Question thread #51

[pauamma]

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.

Comments

[denise]

The code is on github: dreamwidth

Useful developer info is on the volunteer wiki; I'm on mobile right now and don't have the patience to argue with Swype until it stops correcting the url, but check the "some rights reserved" link in the footer of webpages; that leads to our open source info page, which includes a link to the wiki.

I know we updated a few of the xml-rpc methods for the access/subscribe split, but most everything should still work. What errors are you getting?

We pulled out the server docs because the version we forked from LJ was hella out of date. Right now, it's probably not worth the time to write a more up to date version, because we're actively working on a version 2.0 of the api and once we get that working, the old ones will be deprecated. But if we accidentally broke the old one and it's an easy fix, we're happy to take patches, or even a specific bug report with what's busted!

[gushi]

Turns out this was all pilot error. Code was trying to call (with backticks!!!) a copy of markdown that was no longer installed, so was left with a null body. (It's not a well-written client, but it works for those of us that live in a unix terminal).

Thanks!

-Dan

[denise]

Ha, good to know!

(FYI, if you start a post with "!markdown" on a line by itself, the site will interpret it as markdown, so you don't have to call out to a local copy.)

[gushi]

Oh yes, and I *love* this because the markdown is preserved if I decide to edit it later. Best feature ever.