Forum OpenACS Forum Summaries: Dev 2004/09/17 - 09/20

OpenACS Developmental Forum Summary: 9/17 - 9/20/2004

(Note: Dev Forum summaries are made on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays. Comments on editorial style welcomed.  If you really want everything, read the whole forum yourself.)

Package development

• acs-mail-lite
  • Roberto Mello proposes changing some error log messages to Debug level, and moving a parameter from notifications to acs-mail-lite to indicate whether or not to scan a Qmail queue for incoming email.
• e-commerce
  • Steve Manning said that James Thorton might be working on an e-commerce rewrite which stores products in the content repository (CR).

Looking for help (and not getting it)

Nancy Yang is getting a segmentation fault and service restart when making XML-RPC calls to the XML-RPC and ns_pam package.

Janine Sisk's custom 404 page no longer is wrapped in the master template on ACS 4.2.

Looking for help (and getting it)

• Matthew Taylor had two threads (#1 and #2) on how to iterate through a db_multirow. Rocael Hernandez referred to the documentation and gave an example.
• Miguel or Anny Flores described an errata for upgrading from OpenACS 4.6.3 to OpenACS 5.0.0 on Oracle 8.1.6.

Developmental statistics

• 86 (-1) open patches
• 562 (+1) open bugs
• 154 (+1) resolved bugs
• 1389 closed bugs
• 12 open openacs.org bugs