Re: [Filecaddy-developers] Survey and SF Permissions

[David J. K. <dke...@ko...>]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:08:58AM -0700, Matthew Bevan wrote:

>  - The website has been massively updated (well, I think so ;)

On my brief walkthrough it looks good :)

>     - FAQ is now up, mostly stolen from kopsisengineering.com's
>       FlashAdapter FAQ.  We need more items.

We need people asking questions :) In my experience "premptive FAQing"
doesn't usually work. If you *know* something is going to be a FAQ then it
probably needs improvement.

>  - Much thinking has been going on about the software.  The Plug-in
>    API has been worked upon.  Nothing major, and nothing worth a new
>    semi-public release of pre3.

One of these days I'll read through the plug-in stuff. However, I am curious
why the FAFileMover plug-in architecture was abandoned? Nothing about it was
incompatible with VFS - in fact I actually had a couple of unreleased VFS
based FAFileMover plug-ins working.

>  - The manual has been added to pre2 in HTML format, to make a few
>    people happy.  Designed for iSilo, and it shows.

Still on my todo list. I'd like to eventually produce a nice typeset PDF
manual like we have for the FlashAdapter software.

>  - Tried to add a survey to the SF page, but don't have permissions.  I 
>    don't have permissions to do much on the site, come to think of it.

You have as much access as I can give you without making you the project
admin. It seems to me that any developer should be able to add a survey but
apparently SF disagrees. If you email what you want the survey to contain
I'll be happy to set it up. However, SF's survey interface is just as bad as
the rest of their website so we'd probably be better off to set up something
custom using the website. There must be some good PHP scripts out there for
doing polls.

>  - I need help with this freaking scrollbar problem.  Grab the latest
>    CVS, build it, and install it.  Have a look at the "Release Notes" 
>    dialog. If it doesn't pop-up automatically, it's available in the 
>    Help menu.  Scroll, and the problem should become evident quickly.

I'll take a look tomorrow. I just agreed to fill a last minute part-time
faculty opening at a local technical college. My first class (Enterprise
Development) starts today so I have to teach myself MS SQL Server admin in
the next four hours :)

--
    Dave Kessler
    President - Kopsis, Inc.
    http://kopsisengineering.com