geekroom

I submitted a bunch of our local webgui changes back to the distribution today, including:

• support for alphabetized site maps,
• Hide from Navigation support for site maps,
• record deletion for the DataForm object,
• support for aggregate RSS feeds, and
• Encrypt Login support

Some of these changes aren’t even running on our production server yet, since I’m waiting for a good time for a upgrade (I’d like to let the system sit for a while after the last painful upgrade process).

Regardless of my desire to give back to the webgui folks for their fine work, there’s actually a selfish motivation to get this stuff committed back to the distribution. Whatever changes I run on my local version of the code have to be re-applied to the code everytime I update the distribution. Depending on how many and which changes there were in any given update, this can be both a time sink and a risk of breakage for me. So it’s trememndously helpful to have everything bundled into the distribution so that my upgrades are as painless as possible. As a bonus, I get lots of other folks to test my local changes.