Forum OpenACS Forum Summaries: Q&A 2004-10-08

OpenACS Q&A Forum Summary: 10/8/2004

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

Website

• The http://translate.openacs.org server was moved to another server. (also this thread).

Community

• Alfred Werner agreed to organize the effort to make OpenACS easier to install.

Discussion

• Mark Aufflick posted lecture notes on setting up a developmental environment.

Looking for help (and not getting it)

• Seshu S was having difficulty with site-wide-search because it requires acs-content, which is actually a deprecated package, and not to be installed on OpenACS 5.
• Miko already has Postgres with data in it and wanted to set it up to also use OpenACS, but wasn't quite sure how to do so.

Looking for help (and getting it)

• Himanshu Pagey wanted help moving OpenACS to another server.
• Anny Flores was compiling the nspostgres driver incorrectly.

OpenACS Administration

• Kenneth Wyrick and Jonatan Tierno talked about the Knoppix OpenACS CD and where to get it.
• Jade Rubick released an old package postcard package, which he had renovated to OpenACS 5.1. It allows you to send virtual postcards to people. Rocael asked him to move it in CVS to make it available via the package repository.
• Randy O'Meara asked if there was a way to put the database in read-only mode. This would be useful for migrating databases, and many other occasions. Roc had an idea for how it could work.
• Brian Cawthon had some follow up notes on getting OpenACS to install on FreeBSD. Aldert Nooitgedagt replied with some more comments.

OpenACS Programming (should go in Dev Forum?)

• Malte Sussdorff and Dave Bauer replied to an earlier thread on inheriting permissions from an object that is not that object's parent.

Developmental statistics

• 85 (-2) open patches (oldest patch: 5/9/2003, person responsible for this patch: Oscar Bonilla)
• 575 (+3) open bugs
• 149 (+0) resolved bugs
• 1402 (+0) closed bugs
• 12 (+0) open openacs.org bugs

Links

• OpenACS packages and maintainers