Forum OpenACS Development: OpenACS 5.9 and ]project-open[

We (the ]po[ core team) are preparing the release of ]project-open[ V5.0 for the next few months. In this release we would like to move to OpenACS 5.8 or 5.9 for PG 9.x compatibility. There are several issues and points at the moment.

- Including ]project-open[ as an "OpenACS Installable Package":
Gustaf asked us some month ago if that's feasible. I like the idea, and we've already worked through half the upgrade scripts of ]po[ "core" and integrated them into the <package>-create.sql scripts. My question now: Would the OpenACS core team want to include the ]po[ packages in the installable package list? How does this work in practical terms? Can you provide use with access to some place where we can upload the packages? We've got nearly 150 packages, maybe there is a bulk upload option?

- Patches to OpenACS:
We had to perform some 3-5 (don't remember exactly anymore) minor patches to OpenACS in the past because of errors. Including ]po[ as an "OpenACS Installable Package" won't work if we don't find a solution for this. Is there still a chance to get these changes in OpenACS 5.9? Or in the next updated version? The problem is that we'd need to test with OpenACS 5.9 to check if these issues persist.

- Upgrading from OpenACS 5.7 to 5.9:
We're trying at the moment, but there seem to be errors. I can't judge whether they are important or not. Did you test the upgrade from 5.7 already?

- AMS required iin OpenACS 5.9?
/packages/acs-content-repository/sql/postgresql/upgrade/upgrade-5.9.0d3-5.9.0d4.sql says that some function needs ams_object_revisions. I guess there is a missing dependency. But is AMS really a precondition for the CR?

If we don't get this sorted out we'll probably have to release the current release state as ]po[ 4.1 still with PG 8.4 and OpenACs 5.7...

Concerning the main functionality in ]po[ V5.0: We'll include a "Gantt Editor" similar to Microsoft Project etc. written in Sencha ExtJS (HTML5 JavaScript) and a few other Sencha functionality. Checkout http://po41demo.project-open.net/ -> Ben Bigboss -> "Special Machine (2012-16-03)" for example.

Cheers,
Frank

projop=# create or replace view cc_users as
projop-# select o.*, pa.*, pe.*, u.*, mr.member_state, mr.rel_id
projop-# from acs_objects o, parties pa, persons pe, users u, group_member_map m, membership_rels mr
projop-# where o.object_id = pa.party_id
projop-# and pa.party_id = pe.person_id
projop-# and pe.person_id = u.user_id
projop-# and u.user_id = m.member_id
projop-# and m.group_id = acs__magic_object_id('registered_users')
projop-# and m.rel_id = mr.rel_id
projop-# and m.container_id = m.group_id
projop-# and m.rel_type = 'membership_rel';
ERROR: column "title" specified more than once

- Patches: Ok, we're on the oacs-5-9 branch anyway, so I understand that we'll get your PUT and DELETE patches in ad_register_proc?

- ITU Code: I needed to install this package as a dependency. I don't remember exactly which package, I believe AMS... Glad to remove the package 😊

- page-error.tcl: The variables in page-error are one subject, we can deal with this. However, we need a customized version of page-error in order to deal with our ]po[ error reporting system. => Could you create a parameter similar to LoginTemplate, so that we can use a different page-error.tcl without having to customize OpenACS?

Btw., I've got ]po[ now running with OpenACS 5.9. We're going to do some testing and probably come up with some more issues.

Cheers,
Frank

]po[ uses a number of additional templates for forms and lists in specific contexts, so there is little alternative to using special templates in acs-templating.

In order to avoid customizing here we'd need to be able to set a different directory for templating resources. Any idea on how to do this?

Cheers,
Frank

just wanted to have a glance on the openacs-bootstrap3-theme.
Is it possible that it hasn't been made available yet in CVS?

> cvs server: cannot find module `openacs-bootstrap3-theme' - ignored

Thanks for looking into this.

Cheers
Klaus