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It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

pauamma

kareila

Every once in a while, I run through

changelog compiling a list of who has been contributing patches to our code repository, with the understanding that this is not a competition, or any sort of "high score" list. It's intended as a guide for casual developers, to discern not only our most prolific contributors, but also those who have contributed to the project most recently and therefore would be more likely to provide a timely, informed response to development questions. That is why the list is sorted by "Latest" instead of "Changes".

In general, one commit on Github equals one point in the "Changes" column, but fractional points are awarded for collaborative efforts — the most common example being a new S2 theme, where usually half credit is awarded to the theme author and the other half to the person who converts the theme into a code patch. Due to the nature of development, some changes are massive contributions of new code, and others are tiny tweaks; there is no correlation with the amount of effort involved. We are grateful to everyone who helps to improve Dreamwidth, in ways large or small.

(Additional caveat: not all of the changes credited here are live on the site yet, but hopefully soon!)

I last compiled this list in November of 2024. Since that time, we have welcomed

sirilyan as a new contributor! Congratulations and thank you again!

  #  User                      Changes     Latest
  1. kareila                    1704.5     Wed Feb 05 17:34:47 2025 UTC
  2. momijizukamori             425.16     Sat Jan 25 19:38:38 2025 UTC
  3. alierak                      69.5     Mon Jan 06 02:34:09 2025 UTC
  4. mark                        826.5     Sat Dec 21 23:09:32 2024 UTC
  5. sirilyan                        4     Tue Dec 03 17:43:06 2024 UTC
  6. pauamma                       153     Tue Dec 03 05:45:55 2024 UTC
  7. soc_puppet                      1     Thu Sep 12 22:19:43 2024 UTC
  8. lenlen                          1     Thu Jun 06 17:52:08 2024 UTC
  9. chebegeek                       4     Sun May 19 00:26:34 2024 UTC
 10. veryroundbird                  24     Fri Jul 28 15:34:08 2023 UTC

 11. dependabot                      1     Tue Apr 25 20:48:48 2023 UTC
 12. vivtek                          1     Mon Feb 13 18:48:36 2023 UTC
 13. alansill                        2     Tue Nov 22 15:47:35 2022 UTC
 14. rmholsen                        1     Fri Jun 17 19:28:18 2022 UTC
 15. batrachian                     19     Mon Jan 17 19:44:30 2022 UTC
 16. martindemello                   4     Thu Aug 12 04:59:14 2021 UTC
 17. roadrunnertwice               416     Sun Feb 28 04:09:21 2021 UTC
 18. pinterface                     18     Sat Jul 11 03:07:04 2020 UTC
 19. alexwlchan                      5     Sun May 26 04:56:47 2019 UTC
 20. allen                          64     Mon Apr 29 17:10:26 2019 UTC

( The rest of the list... (173 total) )

pauamma

ilyena_sylph

Hey everyone!

Somehow we looked around at it had been an entire year since we did a code tour. What the heck even is time?

This is... not great, so here I am trying to write one for everything that's been done in the last year. Strap in, things might get a bit exciting!

Not every change is live right at this moment, but will be soon (hopefully)!

( lots and lots of fixed problems! )

56 total issues resolved
Contributors:

alierak,

belatedly,

chebegeek,

kareila,

momijizukamori,

pauamma

kareila

Every once in a while, I run through

soc_puppet as a new contributor! Congratulations and thank you again!

  #  User                      Changes     Latest
  1. momijizukamori             414.16     Mon Nov 25 20:51:25 2024 UTC
  2. soc_puppet                      1     Thu Sep 12 22:19:43 2024 UTC
  3. pauamma                       152     Thu Aug 08 03:46:31 2024 UTC
  4. lenlen                          1     Thu Jun 06 17:52:08 2024 UTC
  5. kareila                    1671.5     Fri May 24 16:51:26 2024 UTC
  6. alierak                      67.5     Fri May 24 16:26:49 2024 UTC
  7. mark                        825.5     Mon May 20 13:59:42 2024 UTC
  8. chebegeek                       4     Sun May 19 00:26:34 2024 UTC
  9. veryroundbird                  24     Fri Jul 28 15:34:08 2023 UTC
 10. dependabot                      1     Tue Apr 25 20:48:48 2023 UTC

 11. vivtek                          1     Mon Feb 13 18:48:36 2023 UTC
 12. alansill                        2     Tue Nov 22 15:47:35 2022 UTC
 13. rmholsen                        1     Fri Jun 17 19:28:18 2022 UTC
 14. batrachian                     19     Mon Jan 17 19:44:30 2022 UTC
 15. martindemello                   4     Thu Aug 12 04:59:14 2021 UTC
 16. roadrunnertwice               416     Sun Feb 28 04:09:21 2021 UTC
 17. pinterface                     18     Sat Jul 11 03:07:04 2020 UTC
 18. alexwlchan                      5     Sun May 26 04:56:47 2019 UTC
 19. allen                          64     Mon Apr 29 17:10:26 2019 UTC
 20. srukle                         13     Wed Dec 19 03:35:50 2018 UTC

( The rest of the list... (172 total) )

pauamma

momijizukamori

Writing this down for future documentation purposes because I don't feel like fighting with the wiki today.

1) Create a new folder in $LJHOME/htdocs/img/mood with a short-but relevant name
2) Put all the images for the new moodtheme in the new folder. Each image filename should be in the format <emotion>.<file extension>, with the emotion in lowercase, eg, 'cheerful.png'. There is a list of valid emotion names on the wiki
3) In a commandline, run

$LJHOME/bin/misc/mood-maker.pl --dir <dir name from step 1> --name "<visible title for mood theme>" --desc "<short description of mood theme>"

. Neither the name nor the description should contain any : characters. This will output formatted text, or error if there's a file that doesn't match one of the available preset moods.
4) Take the formatted output from (3), including the line beginning with MOODTHEME, and paste it at the end of $LJHOME/bin/upgrading/moods.dat
5) Update the database, following the regular dev maintenance update steps.

pauamma

kareila

Every once in a while, I run through

changelog compiling a list of who has been contributing patches to our code repository, with the understanding that this is not a competition, or any sort of "high score" list. It's intended as a guide for casual developers, to discern not only our most prolific contributors, but also those who have contributed to the project most recently and therefore would be more likely to provide a timely, informed response to development questions. That is why the list is sorted by "Latest" instead of "Changes".

In general, one commit on Github equals one point in the "Changes" column, but fractional points are awarded for collaborative efforts — the most common example being a new S2 theme, where usually half credit is awarded to the theme author and the other half to the person who converts the theme into a code patch. Due to the nature of development, some changes are massive contributions of new code, and others are tiny tweaks; there is no correlation with the amount of effort involved. We are grateful to everyone who helps to improve Dreamwidth, in ways large or small.

I last compiled this list in October of 2023. Since that time, we have welcomed

lenlen as a new contributor! Congratulations and thank you again!

  #  User                      Changes     Latest
  1. lenlen                          1     Thu Jun 06 17:52:08 2024 UTC
  2. kareila                    1671.5     Fri May 24 16:51:26 2024 UTC
  3. alierak                      67.5     Fri May 24 16:26:49 2024 UTC
  4. momijizukamori             404.16     Wed May 22 20:34:13 2024 UTC
  5. mark                        825.5     Mon May 20 13:59:42 2024 UTC
  6. veryroundbird                  24     Fri Jul 28 15:34:08 2023 UTC
  7. pauamma                       151     Wed Jul 05 18:54:26 2023 UTC
  8. dependabot                      1     Tue Apr 25 20:48:48 2023 UTC
  9. vivtek                          1     Mon Feb 13 18:48:36 2023 UTC
 10. alansill                        2     Tue Nov 22 15:47:35 2022 UTC

 11. chebegeek                       3     Wed Oct 26 01:30:42 2022 UTC
 12. rmholsen                        1     Fri Jun 17 19:28:18 2022 UTC
 13. batrachian                     19     Mon Jan 17 19:44:30 2022 UTC
 14. martindemello                   4     Thu Aug 12 04:59:14 2021 UTC
 15. roadrunnertwice               416     Sun Feb 28 04:09:21 2021 UTC
 16. pinterface                     18     Sat Jul 11 03:07:04 2020 UTC
 17. alexwlchan                      5     Sun May 26 04:56:47 2019 UTC
 18. allen                          64     Mon Apr 29 17:10:26 2019 UTC
 19. srukle                         13     Wed Dec 19 03:35:50 2018 UTC
 20. darael                         10     Sun Dec 09 01:41:18 2018 UTC

( The rest of the list... (171 total) )

pauamma

I can't login to the dwiki right now to update it, so have a post here instead. When updating your dreamhack's database as part of maintenance, you also need to update your test database by running

DW_TEST=1 $LJHOME/bin/upgrading/update-db.pl -r -p --innodb
DW_TEST=1 $LJHOME/bin/upgrading/update-db.pl -r --cluster=all --innodb
DW_TEST=1 $LJHOME/bin/upgrading/texttool.pl load

before restarting Apache. Failure to do that may cause mysterious fatal errors when running automated tests.

pauamma

juan_gandhi

I recently found I need to have dates in my posts before 01/01/1970. The reason being, I want to enter some diary records. I guess there may be other reasons for entering posts dated before 01/01/1970.

Had a discussion with support; they reasonably answered that 01/01/1970 00:00:00UTC is unix time zero.

The thing is, negative time does no harm; we can successfully go down to about Dec.13th, 1901 (as Wikipedia says). Maybe when we get closer to 2038, and 64-bit timestamps will make more urgent sense, we'll be able also to go down to ancient times, and record Roman or Egyptian history, but that's in the future.

I wonder how hard it would be to go ahead and widen the limits of timestamps. In my view, it must not be a big deal, right.

In our company, HealthExpense, now, unfortunately, nonexistent, we used this feature to mark patients dates of birth (since we had no patient born before December 1901). I think I even have some Scala classes for that, but have to ask whether they can be used.

Anyway, dw is not written in Scala, but still, this can feature can be added as an experiment.

What do you think?

(I've just joined this group, and this is my first post, so I might be missing something, please correct me in this case.)

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