Update: Forum Problems

Hi all, just some infos regarding the well-known problems of this forum:

Since several people addressed the problems with this forum to developerWorks since mid-April ...
and I have adressed the problems again to them in july, with the remark that it is frustrating that 1000s of hours of work were put to the gutter, due to technical failure during the forum migration ...
I was told in july that the developerWorks team is working on these issues as a "high priority issue".

I was glad to find out today that at least the search functionality of the forum seems to work again (yey!). Anyhow since the still did not fix the legacy code problems I escalated this problem and the whole treatment of the community on this forum to a higher level IBM representative. Hopefully this will bring us some good news in the near future.

Regards, Mathias

Mathias Mamsch - Tue Nov 19 20:18:34 EST 2013

Re: Update: Forum Problems
Mathias Mamsch - Tue Dec 17 04:43:02 EST 2013

News: It seems finally DeveloperWorks is starting the repair of the old forum content. The following answer I got from IBM:

We have deployed, on an internal server, the
   legacy forum software and the pre-migration forums, and have identified
   all of the approximately 1700 posts in the DOORS DXL forum that contain
   code snippets. Our plan is to manually copy over (by hand, one at a
   time) the properly formatted code snippets from the internal server to
   the production server, effectively replacing all of the broken ones with
   their original formatting. We expect to start this task next week, and
   expect it to take a few days.

Lets hope the manual repair will not introduce "human error" and finally give us our work back ;-)

Regards, Mathias

Re: Update: Forum Problems
llandale - Tue Dec 17 16:20:25 EST 2013

Mathias Mamsch - Tue Dec 17 04:43:02 EST 2013

News: It seems finally DeveloperWorks is starting the repair of the old forum content. The following answer I got from IBM:

We have deployed, on an internal server, the
   legacy forum software and the pre-migration forums, and have identified
   all of the approximately 1700 posts in the DOORS DXL forum that contain
   code snippets. Our plan is to manually copy over (by hand, one at a
   time) the properly formatted code snippets from the internal server to
   the production server, effectively replacing all of the broken ones with
   their original formatting. We expect to start this task next week, and
   expect it to take a few days.

Lets hope the manual repair will not introduce "human error" and finally give us our work back ;-)

Regards, Mathias

1700 individual posts with DXL seems a bit low to me. Maybe they mean "blocked text".

Re: Update: Forum Problems
JeffAntley - Thu Jan 09 17:06:11 EST 2014

Mathias Mamsch - Tue Dec 17 04:43:02 EST 2013

News: It seems finally DeveloperWorks is starting the repair of the old forum content. The following answer I got from IBM:

We have deployed, on an internal server, the
   legacy forum software and the pre-migration forums, and have identified
   all of the approximately 1700 posts in the DOORS DXL forum that contain
   code snippets. Our plan is to manually copy over (by hand, one at a
   time) the properly formatted code snippets from the internal server to
   the production server, effectively replacing all of the broken ones with
   their original formatting. We expect to start this task next week, and
   expect it to take a few days.

Lets hope the manual repair will not introduce "human error" and finally give us our work back ;-)

Regards, Mathias

We have completed our manual repair of the posts in the DOORS DXL forum that contain code snippets in blocked text. Code that was not in blocked text has not been altered.

If any code snippets in this forum were overlooked, or if any require additional attention, kindly send a note to talk2dw@us.ibm.com and we will address it.

To insert code in future posts, click the Add code button (located next to the Paragraph Format drop-down) in the post editor.

Re: Update: Forum Problems
adevicq - Fri Jan 10 03:31:11 EST 2014

JeffAntley - Thu Jan 09 17:06:11 EST 2014

We have completed our manual repair of the posts in the DOORS DXL forum that contain code snippets in blocked text. Code that was not in blocked text has not been altered.

If any code snippets in this forum were overlooked, or if any require additional attention, kindly send a note to talk2dw@us.ibm.com and we will address it.

To insert code in future posts, click the Add code button (located next to the Paragraph Format drop-down) in the post editor.

Hi,

I don't see any "Add code" button near the paragraph format combo or anywhere else... (see attached)

I'm on IE11.

regards,

Attachments

IBMForumEditor.png

Re: Update: Forum Problems
HazelWoodcock - Fri Jan 10 04:11:03 EST 2014

adevicq - Fri Jan 10 03:31:11 EST 2014

Hi,

I don't see any "Add code" button near the paragraph format combo or anywhere else... (see attached)

I'm on IE11.

regards,

The 'Add code' button looks like

and it should be just before the Paragraph Style dropdown. I am using FF25.

Thanks to the team for their work in doing the conversions.

Re: Update: Forum Problems
Mathias Mamsch - Fri Jan 10 05:20:01 EST 2014

JeffAntley - Thu Jan 09 17:06:11 EST 2014

We have completed our manual repair of the posts in the DOORS DXL forum that contain code snippets in blocked text. Code that was not in blocked text has not been altered.

If any code snippets in this forum were overlooked, or if any require additional attention, kindly send a note to talk2dw@us.ibm.com and we will address it.

To insert code in future posts, click the Add code button (located next to the Paragraph Format drop-down) in the post editor.

Thank you very much for your efforts! Everything looks good so far! Thanks also for giving the update!

Re: Update: Forum Problems
WardEdwards - Thu Jan 16 14:22:35 EST 2014

test post

Re: Update: Forum Problems
PWalchli - Thu Jan 16 14:24:28 EST 2014

WardEdwards - Thu Jan 16 14:22:35 EST 2014

test post

Test post

Re: Update: Forum Problems
Wolfgang Uhr - Fri Feb 14 04:52:27 EST 2014

JeffAntley - Thu Jan 09 17:06:11 EST 2014

We have completed our manual repair of the posts in the DOORS DXL forum that contain code snippets in blocked text. Code that was not in blocked text has not been altered.

If any code snippets in this forum were overlooked, or if any require additional attention, kindly send a note to talk2dw@us.ibm.com and we will address it.

To insert code in future posts, click the Add code button (located next to the Paragraph Format drop-down) in the post editor.

We have completed our manual repair of the posts in the DOORS DXL forum that contain code snippets in blocked text. Code that was not in blocked text has not been altered.

Thats nice, but it is a little bit overdone, isn't it? The best way is to fix the old pages as a static set of pages and start a new forum. But this is your work, not mine.

For me there are not so good messages: If have just tried to log in from my office pc. Thats impossible. I cannot submit my login data. I'm still locked out

Re: Update: Forum Problems
Wolfgang Uhr - Fri Feb 14 04:52:27 EST 2014

JeffAntley - Thu Jan 09 17:06:11 EST 2014

We have completed our manual repair of the posts in the DOORS DXL forum that contain code snippets in blocked text. Code that was not in blocked text has not been altered.

If any code snippets in this forum were overlooked, or if any require additional attention, kindly send a note to talk2dw@us.ibm.com and we will address it.

To insert code in future posts, click the Add code button (located next to the Paragraph Format drop-down) in the post editor.

We have completed our manual repair of the posts in the DOORS DXL forum that contain code snippets in blocked text. Code that was not in blocked text has not been altered.

Thats nice, but it is a little bit overdone, isn't it? The best way is to fix the old pages as a static set of pages and start a new forum. But this is your work, not mine.

For me there are not so good messages: If have just tried to log in from my office pc. Thats impossible. I cannot submit my login data. I'm still locked out

Re: Update: Forum Problems
Wolfgang Uhr - Fri Feb 14 04:52:49 EST 2014

JeffAntley - Thu Jan 09 17:06:11 EST 2014

We have completed our manual repair of the posts in the DOORS DXL forum that contain code snippets in blocked text. Code that was not in blocked text has not been altered.

If any code snippets in this forum were overlooked, or if any require additional attention, kindly send a note to talk2dw@us.ibm.com and we will address it.

To insert code in future posts, click the Add code button (located next to the Paragraph Format drop-down) in the post editor.

We have completed our manual repair of the posts in the DOORS DXL forum that contain code snippets in blocked text. Code that was not in blocked text has not been altered.

Thats nice, but it is a little bit overdone, isn't it? The best way is to fix the old pages as a static set of pages and start a new forum. But this is your work, not mine.

For me there are not so good messages: If have just tried to log in from my office pc. Thats impossible. I cannot submit my login data. I'm still locked out

Re: Update: Forum Problems
Wolfgang Uhr - Fri Feb 14 04:56:04 EST 2014

Wolfgang Uhr - Fri Feb 14 04:52:49 EST 2014

We have completed our manual repair of the posts in the DOORS DXL forum that contain code snippets in blocked text. Code that was not in blocked text has not been altered.

Thats nice, but it is a little bit overdone, isn't it? The best way is to fix the old pages as a static set of pages and start a new forum. But this is your work, not mine.

For me there are not so good messages: If have just tried to log in from my office pc. Thats impossible. I cannot submit my login data. I'm still locked out

Oh - your Skript tolds me three times, that the post could not be send ...