-12-09 Found spam messages on the forum. Uploaded and enabled a spam detection module validating email addresses. You will not be able to register the forum using a disposal email address. (JM)
• 2008-12-08 Allow registered users to rate content of forums and tutorials. (JM)
• 2008-12-08 The first tutorial is available here: http://www.kdenlive.org/tutorial/my-first-tutorial-bliptv. The page is based on a custom page using Drupal CCK programming. This is very basic at the moment. I will use View to transform these pages into a tutorial web service, with custom search options. (JM)
• 2008-12-08 Adding the required CCK and embedding modules to display video tutorials. Sorry for this one hour interruption of services. (JM)
• 2008-12-08 Rewrite Kdenlive presentation: http://www.kdenlive.org/about-kdenlive. I cannot do more today and hope that some native English speaker can comment. HTML editing is minimal, because I plan to use the panel module to create complex layout. This will allow to translate text easily, without complex HTML editing. (JM)
• 2008-12-08 Promote screenshot entry second in menu "About Kdenlive". (JM)
• 2008-12-07 Rename "Home" menu -> "About Kdenlive". Rename first entry "Overview". (JM)
• 2008-12-07 Enable the abuse module, which allows to flag and report offensive content. (JM)
• 2008-12-07 Display active topics on front page. (JB)
• 2008-12-07 Register Windows Live, Yahoo an Ask robots using sitemap.xml. (JM)
• 2008-12-07 Upgrade Drupal sitemap module. Finaly got http://www.kdenlive.org/sitemap.xml display long URLs. So nice! (JM) 2008-12-07 Allow images & attachments in new forum, and change forum theme. (JB)
• 2008-12-07 Generate clean URL for forum topics and messages. (JM)
• 2008-12-07 Migration of Phpbb forum to Drupal. Needs some testing. (JM)
• 2008-12-06 Point IRC chat module to #kdenlive instead of #kdenlive-dev on IRC. Do not allow anonymous users to participate in IRC chats. Display IRC chat in community menu. (JM)
• 2008-12-06 Add sharethis module and display sharethis icon on every page. (JM)
• 2008-12-06 Add URL redirect module. This allows us to redirect this external page from KDE: http://dot.kde.org/1228076951. Also alias http://www.kdenlive.org/download.php page. If you need more aliases, contact us on the mailing list. (JM) 2008-12-06 Add a test book for documentation writers. (JM)
• 2008-12-05 First statistics show that 36,82 % of visitors are running Windows. Maybe candidates for migration to GNU/Linux. Welcome folks. (JM)
• 2008-12-05 Promote book pages with higher ratios before user blogs. (JM)
• 2008-12-05 We are preparing for migration of the PhpBB 3.0 forum. We may lock it during migration. The whole process may take some time. (JM)
• 2008-12-04 Write installation guides for packages and source. This is important, as it may be #1 search on our site. (JM) 2008-12-04 Add a blog entry in community menu. (JM)
• 2008-12-04 Blog pages are now named [username]/[articlename]. Therefore it is easier for Google ... and us. (JM) 2008-12-04 Explore sitemap.xml and rename pages with node names. (JM)
• 2008-12-04 Trigger kdenlive website cron job every hour using a remote cron job on my server. (JM)
• 2008-12-04 Fix captcha font. (JM) 2008-12-04 Added printer friendly module. (JM)
• 2008-12-04 Publish robots.txt file for a better registration on Google. (JM)
• 2008-12-04 Updated all Drupal modules to latest snapshots. Added several new modules, including translation server, PDF export, taggadelic (tags based search), robots.txt, etc ... (JM)
• 2008-12-04 Kdenlive.org statistics are now tracked by Google Analytics. Tracking code is managed using a Drupal module. This should allow us to publish detailed information about our users and segment web site visits.
• 2008-12-04 Drupal contributed modules we moved to sites/all/modules directory. This makes it possible to manage contributed modules using an SVN server. (JM)
• 2008-12-04 Write detailed information about Debian installation. Users of Ubuntu, Mandriva, SUSE and FreeBSD are invited to describe installation in more details. (JM)
• 2008-12-03 Promote kdenlive about page to front page. This page opens on various informations and demos and should convince visitors to try Kdenlive. So don't publish anything else on front page. We will try make this page much better. Recent news are displayed on the right panel. (JM)
• 2008-12-03 Move download page to user manual. (JM)
• 2008-12-03 Add very basic sections to the user manual. (JM)
• 2008-12-03 Preliminary work to move pages to the developer manual. Change menu accordingly. (JM)
• 2008-12-02 Generate a http://www.kdenlive.org/sitemap.xml and publish it on my Google webmaster tools account. Google is now able to index every kdenlive.org page. (JM)
• 2008-12-02 Delete and rename automatically all book URLs. Now the structure of a book is book-name/page-name. Very nice for Google. As a side-effect, tutorials are broken. But ... we will probably create a custom view for them, so I removed tutorials from the menu, but only for a few days. (JM)
• 2008-12-02 Remove upper menu, as it was a secondary menu displayed twice. Furthermore, this menus proved not to display well under older versions of MS Explorer. And we want MS users to switch to GNU/Linux or FreeBSD. (JM)
• 2008-12-02 There are now four book: http://www.kdenlive.org/admin/content/book. Developer manual, user manual, About Kdenlive and Translation manual. Installing from source should be part of Developer manual. I will detail more tonight. People with Documentation writer rules have full access to these books. To have Documentation writer rules, apply on the mailing list. I hope that every wiki contributor can join us quickly.(JM)
• 2008-12-01 Rework the About kdenlive item. Now this is a Drupal book called "About Kdenlive". This book is the equivalent of a product brochure, presenting Kdenlive. I rewrote content, but I plan to add more text, links ... and very short video presentations. Stay tuned. (JM)
• 2008-12-01 Remove "power user" role. Rename "Editor user" role into "Documentation writer" role (JM).
• 2008-12-01 Clarification of menus : Home and Community. Remove Misc menu. Some work is still needed (JM).
• 2008-12-01 Connexion is now in the upper-left corner (JM).
• 2008-12-01 Removal of shoutbox module which proved to be a burden on various website that I manage (JM).
• 2008-12-01 Show KDE news feed to anonymous users (JM).
• 2008-12-01 Allow anonymous users to search content, but using a captcha (JM).
• 2008-12-01 Change pathauto to keep any custom alias during an update (JM).

To-do list

• Hard-code press review to allow user to post links to articles.
• Add a private space to allow users to upload and share material (transitions, lumas, etc ...)
• Make tutorials explaining how to write documentation online and how to translate Kdenlive.
• Embed tutorials in panels and write custom CSS.
• Embed Features in panels and write custom CSS.
• Use l10n translation server to manage translations of website.
• Load Kdenlive .pot into Drupal and hack configuration.
• Migrate Wikis to one or several Drupal books.
• Centralize translation to various languages using the translation server.

Contributors

• JM: Jean-Michel Pouré
• JB: Jean-Baptiste

Drupal contributed modules We plan to publish the list of modules used by Drupal web site. If you like a Drupal module and would like the module to be added on Kdenlive web site, contact us.