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Welcome to the "Will It Ever Stop Raining" edition of Habari Flashback. This week has been a bit busy, as is to be expected with the new DR. So, here goes.

Habari-Dev posts

In SimplePie
Chris J. Davis looked for a consensus as to the inclusion of SimplePie's rss fetching systems in Habari Core. There was some debate as to the usefulness of this inclusion.

In auto-backup when upgrading
Chris J Davis wondered about including an automatic database backup in the upgrade process. It was suggested that, while non-trivial, this is something to explore.

In On Deleted Posts, and Managing Content
Geoffrey Sneddon began a discussion regarding handling of deleted content in Habari. The use of a "trash can" and the inclusion of an auto-purge of such was discussed.

In Platform
Owen Winkler discussed the nature and goals of the plugin system, specifically as related to extending Habari to non-blog applications.

In Getting off Google Code
Owen Winkler brought up the subject of moving Habari's code hosting away from Google. Merits of various options were discussed.

Issues

In Fresh Installation broken
tinyau.vampire noticed that the MySQL and SQLite schema were not synced, this was fixed.

In Log viewing in admin broken
tinyau.vampire posted some issues with incorrect references for the database. He provided a patch, which was committed.

In Plugin - Pingbacks
freakerz posted a plugin for doing pingbacks, this patch was committed.

In Patch - Add new controls to FormUI
freakerz posted a patch to extend the FormUI controls.

In Plugin - Menu Manager
freakerz posted a patch for including menus in themes.

In Error on svn up, r750
bishopblogworks posted a paste of an error message received when updating to r750 from svn.

In |del| and |ins| close |p|
geoffers noticed that <del> and <ins> tags cause <p> tags to close. This was reported fixed in r752

In Missing valid filter, nolimit. theme.php
freakerz noticed that the nolimit filter did not work and posted a patch which was committed

In Pagination borked on multi-word search
rbowen2000 pointed out that multi-word searches gave incorrect results. A partial solution was provided by freakerz

In [PATCH] Add new hooks to theme.php (user_filters and fallback)
freakerz posted a patch to allow allow user created filters to work on $post in themes.

In Fix the remaining permalink problem in dashboard
tinyau.vampire posted a patch to places where the correct permalink reference was not used.

In K2 as bundled with Habari still claims GPL license
smerrill corrected the license used for K2 in habari.

In K2 style includes support for WordPress plugins
smerrill suggested excising some portions of the code in the K2 theme that do not pertain to Habari.

In Patch - $post->statusname
umbrae posted a patch to allow for retrieval and filtering of post status names.