Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] news ui removal changes

[Michael J. Flickinger]

Karl Berry wrote:
> To do the news ui removal that I just posted about, what I did was edit
> in-place
> /usr/src/savane/frontend/php/forum/forum.php
> /usr/src/savane/frontend/php/include/news/forum.php
> on frontend.
> 
> I didn't see any bits in the database which would support making it
> conditional, and presumably upstream savane doesn't want these changes
> as-is.  (Sylvain asked me to revert an earlier commit I made.)

You could of used an "on/off" variable for this, specified in
savane.ini.  I'll make a change for this, leaving it on by default.

> 
> We somehow have to disentangle ourselves from upstream so we can commit
> changes without messing them up -- our situation is only going to get
> worse.  There are already tons of uncommitted changes, and committed
> changes not live on our host.  But I don't understand git anywhere near
> well enough to do that.
> 
> Meanwhile, I'll try to figure out the sql for deleting the actual spam
> items.  Unfortunately it seems some early follow-ups are real.
> 
> karl
>