Tao further development and HTML5? [#1107102]

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gg4 CreditAttribution: gg4 commented 28 April 2011 at 04:57

Checking in on this as well

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seandunaway CreditAttribution: seandunaway commented 7 June 2011 at 08:42

I'm interested to know :)

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seandunaway CreditAttribution: seandunaway commented 7 June 2011 at 22:50

Easily my favorite base theme that fills a very sincere need. Thank you for all your efforts!

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jrsinclair CreditAttribution: jrsinclair commented 21 June 2011 at 06:03

I'd really love to see a HTML5 version of Tao.

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stephen Piscura CreditAttribution: stephen Piscura commented 18 August 2011 at 18:21

Hey i was about to create a new issue, but then i found this one, so i'll just paste in what i'd already written...

Tao users and abusers,

I'd like to get a conversation started about the future of Tao. Now that Development Seed has, for the most part, checked out of Drupal, it seems like one we should be having.

While it's not reached the popularity levels boasted by other starter themes, Tao is by no means merely a dependency of Rubik or some of the other Development Seed/Phase2 Technology distributions. Rather, the many users who agree with its strip-away-everything-unnecessary philosophy consider it essential for everyday theming. Here's a few posts that emphasize this point:

http://wiredcraft.com/blog/why-we-advise-against-most-starter-and-base-t...
http://brianegan.com/drupal-theming-zen-vs-tao/

Perhaps the first question to ask is if anyone is willing and able to assume a maintainer role for the project? In that Phase2 is in the process of redeveloping some of its distros for Drupal 7—OpenPublish being the most recent—it would seem feasible to me that they might fit this role. But maybe there's another go-getter who'd like to take this on.

It'd be great to hear other thoughts...

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Comment #6

barraponto CreditAttribution: barraponto commented 8 September 2011 at 22:26

@Stephen: I am a theme developer very fond of Tao and Zen, and would love to help, checking into the issue queues weekly or bi-weekly and fixing stuff, adding patches, etc. I've noticed David Coffey, from Phase2, is working on Tao and commiting stuff. I have contributed with a few patches (like #932744: Hide title in node pages and #1260954: Submitted information is always printed) and would love to become a co-mantainer for Tao. I have also contributed several patches for Zen, though most are not properly attributed (though you can look for barraponto in the git log).

As for HTML5, I'd say it is too soon for Tao. It has not completed the upgrade path from 6 (as described in http://drupal.org/update/themes/6/7) and Drupal is not ready for HTML5 yet (see http://groups.drupal.org/html5 for more on this).

Let's have Tao working properly in 7.x, and let's branch for HTML5. Let's also help with the HTML5 initiative.

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Comment #7

CoffeyMachine CreditAttribution: CoffeyMachine commented 4 January 2012 at 18:31

Status:

Active

» Fixed

All,
Please see my blog post on this topic:
http://www.agileapproach.com/blog-entry/tao-where-we-are-and-where-we-re...

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MacMladen CreditAttribution: MacMladen commented 18 January 2012 at 12:40

Status:

Fixed

» Postponed

I'd rather say postponed than fixed ;)

Sure, HTML5 is still a rough ride and surelly not everyone thinks HTML5 should be deployed same way. However, not to be too strict, some nice touches can be played, at least if not strictly semantic (which is really impossible) but to use basic HTML5 structures and tags and, of course, to pass HTML5 validation.

That is not too hard.

But I totally agree, first Tao should be full time D7 citizen.

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Comment #9

barraponto CreditAttribution: barraponto commented 18 January 2012 at 15:10

@MacMladen: I started checking the upgrade path from 6 to 7 (see http://drupal.org/node/254940 ). I will post my progress later in another issue. I guess once we make sure Tao is properly ported (some patches I posted to this queue were related to it), we can think of a stable release.

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Comment #10

barraponto CreditAttribution: barraponto commented 31 January 2012 at 15:33

You can follow the upgrade efforts at #1422968: Complete the update path from Tao 6 to Tao 7, since HTML5 is out of the question for now, i hope this answers where Tao is going. I am not from Phase2 nor am I a Tao mantainer or co-mantainer right now, so please help or ask Phase2 to support the effort.