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In response to: Feature request: Blog name in "all" view

This is a good idea. I don't know if the code that's rendering the posts actually knows that it's rendering in the context of an "All" view, though. If not, it might be pretty tricky to do this.

In response to: A bit of research and a task obviated

I've installed a plugin that provides this type of functionality.
The plugin is called AM Extra Comments and allows blog admins to assign role-based privilege to reading/adding comments.

In response to: New blog for Humanities Project Showcase

Could you give us a list of the categories you need, the logon ids and passwords for new users, a short title for the blog, a full title, and a longer description?

In response to: Much work preparing to update B2Evo (Martin and Greg)

I think it's risky to do it during office hours; doing something time-critical and mission-critical when the office is full of people who interrupt every five minutes is a possible recipe for disaster, but it's your choice. We'll do it some time next week. At the very least, we should find some way of limiting interruptions while it's happening.

In response to: Much work preparing to update B2Evo (Martin and Greg)

With my manager hat on, I would prefer not to have you work weekends and acrue CTO. Could we all agree to a downtime for the blog, say on a Thurs/Fri? Each could keep logs on file and port them later into the new blog version. So far, it is mainly staff using it. (In other words, downtime not inconvenient to outside folks.)

In response to: New blog on Moodle

I've been quite active on the Moodle forums recently, in relation to SCORM support in Hot Potatoes. I wonder if it makes sense to have a blog in our blog set for something which will be CASS's project, though? If we're not running the eventual deployment of Moodle, will our blog be their default discussion location for issues they work on, even after our involvement is over?

In response to: More on 1.9.2

It looks like the plugin does not get "installed" when you upgrade (see last post in that thread). It appears as though the issue is resolved by installing the plugin after upgrading. I'll keep an eye on this, but I don't think it should be a reason for not upgrading to 1.9.2.

In response to: Bugs and annoyances

With regard to the last point, I don't agree. It's only ambiguous if you're an American, and it's in everyone's interest to confuse Americans about this until they switch to a logical sequence. Only the Japanese use yy/mm/dd to my knowledge, so xx/xx/xx should always be interpreted as dd/mm/yy by anyone using a European language.

In response to: Online submission form and practices

Anyone should be able to submit a proposal through the Web form. The form can check for netlink id, and make sure all the boxes are filled in.

When it's submitted, an email should go to us and to the submitter, with the URL of a PHP page which would display the proposal as HTML. That URL can also be posted to our own admin blog as the basis for discussion. We don't have to circulate anything except a URL.

[Incidentally, proposals precede rather than proceed blogs. :-)]

In response to: COMPLETED TASK: Turn off AutoP by default

That's right. Anyone with posting privileges can be alerted to the need to turn on Auto-P if they don't know HTML, but since 95% of the posts will be from us, we should optimize the system for ourselves primarily.

In response to: COMPLETED TASK: Turn off AutoP by default

Ok by me. Some casual users posting one or two paragraphs will balk at having to use any xhtml tags, even if the tags are placed squarely in front of them. Likely they won't be using ul/ol, in which case being able to post text only (no tags) may determine whether they post at all. So, I gather from your post that individuals will still have the option to enable auto-p, even though the default will be set to "off".

In response to: Nov 17 just posting minutes worked

Hi folks,

If you want a system this complicated, I'm not the guy to write it:-)

If you want to post minutes for yourself, you could just post something that includes the minutes and says "see x's post for details". Anything more sophisticated is going to be more work than it's worth.

Cheers,
Martin

In response to: TASK: Create a decent "home" blog for the site to default to.

Done. When you go here:
http://tapor.uvic.ca/~hcmc/blogs/index.php
You should come to a "frontend" which is a blog called HCMC. Comments are turned off, and there are a handful of categories. Please start editing.

I've closed this task.