Re: [ids-devel@deadtrout.com] Re: [Ids-devel] IDS Status

[Terry E. <te...@ap...>]

I took a run at this and it turned out to be a major headache.  Then again,
my perl sucks these days.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Crews" <do...@sh...>
To: "Ashley M. Kirchner" <as...@pc...>
Cc: "IDS Mailing List" <ids...@li...>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 2:09 PM
Subject: [ids...@de...] Re: [Ids-devel] IDS Status


> 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.
>   |
>   |
>
>
>
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