Howdy all,
So, I fixed the shop, again. Maybe it actually works this time. (Yesterday it was issuing two licenses for every purchased license, because the payment processing module was calling the completed order function twice. Believe it or not, this one wasn’t a bug in my code! Hooray!)
The support module will be updated in a few hours to support the new issue tracker. I’ve ported the connector script to PHP, since we can’t safely hit the database anymore, so converting the Perl code was going to be difficult. So, it’ll not be part of the site so it can directly use the real Drupal API.
I’m also working on the API docs convertor.
Jamie let me know at lunch today that the new help search is complete, and the new Webmin release will be out in a couple of days. This is really cool news, and Jamie has put in a huge amount of work into the help system. If you’ve ever used Search in Webmin, you know that the results it returns for large modules can be…frustrating. It tells you what module the help file appears in, but not what page within the module. The new help search tells you exactly where to find the option or page that the help file applies to. It’s awesome. I was surprised by how much code it required to support this seemingly simple thing, until I actually thought about it for a while and realized there is no way to go “backward” from the help files in current Webmin. Making that backward trip possible is pretty complicated. So, it’s really nice that it’s now done. It will also enable a new Webmin reference guide compiled from all help files. Once I have an API docs convertor/importer, it should be trivial to make the same tools work for the Webmin docs. More docs is always good, right?
Cloudmin is flying off the shelves faster than we’d planned at this early date (the Cloudmin site hasn’t even launched yet!), and we’re a bit overwhelmed helping folks out with it. Mostly new customers, so we’re hearing from them via email so far (I suspect we’re also seeing slow uptake on the new tracker and such because it’s new and complex, so we’ll keep tweaking the site a bit so folks can find their way to the right places).
I haven’t heard any opinions on the new doc layout or the download page, but clicks and downloads are up, while forum posts and ticket tracker submissions are down, so I think we done good. Thanks to Eric for a lot of that work.
If it sounds like I’m winding down this thread…well, that’s because I am. Most of the really urgent issues with the site have been resolved. I’m still working on a lot of stuff (obviously), but when people need help now, they can get it. Likewise, when people want to buy software, they can buy it, and it’ll probably show up in their licenses page right away (except for Scott, it seems, but we’ll get that taken care of).
So, I’ll start posting new topics henceforth.