Re: [Ids-devel] IDS Status

[Adam C. <do...@sh...>]

Hello,

With the multi-user stuff, I'd like to see the ability to make things
available to authenticated users that are not available to
non-authenticated users.  For example, If I sign in, I would like to see a
some personal albums, and the option to order via shutterfly, but if I am
an anonymouse user, I dont get the shutterfly button, and some albums are
not available.  This could also be extended to comments and other such
items.  And of course, configurable per user/group in the admin interface.
And of course it should have the option to be cookie based so you do not
need to sign in every time you re-boot.

My coding skills are not outstanding, but I'd certinaly be willing to give
it a go.

As for the shutterfly comment, I use it a great deal.  I post all my
images and then mail my family when they are available.  The people that
want something better than what their printer outputs orders the images
this way.

-Adam

ps, my IDS install is viewable at http://albums.shroom.com/


On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

  | Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:45:54 -0700
  | From: Ashley M. Kirchner <as...@pc...>
  | To: IDS Mailing List <ids...@li...>
  | Subject: [Ids-devel] IDS Status
  |
  |
  |     ...or lack thereof.
  |
  |     Hello folks, and a (belated) Merry Christmas to you all.  As many of
  | you noticed, I've been off the face of the planet for several months.
  |  With after finding out I needed surgery on my wrists/hands and all, it
  | became a serious matter for me not to stay around keyboards for very
  | long periods of time.  Well, I'm back.  Not full force, and certainly
  | not to start fending off everything thrown at me.  So, a few things are
  | in order here:
  |
  |     - IDS 0.8x Development has been put on hold since several months ago
  | (in fact, it's been frozen on my end).  I managed to help a few souls
  | out individually with the search problem (I forgot a \  (back slash)
  | somewhere in the code), but that was the extend of what I did.
  |     - IDS 2.x has also been put on hold and I'll be very surprised if I
  | can even pick up where I last left off.
  |     - A HUGE Thank You to everyone who managed to help others in my absence.
  |     - An even bigger Thank You goes out to Piet Barber for creating RPMs
  | for Red Hat 8.0, although I would like to see that back ported to Red
  | Hat 7.3 as well since that platform is still widely used.
  |
  |     A couple of things are on my plate right now, but I'd like to gather
  | up some volunteers:
  |
  |     - Source Forge CVS - read below though  [1]
  |     - Multi Platform porting (we can use SF's compile farm for that)
  |     - A redesign of the IDS web page, adding Piet's RPMs to the list of
  | files.  (Piet, if you send me your files, I can upload them to SF, or if
  | you'd like to volunteer, I will give you access to our site.)
  |     - Forward thinking / brainstorming of the current code
  |     - Forward thinking / brainstorming for the 2.x code (which was to be
  | built for mod_perl - however I'm leaving this open for debate)
  |     - A total rewrite is in order for v2.x anyway, so whether we use
  | mod_perl, or something else, this is the time to speak up.
  |     - Multi user (this is a finicky situation)  [2]
  |     - Modular coding: my idea here is to allow others to be able to
  | create additional modules for IDS (file formats, online services hooks -
  | such as ShutterFly)
  |     - Someone once sent me an email a long time ago, asking we we don't
  | create our own ordering system, for online delivery of copyrighted
  | materials.  This would imply creating something with an online account
  | transaction merchant (a credit card service).  So we could create
  | different modules to work with that, say one for PayPal, one for
  | Authorize.NET, VeriSign, etc., etc.  I don't want this to be part of the
  | mainstream program, but more of an addition.
  |     - An online card system (eCards)
  |     - There are so many ideas that I've received...I want to brainstorm.
  |
  |     Then there was today's question regarding ShutterFly - as far as I
  | know, no one is getting a kickback.  But that's also mainly because it
  | was never considered to be a real option.  I mean, how many of you
  | really use ShutterFly?
  |
  |     [1]  Regarding the CVS.  Seeing that I have the last release here,
  | and don't have many of the improvements/additions that many of you have
  | added over the course of the past months, I want to update my sources
  | first before uploading to CVS.  So, send in your patches please.
  |
  |     [2] Over the course of time I've heard several people have something
  | to say about multi-user capability.  For the most part, people like to
  | keep IDS the way it is, single user.  Retain it's "personal" touch.
  |  Then there are others who would love to be able to roll it out as a
  | multi-user application.  Again, this part breaks down into two sides:
  | those who wish to roll it out for an ISP environment (multiple users,
  | single logins for each site), and those who wish to have multiple logins
  | on one single instance of the application.  The latter leaves the door
  | open for one person to have multiple members log in to their site and
  | upload/change stuff, where the first one allows for several users to
  | have their own album site, all running off of one installation.
  |  Frankly, I want to see both capabilities rolled in, with a choice
  | during installation.  But, that's me.
  |
  |     Okay, I've said enough for right now.  Volunteers, please stand up
  | and be heard.
  |
  |