cupidcms-developer

[Cupidcms-developer] FASD project: Online survey launched

[<ben...@id...>]

Dear Open Source developer

I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate.
You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it.

With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development.


With many thanks for your participation,
Benno Luthiger


PS:
The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/.
We have set up the mailing list fa...@we... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list.

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Benno Luthiger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
8092 Zurich

Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch
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[Cupidcms-developer] Project help needed

[Philippe C. <ar...@ru...>]

Hi,

This would be my first participation in an Open Source Project. I have over=
 a year and a half of experience in Perl programming. I'm currently a Unix =
sysadmin, working on Solaris, Oracle, Apache, MySQL, etc...

I've downloaded the source code via CVS and installed it on my system, and =
I would be glad to join your project. Don't hesitate to ask me if you need =
further informations.

Regards,

Phil

[Cupidcms-developer] RE: Perl coders

[Christopher . <w3...@ho...>]

>From: "Seong Bae" <cla...@ho...>
>
>Hello Chris,
>
>I've downloaded the cupidcms via cvs and put it on my test server.  Few 
>questions though.  Where do we stand in terms of finishing the project?

  So far, a lot of the base work has been started, like support for 
persistent sessions, user logins, access control lists, and dynamic page 
content.  These things might need refined.

  There are a few features that I'd like to add, like persistent sessions 
without using cookies, and HTML filtering.

  The current stage of development is that we have an almost complete 'base' 
to build a website with.  Personally, I'd like to build a match-making site, 
targetted for colleges and universities.  However, once the base is 
complete, other people could use it for whatever they want.

  So, to answer your question, the 'base' of the project is near completion. 
  The 'rest' of the project (a match-making site), is just beginning.

>  How do I install this?  Is it working version?

  As it stands, the codebase isn't really user-friendly when it comes to 
installing and configuring it.  The 'database' directory has some SQL 
queries to create a MySQL database.  The database/tables has the SQL to 
create the tables, and the database/data directory contains the data.  You 
can install the database by running the following commands from the 
'database' directory:

mysql -uroot -p < create_cupid.sql
mysql -ucupid -pcupid cupid < tables/*.sql
mysql -ucupid -pcupid cupid < data/*.sql

  Hopefully, you won't get any errors when you do this.  If you do, and you 
can't figure them out.  Let me know - I'll give you a hand.

  Once the database is installed, you should edit the httpd.conf file to 
your server.  Also, there is a line in the startup.pl file that needs 
changing. The 'use lib qw(/path/to/cupidcms/lib);' needs to be adjusted to 
your install directory's lib directory.

>I am just eager to test it out.  If you have working version up on your 
>server, please let me know.

  Try http://cupidcms.artisticfreedom.org/

  It's pretty bare right now.  If you log in as super/super, you should be 
able to wreak havok with what little of the site exists. :P

>  Also, give me brief summary of what is going on and what needs to be 
>done.
>Thanks :)

  Right now, I'd like to make the base code work with both mod_perl versions 
(1.x and 2.0).  This started out as an experiment of mine with Apache2 and 
mod_perl2.  However, we should be able to garner more interest and support 
in the project if we make it compatible with a stable version of mod_perl.  
I'd still like it to work with mod_perl 2.0, though.

  When that is done, there are a few more features I'd like to complete in 
the base, like HTML filtering and cookie-less sessions.  There may be 
features that you (or others) may want to add as well.

  There also needs to be some site design with regards to content and the 
database.  If this is going to be a match-making site, we'll need to add 
some content/features that cater to people that would use the site, like 
user profiles, people searches, match-making 'algorithms', 
advertising/classified space, etc.

  Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Chris Wedman

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[Cupidcms-developer] Configuration for mod_perl versions 1 and 2; other stuff

[Christopher . <w3...@ho...>]

Hey all,

  Currently, I am changing the Perl handlers and startup scripts to support 
mod_perl version 1, as well as mod_perl 2.  From there, we'll have to catch 
a few areas of code that will need some adjustments to support both 
versions.

  Other than that, please browse the rest of the code to orient yourself 
with it.  As it is, the code works with mod_perl2 and Apache2, but I don't 
think it will be too much work to make the code usable by both versions of 
mod_perl.  Once that is taken care of, it shouldn't be co much of a concern 
over which mod_perl version that is being used; We can then concentrate on 
more exiting things!

  A few more things that I'd like to implement are filtering of anchor tags 
(for redirects, external links, etc.).  This will help facilitate another 
feature that I'd like: cookie-sessions.  There may be comments throughout 
the code with other ideas.

  If you have any questions and suggestions about the current code base, 
feel free to send them to me.  I'll try my best to explain it to the group 
and even add comments to the section in question.  If you feel that a 
section of code is crap and should be rewritten. :P, then please, cooperate 
with the other developers to reimplement the section in question with 
minimal disruption to other development.

Sincerely,
Chris Wedman

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