[geeklog-devel] geeklog-devel Digest, Vol 39, Issue 49

[buddhika wijesinghe]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply to my e-mail regarding New calender plugin. I checked
out your source code.
Can i install a local copy of your source code to my computer?
After a walk through on your source code  i think i can understand your
requirement well.

Thank you
Buddhika.

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:56 PM,
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>   1. Re: New Calender Plugin (Vincent Furia)

>   2. Re: Google Summer of Code (Vincent Furia)

>   3. Re: GSoC 2010 idea - E-Commerce/Shopping Cart plugin

>      (Vincent Furia)

>   4. Re: Google Summer of Code (Dirk Haun)

>   5. Re: [contact-us]  Updated proposal for GSOC (Dirk Haun)

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> Message: 1

> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:56:35 -0400

> From: Vincent Furia <vfuria at gmail.com>

> Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] New Calender Plugin

> To: Geeklog Development <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>

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> Buddhika,

>

> Everything Vlad said is correct. However, I've become the focal for

> answering questions about the calendar plugin project. If you have specific

> questions or want to share information privately you can email me

> personally

> or email all the mentors at the Geeklog mentors only mailing list:

> contact-us at lists.geeklog.net.

>

> Thanks for your interest,

> Vinny

>

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Vlad Voicu <vladvoic at gmail.com> wrote:

>

> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:42 AM, buddhika wijesinghe

> > <buddhikawijesinghe at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Hi,

> > > I'm a student of Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

> > University

> > > of Moratuwa,Sri Lanka.

> > > I hope to work on your New Calender plugin project idea. I have some

> > > clarifications to solve regarding this project. How can i contact a

> > mentor.

> > > Thanks,

> > > Buddhika

> >

> >

> > Hi Buddhika,

> >

> > Currently, as far as I know, geeklog hasn't assigned a mentor for

> > everything, as the number of mentors is smaller than the number of

> > projects. So the mentors will be distributed after the review of the

> > proposals. I am sure that if you ask your questions here on the

> > dev-list, you will get your answers and maybe help others that try to

> > apply for this project (me included).

> >

> > Regards,

> > Vlad

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> Message: 2

> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:42:34 -0400

> From: Vincent Furia <vfuria at gmail.com>

> Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Google Summer of Code

> To: Geeklog Development <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>

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> There are two ways to get the "development version" of Geeklog. Either

> using

> anonymous access using Mercurial or else by downloading a nightly tarball.

> See: http://www.geeklog.net/staticpages/index.php/CVS

>

> -Vinny

>

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Matias Hernandez <msdark at archlinux.cl

> >wrote:

>

> > Great, is where I get the development version? "Using Mercurial?

> > I like the idea of testing in general some of the projects I've worked in

> > areas where I have got on are development and testing.

> >

> > 2010/3/30 Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de>

> >

> >

> >> Mat?as Hern?ndez Arellano wrote:

> >>

> >>  It would be interesting to start testing some things either open a bug

> >>> or have any idea that that is not part of the GSoC projects ..

> >>>

> >>

> >> Our bugtracker has 161 issues for your perusal :)

> >>

> >>  http://project.geeklog.net/tracking/view_all_bug_page.php

> >>

> >> Also, right now, we could use some help in general testing of the

> >> development version and of the new PostgreSQL support in particular

> since we

> >> want to release this version real soon now.

> >>

> >> bye, Dirk

> >>

> >>

> >>

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> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:47:07 -0400

> From: Vincent Furia <vfuria at gmail.com>

> Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] GSoC 2010 idea - E-Commerce/Shopping Cart

>        plugin

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> Ramindu,

>

> That is a great outline. I'd suggest (likely under the banner of security

> measures) considering how the e-commerce system can integrate with

> Geeklog's

> security model (e.g. groups, access rights, ownership, etc).

>

> Ideally, I'd like to see a plugable payment system. That way users can

> choose from several options or implement their own. Whether that is

> supported by VirtueMart, incorporated through another open source project,

> or coded by you should probably be included in your proposal.

>

> -Vinny

>

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Ramindu Deshapriya <rasade88 at gmail.com

> >wrote:

>

> > Hello,

> > VirtueMart contains separate modules for payment and shipping. It also

> > contains a host of features which make it more like a CMS within itself.

> :|

> > I was wondering what exactly should be the features that I should port

> over

> > to Geeklog? I was thinking on the lines of,

> >

> >    - Creation of sales item lists with descriptions, images etc

> >    - Online payment via payment gateways such as Paypal

> >    - Shopping cart functionality, adding items to the cart, removing,

> >    maintaining cart over a session

> >    - Database tables containing details of previous purchases

> >    - UI implementations such as AJAX-based pop-up item descriptions

> >    - Security measures - encryption etc

> >

> >

> > Anything else that should be added?

> >

> > I am in the process of writing the proposal, and need to include which

> > features I will be carrying over to the Geeklog plugin.

> >

> > Thanks!

> >

> >

> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de> wrote:

> >

> >> Vincent Furia wrote:

> >>

> >> >You can find what we're looking for in your application/proposal on

> >> >the Geeklog GSOC homepage here:

> >> >http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_org/google/gsoc2010/

> >> >geeklog/geeklog

> >>

> >> Which is the same page that you end up on when going via the list of

> >> accepted orgs:

> >>

> >>  http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/home/google/gsoc2010/geeklog

> >>

> >> But the URL is shorter :)

> >>

> >> bye, Dirk

> >>

> >>

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> >

> >

> > --

> > Yours Truly,

> > Ramindu Deshapriya.

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> Message: 4

> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:52:01 +0200

> From: "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de>

> Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Google Summer of Code

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> Matias Hernandez wrote:

>

> >Great, is where I get the development version? "Using Mercurial?

>

> Yes.

> <

> http://wiki.geeklog.net/index.php/Installing_from_the_Mercurial_Repository

> >

>

> bye, Dirk

>

>

> --

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> Message: 5

> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:21:17 +0200

> From: "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de>

> Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] [contact-us]  Updated proposal for GSOC

> To: geeklog-devel <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>

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> Abhishek Shrivastava wrote:

>

> >I understand you like students to make decisions

> >before proposals. even i would love to! But I don't know what channel

> should

> >I use... public irc or private emails.. ?

>

> For technical discussions, a public place would be better (geeklog-devel

> or IRC), so that others can chime in. So I'm redirecting this back to

> geeklog-devel.

>

>

> [regarding the Configuration GUI project]

> >1) For the AJAX search box, should the response from the server come as

> XML

> >or a JSON object...

>

> I have no clear opinion on this. JSON seems to more commonly used. PHP

> has native functions for JSON as of PHP 5.2 and for earlier versions,

> there's a PEAR package. So that shouldn't be a problem.

>

>

> >But then JSON are parsed using eval() function, which can create

> >trouble if the response contains malicious codes (well actually, it

> >shouldn't happen because the server is within user's control).

>

> Good point. I would assume there are best practices so that JSON

> requests aren't easily spoofed. That's something that should be

> mentioned in the proposal.

>

>

> >2) For the access-control features, should we fine-grain the permissions

> to

> >per-option basis or per-configuration-group basis will do ?

>

> In practise, permissions per fieldset are probably fine-grained enough.

> I can imagine that some of the fieldsets need to broken up and

> rearranged, though.

>

> >From a technical point of view, since the fieldsets and the actual

> options are all in the same table, you would end up with unused

> permission fields on every option, so you may as well go all the way. Is

> this something that could be implemented in two steps? Per fieldset in

> any case, per option if time permits?

>

>

> >3) Then there's another thing to be looked into.. whether we should create

> a

> >new table for storing permissions of user-groups over config-groups or can

> >we just add the config-groups as "features" to the already existing

> >features,featurecodes and access tables...

>

> Is there any real benefit in having a second table?

>

> bye, Dirk

>

>

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