Online System for Commentary and Response
Reported Issues with Oscar (An Tir) (Last update 10 Oct 07)
Broken things
These are the things that don't work at all, give errors, etc. In other words, bugs!
- Alphabetizing seems to be backwards in some circumstances.
- Manual renumbering of items on an IL does not work.
- If you go to the Read ILs page and click on a Letter to read, you get this error: "Error converting subtype to text | select nam from subtypes where id= | DB Error: syntax error". Follow-up info: this only happens when reading Blue Anchor's LoC, or All LoC (because it includes Blue Anchor). Follow-up to follow-up: I think it's because it's trying to show a comment on an IL that has been deleted. Fixed by making the offending comment public="0" in the database.
- On the Read ILs page, the "Last Comment" column doesn't seem to work. And the Date Finalized column has something weird in it. Fixed by Hugo.
- Istvan reports: "The links in the notification emails for new
LoIs don't work." Aine adds that they point to http://antirheralds.org/index.php instead of http://antirheralds.org/oscar/index.php. Fixed by Hugo.
- Images added to comments don't work. Fixed by Hugo.
Things that should be improved/added
These are things that may work, but need to be customized for An Tir, or are spelled wrong, or look funny, or people have trouble figuring out how to use them well, etc. Some of these will be cosmetic fixes but others will be functional.
- E-mails are sending raw code which is ugly and hard to read.
- "Display Comments" is off for new users by default. It should be on.
- User request: Add "Release of Name" to the options in the submit page.
- User request: Show each submitter's branch.
- User request: Add more white space between submissions in an IL. Done.
- User request: make it look less like oscar.sca.org Done by adding checky bar to page edge, populace badge to header.
- HR tags on IL pages (and elsewhere) need to be removed and replaced with shiny new CSS borders. Done in most places. Still a couple left to fix. -- Blue Anchor
- Many terminology changes need to be made since this is Kingdom-level not Laurel level. We'll list them here:
- Instead of LoI, shouldn't it say IL? I have done some of this. There are probably lots of places where it still says LoI, but the most obvious ones are changed. If you see LoI anywhere, it means IL. :) -- Blue Anchor
- Status list needs to have the times changed. Currently it is hard-coded to include the Laurel commenting periods. This is at least partially fixed -- Blue Anchor
- E-mail subject lines need to say this is An Tir's OSCAR -- otherwise too easy to confuse with mail from the other OSCAR. Fixed -- now it says [AnTir-OSCAR]. -- Blue Anchor
- More to come...
Istvan's Issues List, 11/06
Below is Istvan's old Issues list from 11/06. I have not changed this list and don't know if it is still all true or not. -- Blue Anchor
Bugs reported
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ž is not working in the Da'ud translation code
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When a letter is issued, and somebody goes in and edits the submissions, the pair list should be created from all items on that LoI.
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Counts and costs are wrong.
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Add 'release of branch name'
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Exclude proto-lois from searches
Feature Requests from users
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'Comment' interface: allow showing of only things that I have _not_ commented on
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'Comment' interface: allow showing of things that I have commented on that have comments after mine.
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Letters of Correction, etc
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End date for LoC, automatically set if empty
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Search on commentary
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Fold Roster into Users (what to do about people on the roster who have no accounts. What happens when they join the list? - answer - Roster information is part of preferences. Do a check when you log somebody in, and say "Hey, you need to enter your roster information")
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Last edit date on comments
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Comments which have changed since my last login.
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Tracking chart and LoARs
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Preference: show me only submissions with authenticity requests.
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Comment on the entire LoI
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Ability to review LoI befor finalizing
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Add the kingdom to the sub status page
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"Desires Spelling"
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Search results should list if things are still being commented on
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Kingdom Proofreaders
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jump links on the status page
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I18N character issue -- might just be old submissions
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Include links to the submission in the Sub Herald notifies
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Allow URLs instead of image uploads
Solved
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Sanbdbox/paths now computed from URL/host information
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{E'}tain was showing up in the comment interface under "A" (was looking at filing_name, not alphaname, for the restriction)
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Commenting does not return you to the instant submission in the 'read loi' interface after you've commented.
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There is an error message generated for any submission that does not include a black and white or color image. Text: 'is not an uploaded file'.
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LoIs do not automatically roll off the commenting page at the end of the proper month (TESTING)
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When you're entering submissions, and you press go, the next screen is filled in with a lot of stuff from the previous submission. Only a few items should get copied.
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LoC page -- select "2006-09" and "Rowel". Press "show LoC". No data
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Mail gets sent to people with locked accounts!
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Roster database / Roster Changes
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Title used needs to be part of the comment.
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People should be able to entirely turn off comments
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Check on XML_IDs in names with quotes in the first part of the name
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XML IDs should be built from the kingdom of the LoI, not the kingdom of the person who triggers the rebuilding of the XML IDs.
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Moderated comments shouldn't be mailed out when made, but when approved!
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When someone posts a comment which needs to be validated, everyone with validation privs should be notified. The commentary shouldn't get mailed out until AFTER it's validated.
Last modified: 1 November 2006