More release preparation work
to : Martin Holmes
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PS finished his CSS work so I did a test build and found a couple more issues which needed additional work before we could release. After many fixes, I started finding typos and spelling errors in the bios and vessel info, so I’ve postponed release again until I can do a proper spell-check through them.
On Tuesday I started with a comprehensive run of the spell-checker, which also finds duplicate
words, and found literally hundreds of typos and spelling errors to fix. After working through
them, I rebuilt the site and started testing; there were other bugs, such as the new organizations
page not having a title, and having nested <details> elements so the JS for
expanding all of them through a checkbox was not working. After fixing all of these problems,
everything looked good, so I did a release. However, it was immediately apparent that some
fonts were not working on the server; we were getting 403s trying to download them. The issue
turned out to be the presence of more than one period in the filename, which was presumably
confusing Apache. PS and I renamed the problem fonts and fixed the CSS, and I did another
build, tested, and released.
At the same time, I noticed that in all the confusion I had neglected to archive the
previous 2.2 version in the old folder, and it was basically gone. However
it was fairly easy to recreate it by exporting the svn revision it was built from and
running the build process again; I had to tweak a couple of things to get around
changes in vnu’s release location and staticSearch deprecations, but it worked
fine and we now have an archived 2.2 on the server. A nice payoff from Endings practice.