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

Wed Mar 31 08:38:19 EDT 2010

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>
> Message-ID: <20100330182117.1431230863 at smtp.haun-online.de>
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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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