[wplug-web] openacs production url

James O'Kane jo2y at midnightlinux.com
Mon Mar 3 16:09:02 EST 2003


On 3 Mar 2003, Mark Dalrymple wrote:

> > I'd like other people's opinions, but it seems a little awkward to me. I
> > can't exactly put my finger on why.
> 
> Are you thinking about the 'here's how to add new functionality to the
> site' being awkward, or the pageflow of stuff? I'm a lousy page
> designer, which might have somethign to do wi thti.

Yeah, I was talking about layout. The tables on the left seem to dominate 
my screen, and it seems odd to have a login box way down at the bottom.

> It'll create accounts.  I can turn that off for now since there's not much
> an account holder can do.  I think it'd be nice in the future to
> support users adding comments.  I'll go do that now.

I agree about user comments. I was wondering about the near term need for 
user accounts when there is a good chance we might need to reinit the 
production users after the amendments to the user related tables.


> >  Do we want to plan another planning/brainstorming 
> > session in person?
> 
> sure!  I'm planning on being at the installpest on saturday (I want to get
> OpenGL working on a PC).  I've got a gig saturday night tht I'll have to take
> off for.

I'll try and get there at a reasonable time, but for now we'll just play 
it by ear.
 
> > ie. how does the budding developer get up to speed with the project, and 
> > find their own little niche to work on?
> 
> Hmmm, not usre.  Making a local install and walking throug the 'notes'
> tutorial on openacs.org is a good place to start.


Were there notes or slides from the talk last fall?

-james





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