OpenACS.org Q&A Forums Summary: 9/1-9/2
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Security Issues
There's a
security
alert out for
Oracle.
(
Discussion)
Versions affected include 8i, 9i, and through 10.1.0.2.
Packages:
- Polls: Deds
Castillo will be committing
a polls port soon.
- Survey:
Malte Sussdorff reports
that a new version of complex survey is in CVS. It should replace
the version of survey currently in head. Deds warns that it may
be flaky while he's working on it.
- Mailing-list:
There's a new version of mailing-list in openacs-5-1. It includes enhancements done by
Aristoi, enabling you to see a list of all subscribed users and mass
unsubscribe them again.
Discussion:
Malte started a
discussion
about overlaying
Corporate Identity
(skinning). Currently this involves tweaking multiple CSS
files, changing templates, and hunting for stuff that's
hard-coded. He suggests writing a proposal and looking for
funding in the context of improving usability for users with slow
modems, braille readers, PDAs, etc. Jade suggests increasing
XHTML/CSS compliance and an advanced tutorial on how to do it.
Malte
suggested
that we create dotLRN
sub-communities
within OpenACS.org to make the amount of information more
manageable and allow aggregation of content. The discussion led
to these summaries.
Frank Bergmann has some
ruminitions
on
workflow,, proposing a
more permissions-like (?) approach. He says the current workflow
is a
state
pattern. Jade comments that documention is needed.
Questions:
Andrew
Piskorski
reports
that forums postings take 10 minutes to show up on the front page of
openacs.org and wants to know if something has changed?
