Open Beta and other improvements
We have gently rolled out a slew of improvements over the past two weeks, including one key feature: tagging! This means it’s time to go Open Beta, no need for invites anymore – registration is open. Alexandra has more over on the Qt Labs Blog [labs.qt.nokia.com].
Tagging is enabled on just about everything around here and should work the same way everywhere. Sections that can be tagged today are the forum, the wiki, our FAQs and this blog. Future plans include videos, eLearning, Qt books, groups and more.
With tagging we hope to provide the very best related content, but you already know this from surfing stackoverflow.com, so I’ll go on with other changes we have made recently:
- A print style has been added to save some trees
- Wiki-page-to-PDF export is there, handy for those whitepapers [developer.qt.nokia.com]
- Tagging grants points as you would expect, it’s currently open to everyone but will later require the grand rank of Ant Farmer [developer.qt.nokia.com]
- Registration is now open, if you have any trouble with the registration process feel free to log a bug at bugreports.qt.nokia.com [bugreports.qt.nokia.com] (we have tested it a hundred times this week but you never know)
- Categories on the wiki have seen improvements to presentation
- A plethora of small design changes and adjustments, cross-browser support is getting better (not for IE6 though)
- The forum now has a context menu on the top right, in one of those handy “tabs”
- This Blog page used to look a bit campy, that’s sorted
- If someone links in a huge image it will no longer break the page
- If you run a poll on the forum it now looks much better, the bars at least
- Your profile page now has the rank on top
- Cookies, login sessions, getting permanently rid of the yellow banner – all that has worked as expected for two weeks now
- Parsing code on the forum and wiki with the @ tag has been improved, but we still have two issues left to solve
If you are a Nokia Certified Qt Developer [qt.nokia.com] and would like to have the badge on your profile all you have to do is send us your certification ID on this form [developer.qt.nokia.com] and we will do the rest.
I have updated the Qt DevNet roadmap [developer.qt.nokia.com] on the wiki in case you want to know what’s coming after the holidays.
6 comments
July 8, 2010
Denis Kormalev, Area 51 EngineerSmall question about tagging system. In Ranks page there is a note about editing tags by Hobby Entomologists. But I can’t find how can I edit tags. Is editing not yet added or I simply missing something?
July 8, 2010
mariusg, Dinosaur BreederThanks, we will update that page. Add and delete are the actions supported at the moment.
July 8, 2010
Denis Kormalev, Area 51 EngineerAlso I can’t understand is tag search working or not. I know that there are some pages tagged with “listing” and some pages tagged with “qtcreator”. But search shows no results for first tag and only one result for second.
July 8, 2010
mariusg, Dinosaur BreederIt’s not 100% on the searches yet, we are rolling out some changes to tag search tomorrow to make it cover the forum and wiki better. That is the plan at least.
July 8, 2010
Marius Bugge Monsen, Lab RatAwesome! :) And with the new tagging module in place wouldn’t it be time to merge categories and tags? After all, a category is just a tag and several tags on a document just means that it falls into several categories, right ?
July 8, 2010
mariusg, Dinosaur BreederCategories exist in a hierarchy to organize things while tags are wild and beautiful for relating things. Our Wiki categories are hierarchical of course and you could think of the various boards on the forum as categories as well. Some like the mother – some like the daughter, but solutions like WordPress comes with both by default. We try to use both where it makes sense.
We had a discussion about dropping category support for the wiki a while back, no clear winner. I think it’s one of those topics that will never be fully resolved to everyone’s satisfaction :)