On Nov 13, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Daniel O'Connell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here are some thoughts after spending time away from Radiant:
>
> I have been running the 1.0 RC3 gem for a couple of weeks now on a production
> site. I'm very pleased with the simplicity and stability of the app.
> Using gems has also been such a pleasure. When I last used Radiant (0.7.1) I
> had such a problem working with extensions, that I did not feel comfortable
> in a
> production environment or passing the project on to others. The inclusion
> "Assets" means that for the present project, I only need three extensions;
> Copy Move, Banner Rotator and
> Mailer.
>
> Radiant is so elegant and simple, yet therein lies the power that unlocks the
> creative mind. Very ingenious and a pleasure to work in. So many CMSes are so
> full of bloat and eye candy
> as to be dizzying to the senses. I find this especially so for extended use.
> Radiant has taken a more minimalist approach that really shines especially
> for those 80% of sites and small teams. Word.
>
> There is a bug (I just filed #290), where if a default page status is not
> first chosen, creating a new child page throws an application error. If this
> happens, simply go into
> settings and choose a default page type e.g. draft and all is well again.
>
> Thanks again to all the developers for all of the hard work that has gone
> into the redesign of the interface and the effort to move their extension to
> gems. Sweet.
>
> -Dan
Thanks for the feedback and the bug report!
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