Code Tour: 20 August - 25 August

[denise]

We have 18 bugs this week for your perusal, behind the cut. Most of them are new themes or styles backend work. Thanks as always go to this week's contributors!



Bug 2778: Theme: Mandala (ColorSide)
Category: Style System
Patch by: dancing_serpent
Description: This adds three themes for the ColorSide layout. Previews can be found here.

Bug 2969: Nouveau Oleanders: 3 themes by dancing_serpent
Category: Style System
Patch by: dancing_serpent
Description: Three themes for the Nouveau Oleanders layout. Previews here.

Bug 2767: sitescheme preview looks screwy
Category: Journal contents
Patch by: kareila
Description: There was a problem with the entry preview page, where certain CSS class definitions were not being applied. This adds them in.

Bug 2770: comment preview missing label and field
Category: Misc UI/Frontend
Patch by: kareila
Description: This fixes up the comment preview to add the proper label for the form, along with fixing a problem with edit reasons.

Bug 2921: Memories pass in user name, not user object; server error
Category: Misc Backend
Patch by: kareila
Description: Corrects a backend server error where the wrong parameters were being passed.

Bug 2800: Tranquility III: 3 themes by timeasmymeasure
Category: Style System
Patch by: ninetydegrees
Description: Three themes for the Tranquility III layout. Previews here.

Bug 2801: ColorSide: 3 themes by timeasmymeasure
Category: Style System
Patch by: ninetydegrees
Description: Three themes for the ColorSide layout. Previews here.

Bug 2948: Advanced Customization: Documentation link links to non-existent page
Category: Misc UI/Frontend
Patch by: ninetydegrees
Description: This changes the Advanced Customization docs to be a link to the DW wiki instead, where we've been doing our new S2 doc work. (Mostly due to foxfirefey being awesome.)

Bug 2281: Implement renaming for communities
Category: Communities
Patch by: fu
Description: Last week we committed renames for personal accounts. This week, we add renames for communities, as well. You'll be able to rename any comm that you're the admin of.

Bug 2740: more aggressive adoption of $u->equals
Category: Modernization
Patch by: kareila
Description: Changes around some of the backend code to use more modern references.

Bug 2748: Previews for non-dreamwidth commenters
Category: Misc UI/Frontend
Patch by: kareila
Description: Comment previewing was being inaccurate in some cases: we strip images and links from anonymous and unverified-OpenID comments for spam purposes, but the preview wasn't reflecting that, leading to confusion.

Bug 2804: inaccurate notification message concerning screened comment
Category: Inbox/Notifications
Patch by: kareila
Description: Fixes the message given in notification when a comment is being screened; it used to say that someone had to unscreen the message before you could reply, but we changed that.

Bug 2891: remove LJ::add_friend and LJ::remove_friend
Category: Modernization
Patch by: kareila
Description: Removing some old functions that we no longer need, since Dreamwidth doesn't have friends. (Insert joke about being lonely here.)

Bug 2961: heisenbug in comment test suite
Category: Misc Backend
Patch by: kareila
Description: A heisenbug is one that only appears when you aren't looking for it. This fixes one in the automated test suite. We hope.

Bug 1516: Selective Display of the Navigation Footer in Transmogrified
Category: Style System
Patch by: ninetydegrees
Description: This removes the empty box at the bottom of Transmogrified-based layouts when there's no navigation footer displayed.

Bug 2895: Styles: Add links to Your Layers
Category: Style System
Patch by: ninetydegrees
Description: This adds a link to public layers on the Your Layers page, so you don't have to go back and forth to find them while customizing.

Bug 2973: unknown string ".cluster.unknown" on /misc/whereami when clusters aren't set up on the installation
Category: Routing/TT
Patch by: fu
Description: This fixes a missing string so that people whose DW setup isn't exactly the same as ours don't have to worry about an unsightly error message.

Bug 2937: Previewing a style can use an inappropriate wizard layer
Category: S2 Backend
Patch by: exor674
Description: There was a very weird situation where sometimes the style preview used the wrong style. This fixes it!