Elision
Wow - was that really a week since the last post? Lots of things going on...

New site release is up (6.8.5). Features:

Improved login consistency - dropped the idea of a "theme" parameter being passed around, instead it's all now based on the title you're trying to access. If you came to the login page because you need to authenticate to see the page you requested, we base the login page theme on the theme of the title concerned. The title id is passed to the Forgotten Password page and back again to keep everything consistent.

All logins are now handled by the dedicated login processor. Previously the situation described above (you need to login to see what you requested) was handled by the page browser or issue browser - this led to inconsistencies where the preparation work done by our login processor wasn't taking place, so some options weren't getting offered to the user.

The year browser on the site's more accurate - we used to page your issue list into rigid chunks of 12 per page, then take you to the page containing the start of the requested year. Now we fine-tune the page start so it coincides exactly with the first issue from that year. This was a particular client request.

Some theme work for the same reason.

The load-balancer config's been updated to ensure that sessions are consistent across http and https requests.

Shibd still up and running in the test configuration. Waiting for confirmation from the federation before switching to a live config.

Also, imports and the regular monthly routines.

Going to clear remaining emails and dedicate today to getting S3 up and running for a test title.

T

Labels: projects, release, s3

- posted by Tim Bruce @ 10:41 AM