From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T05:23:47+09:00
Subject: [ANN] New RCRchive is open

Dear Rubyists --

I am very pleased to announce the opening of the new, rewritten
RCRchive, still at http://www.rcrchive.net.  The new RCRchive
is a complete rewrite in Rails.  

Your old username and password should still work.  Ruwiki format
is still used for input, though the interface is less wiki-like
than it was (you just enter your own comment; you don't edit the
whole sequence of comments).  

The underlying RCR process has not changed, and as you'll see, the
basic functionality of the new RCRchive is fairly similar to that
of the old.  But I think it will be more stable and consistent in its
behavior.  

I've ported all the data over from YAML and Ruwiki files to a MySQL
database.  Everything should be there, though the existing comments
for any given RCR do not have their authors' names preserved (they
were split out from wiki text).  However, this should not matter much,
as they tended to be explicity signed (it was a wiki) or not (it was
a wiki :-)  In fact, I've retained a bit of the wiki "look": comments
are still displayed as a single block.  So if you want people to know
who wrote your comment, put your name.  (Authorship is however
recorded in the database.)

I am very aware of the non-validity of much of the XHTML code on the
site.  At least some of this has to do with the inconsistency of tag
usage in comments.  If anyone has ideas for how to normalize a site
like this automatically (including the existing data), I'll listen.
Meanwhile I would like to hear from anyone who has accessibility
issues with the site.  

I hope you enjoy the new RCRchive.  Let me know if you have questions
or spot problems.


David

-- 
David A. Black
dblack@wobblini.net