Cerrisian Blog

So I’ve been playing with the Pinax 0.7 beta 3 a bit. So far it all looks good, but I’m running into a few issues:

• Wikis don’t appear to work correctly for projects. They do work for tribes, though.
• It’s difficult to add a pinax component to a basic project because they have many interdependencies. Bookmarks (for example) depend on a multitude of seemingly unrelated packages. This is making it much harder to create a simple reddit-like site using the bookmarks app added on top of the basic project.
• Lack of the documentation that *I* specifically need, I’m sure I can figure it out quickly enough, but this is a point where this could be improved.
• Lack of tests for components of Pinax. Many of the pinax components don’t appear to have automated tests checked into source control with them, these would be a great source of examples/additional information on how they’re supposed to work.

This means I’m left with a couple different ways I can approach the problem. Just take the social app and disable all the URLs I’m not interested in, or take the basic app and whip something simple togheter on top of it.

In either case I have to continue to retain my current function feedjack planet. An additional feature that I’d like to add is the ability to vote on blog posts and submit new RSS feeds through a form.

I think I’ll go with disabling things and modifying the Pinax setup to do basically what I want. It’ll give me a chance to learn Pinax better and is more likely to succeed. Where success getting a new feature on the website, even if the feature isn’t exactly what I envisioned