OpenACS Developmental Forum Summary: 9/8 - 9/10/2004
(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.)
OpenACS Core
- Permissions: Don Baccus asserted that the permissions system was quite efficient, and said that in most cases it scales log2(N), with N being the number of objects. He said that the route to improving performance was reducing the number of global permissions (foo_read). He also pointed out that a lot of packages assign permissions without actually using them.
Packages
- Attribute Management System (AMS)
- Matthew Geddert is working on a new package called the Attribute Management System (AMS) that will let you tie in revision controlled attributes to any OpenACS object. He plans to put it in CVS by next week. The package will automatically generated ad_form forms. He says the package is complex, so it will need some documentation before it is useful.
- Contacts:
- Matthew Geddert expects to release a full number version of Contacts by the end of the month. Planned improvements: make it not a singleton, Outlook .csv and Yahoo .csv imports and exports and possibly vCard import and export. He discussed the possibility of integrating the contact application with the webmail package that Nima has developed.
- There is a long discussion on the use of group/composition/relationship segments in contacts, and whether contacts should be based on a party or any object. Should a contact be allowed to be linked to an event or other type of object, or only a person? They also discussed some UI issues and how to relate these packages and objects together.
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