[LON-CAPA-dev] Dev Meeting notes 11-22,11-29,12-6,12-13,12-20
Guy Albertelli II
lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:20:57 -0500 (EST)
12/20/2005
Meet Wed 11:45 next week.
Ed
Gerd
- new places added
- public access gets the correct language
- testing a 'partially correct check mark' for navmaps
A- add a minus to the check mark
Felicia
- some finals stuff
- usability class is done
A- capa 4 -> to the death!
Stuart
- DC can select a course again
- What's New unread posts
- modify the course request form to remember returning users
- includes course name in email
- what's new
- unread posts supress count for speed
- supression of screen perf on per course basis
- threshold moved to per user basis
- added ability for adv users to see what's new
- SSO meeting
A- CHECKRPMS unification
- rebuild SLES9 on s8
- machine downtimes upcoming
- BUG list walking
Rick
- 2 step process to assigning metadata to a course
A- review Guy's changes
Mark
- grant writing
A- grant writing
Guy
- 2.0.99.1 basically out there
- 2.1.0 on wednesday
- testing out things
- BT .0. adds
A- add alt text to status icons
- BT PGRD?
- BT NAV?
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12/13/2005
Felicia
- Getting teacher workshop/training things setup
- Beging work on Jan. 16th meeting
- mth112 -> doneish
- Finals tickets and stuff
- faculty seminars starting up
- sarah usability -> setting up one-on-one stuff
- starting up running through senarios
Rick
- better interface look and feel to course association stuff
A- add a 'de-associate'
- allow to associate to all courses
- get together with mark and goes throught things again
Ed
- thinking about future directions for lon-capa
Stuart
- migrating lonnotify -> primary domain server
- registration form for training (faculty seminars, THEDUMP meeting)
- ISP/B meeting -> randompick issues...
- Student photos acquisition will be easier
A- Summer conference -> registration form
- roles page DC select course not working
- whatsnew course by course pref
- looking at whatsnew and what's fast/slow
- deleted posts still 'unread'
- SLES9 -> s8
- if 2.0.99.1 -> new CampusSource tarball
Mark
- talk to rick about interface
- looking at ideas for next FIE
- chasing grant money
Guy
- 2.0.99.0 -> s12
A- BT -> extracting data (scores etc.)
- bug fixes
- poke around looking at things making sure they work
- 2.0.99.1
Gerd
- Paper -> American Journal of Physics
A- look into 2 new parameters (grading category and grading spreadsheet)
- RET supplement?
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12/6/2005
Guy
- grading queue for handgradable (no collision detection yet)
- tested authen/authz redo of loncapa_apache.conf
A- 2.0.99.0
- dcmail/dcroles
- revert back to header.gif
- jsMath 2.0
- BT -> need to extract data
- insertion of part 0 into internal data storage
Felicia
- winter Final exam
A- finals finals finals
- Course creation starting up
- training page updates, faculty seminars coming up
Gerd
- nsf NSDL intergration finished (needs to be explicitly picked)
- sort defaults to 'most used'
- resource search count off by 1
A- harvard stuff
- reconvert and publish
Stuart
- whatsnew - can pick which components show
- version changes added
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- lonnavmaps - understand version
- getByUrl can get multiple matching resources
A- what's new optional on a course by course basis
- add seminars to database
- CHECKRPMS -> bind them together into one
- dcmail / dcroles -> primary library server
- msu -> downtime on the 21st do all the updates.
- auto course creation -> add semester and course to title and emails
-> cross list is losing lon-capa section name
- reverse proxy
- buy list to Gerd
- SuSe
- KVM cables
- Rack mount hardware
- ethernet cables
- hard drive enclosures
Rick
- another bug to the course metadata restrictions
A- graded document return
Mark
- PT3 get together some people interested in resource sharing aspects
- followed up on rick's work
A- will take a look at rick's stuff again
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11/29/2005
Felicia
- winter final exam conversion
- planning a THEDUMP meeting
A- meeting with possibly a new writer from the center
Ed
- HS teachers with a student helper more effective at using lon-capa
Stuart
- Fowlerville is back alive - to be updated
- mail fixes
- sort mail by course
- course mail when replied to preserves course context
- critical and broadcast messages in sent folder include a meningful
subject
- attempting to eliminate some duplicated data with regards to the
broadcast messages
- about me page show both subject and body for all messages
A- whatsnew page
- speedups
- configurability
- follow up on the clicker brown bag
Rick
- bug fixes to course restriction portfolio
A- look at instructor return of corrected documents
Ron
- extra whitespace with <center> inside a <td>
- table nesting looked at
A- table nesting is at best okay try to improve
Guy
- added accessor for gradingqueue
- tested modifications to access/authen/authz phases
A- 2.0.99.0
- Shoot for the Monday the 19th for 2.1
Mark
- Paper was accepted to SITE
- check up on Rick
A- meeting with TE people
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11/22/2005
Felicia
- conversion conversion conversion (winter) (quite nearly done)
- usability sent to Sara(h)
- portfolio seminar (LCTTP)
A- conversion (winter)
Rick
- course metadata restrictions should be finished off
A- code cleanups
- handle the internal metadata (autorspace, lastmodifed etc)
Gerd
- NSDl search
- query done
- parse of result
- more RSS playing (blogs/announcements/podcast) (delayed till 2.2)
- name/nickname caching
A- NSDL search
- reformat so it looks like what we want
- filter lon-capa results
- BUG list
- buy a SLES 9 license
Stuart
- course groups
- simple page -> display group funtionality / group welcome page
- parameter group setting (first pass only picks the first group)
- changin it to cascade through groups
- lonroles -> working on getting recent roles DC pick of CC role
- CSE machine done
A- whatsnew cleanup / performance
- BUG list
- tell gerd what to buy
Mark
- collaborative exchange occurred (some interest expressed especially
resource sharing)
- met with TE about lon-capa
A- review things with Rick
Guy
- stuff
A- 2.0.99.0
- gradingqueue cleanup
- SPRS performance .. delay parameter
- BUGS galore
- stick data to version_2_1_X tag
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