Fwd: Website buildscript is live!

[Andrew Myers]

We could provide some javascript to select the correct image.

I'm borrowing from Ubuntu's code here, but I've attached an example of
how this could be done using Javascript.

The .js shoud be hosted on our site, and it would be even better if
rather than using the client date, it was served up dynamically to
just show the correct number.

People can then just include the javascript into their own sites, eg:

<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://www.fedoraproject.org/fedora-counter.js"></script>

You can grab my demo of this from
http://www.yacy-forum.org/test/fedora-counter.zip

On 23/10/2007, Mike McGrath  wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Ricky Zhou wrote:
> > > Since about 20 minutes ago, the website is being generated from Genshi
> > > templates using a python script.  This should make the site easier to
> > > maintain, and also enable cool features like our brand new automatically
> > > updating release counter :)
> >
> > Looking at the image, it seems to be pregenerated. It would be better
> > if  we can provide a dynamically updated banner that others can copy
> > into their blogs. Clicking on the banner could lead to the release
> > schedule.
>
> They are pregenerated.  If someone wants to do the work I'm sure it
> would be easy for us to implement it.  /me notes what Ubuntu did:
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown
> -Mike
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[Ricky Zhou]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:56:05AM +1000, Andrew Myers wrote:
> We could provide some javascript to select the correct image.
>
> I'm borrowing from Ubuntu's code here, but I've attached an example of
> how this could be done using Javascript.
>
> The .js shoud be hosted on our site, and it would be even better if
> rather than using the client date, it was served up dynamically to
> just show the correct number.

Great idea!  I modified the script a tiny bit to match the logic that's
the website is using to generate the counter:

var today = new Date();
  var release = new Date("November 8, 2007 14:00:00 UTC");
  var millisBetweenDates = release - today;
  var days = Math.ceil(millisBetweenDates/1000/60/60/24);
  if (days < 0) days = 0;

document.write('<div id="banner"><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule"><img src="http://fedoraproject.org/images/counter/' + days + '.png" alt="Fedora 8 Werewolf unleased in " + days + " days." style="border: none;"></a></div>');

What do you think?  Should we put this up/start spreading it?

Thanks,
Ricky

[Bart Couvreur]

Op woensdag 24-10-2007 om 16:22 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Ricky
Zhou:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:56:05AM +1000, Andrew Myers wrote:
> > We could provide some javascript to select the correct image.
> >
> > I'm borrowing from Ubuntu's code here, but I've attached an example of
> > how this could be done using Javascript.
> >
> > The .js shoud be hosted on our site, and it would be even better if
> > rather than using the client date, it was served up dynamically to
> > just show the correct number.
>
> Great idea!  I modified the script a tiny bit to match the logic that's
> the website is using to generate the counter:
>
> var today = new Date();
>   var release = new Date("November 8, 2007 14:00:00 UTC");
>   var millisBetweenDates = release - today;
>   var days = Math.ceil(millisBetweenDates/1000/60/60/24);
>   if (days < 0) days = 0;
>
> document.write('<div id="banner"><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule"><img src="http://fedoraproject.org/images/counter/' + days + '.png" alt="Fedora 8 Werewolf unleased in " + days + " days." style="border: none;"></a></div>');
>
> What do you think?  Should we put this up/start spreading it?

Yeah definitely, this would be very cool! Just imaging surfing somewhere
and being greeted by a werewolf :-)
> Thanks,
> Ricky

Bart

[Andrew Myers]

Sounds good. Do we have a
http://fedoraproject.org/images/counter/0.png file for when it's
> What do you think?  Should we put this up/start spreading it?
>
> Thanks,
> Ricky

[Andrew Myers]

Sorry cut that message off prematurely.

I meant to finish by saying do we have a 0.png file for when the
counter reaches 0 to say that F8 is now available or something
similar?

On 25/10/2007, Andrew Myers  wrote:
> Sounds good. Do we have a
> http://fedoraproject.org/images/counter/0.png file for when it's
> > What do you think?  Should we put this up/start spreading it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ricky

[Ricky Zhou]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:48:19AM +1000, Andrew Myers wrote:
> I meant to finish by saying do we have a 0.png file for when the
> counter reaches 0 to say that F8 is now available or something
> similar?

Ah, somebody mentioned this in #fedora-websites as well.  Hopefully, we
can have separate "0 days" and "F8 is here!" banners for those last 24
hours :)

Máirín- could you create a "Released" banner to show after the countdown
is over?

Thanks,
Ricky

[Ricky Zhou]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:47:17AM +1000, Andrew Myers wrote:
> Sounds good. Do we have a
> http://fedoraproject.org/images/counter/0.png file for when it's

I've put the counter script up at /js/release-counter.js for now (see
http://ricky.fedorapeople.org/ for an example of it in action).  Once we
have an image for after Fedora has been released, I can add that case to
the javascript.

The usage is something like:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://fedoraproject.org/js/release-counter.js"></script>
<noscript>November 8th 2007 - Fedora 8 Release</noscript>

I haven't explicitly put up instructions for this anywhere else, but
hopefully, people can start using it on their websites/blogs and such
and spread it that way for now :)

Thanks,
Ricky