Forum OpenACS Forum Summaries: Q&A 2004-10-11
OpenACS Q&A Forum Summary: 10/11/2004
(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
Community
Discussion
- Rocael Hernandez informed people where to get the translate.openacs.org catalogs if they needed them.
- There is an active thread on daemontools vs. no daemontools in binary installs of OpenACS.
Looking for help (and not getting it)
- Jerome M is having some sort of DB connectivity issue.
- Martin Magerl wanted to know if Aolserver 4 is ready for prime time with SSL.
Looking for help (and getting it)
- Clara Schroeder wanted to know how to find the table contraints in Postgres
- Claudio Pasolini described how to use existing Postgres tables in OpenACS, and Nick Carroll pointed out you can use Laetitia's case tool to generate code from a UML diagram.
OpenACS Administration
- Jade Rubick released project manager 2.21 beta 1.
- Ben Koot wanted to know if there was a way to add a bunch of users at once, and approve them all in one swoop.
OpenACS Programming (should go in Dev Forum?)
- Torben Brosten asked how to use the context bar proc
- Mark Auuflick pointed out the right way to move the packages from /contrib/obsolete-packages back to the packages directory.
Developmental statistics
- 84 (-1) open patches (oldest patch: 5/22/2003, person responsible for this patch: Alfred Werner and Torben Brosten)
- 575 (+0) open bugs
- 148 (-1) resolved bugs
- 1403 (+1) closed bugs
- 12 (+0) open openacs.org bugs
Links
OpenACS Q&A Forum Summary: 10/14/2004
(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 translate.openacs.org server has been upgraded to OpenACS 5.1.2d4.
- The very cool Malte Sussdorff is working on the OpenACS.org website upgrade.
Community
Announcements
- Jade Rubick posted plans for project-manager 2.5
OpenACS Administration
- Continued discussion on Aolserver 4, SSL, and some tangents on using Pound instead of nsopenssl.
Discussion
- Alfred Werner said that the Tcl team is considering using a version in their binary installs that is compatible with OpenACS. He's also working on the roadmap for binary installations of OpenACS.
Looking for help (and not getting it)
- Torben Brosten is interested in localizing user-generated content, and asked the status of the TIP in which a particular solution was proposed.
- Koroush Iranpour's Oracle Installer is crashing, and he's not sure why.
Looking for help (and getting it)
- There is some discussion about the state of SOAP support in OpenACS.
- Chris Grant had problems getting auth-ldap working. He gets this error: Error: nsldap: could not open connection to server ldap://127.0.0.1:389 on port 389: connection refused.
OpenACS Programming (should go in Dev Forum?)
- Malte Sussdorff proposed making the child/parent relationships in the CR an n:m relationship instead of 1:1.
- Matthew Geddert wanted to know how to access different namespaces in Tcl.
- Rocael Hernandez had some feedback on Nima Mazloumi's new site map UI.
- Nick Caroll wanted to know how to commit new packages to CVS.
- Brian Fenton wants to know how to set the NLS_LANG environmental variable from within OpenACS.
- Simon wants to know how to use the -validate block for extending forms.
- Esti Alvarez posted a patch to internationalize lars-blogger.
Developmental statistics
- 85 (+1) open patches (oldest patch: 5/22/2003, person responsible for this patch: Alfred Werner and Torben Brosten)
- 578 (+3) open bugs (oldest bug: 11/12/2002, person responsible for this bug: Peter Marklund)
- 147 (-1) resolved bugs
- 1404 (-1) closed bugs
- 12 (+0) open openacs.org bugs
