[Fwd: Re: [Self-platform-dev] SELF dev status]

[Wouter Tebbens]

Nagarjuna,
Let me forward your reply to the list, I suppose it should go there.

ad. point 2 and 5: Apart from documenting the issues Matías had to fix 
manually, don't you think we need to solve them in the install script, 
in order for a smooth installation?

Matías, could you please provide some additional info on 3 and 4?

best,

Wouter

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Self-platform-dev] SELF dev status
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 21:29:56 +0530
From: Nagarjuna G. <address@hidden>
To: Wouter Tebbens <address@hidden>
References: <address@hidden>

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Wouter Tebbens <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>  as from Matías' questions and reporting I'd like to ask your attention
>  for the following issues.
>
>  1. Matías has been updating and reinstalling the latest version (CVS) of
>  the platform. Following the instructions he could install most elements
>  correctly, although he found some hardcoded paths.
>  Note: /var/lib/zope2.9/instance/plone-site/xxx: 9 in the install.py, 7
>  in addData.py

pointed noted.  we will replace it with variable name there.

>  2. the course categories were not created. Only after finding out that
>  there is this external method picklecoursecat invoked from ZMI, he had
>  the course categories created.

yes.  the install script does not include at this moment all the steps
that prepares the site.
we will add in the documentation this extra step.  I do think, that
will be few more such steps that have not yet gone into the
documentation.  For example,  we are using tinymca editor, and we made
some changes for placing images from the kb into the editor.  this
changed vesion of tinymca is not part of the cvs.  this also needs to
be documented.
some more additional steps may have also been missed.

>  3. then he could navigate through the web interface, but couldn't add
>  content yet. He had to fix some issues in the method of gbrelations.

which fix was it?

>  4. However he still had some problems there when the function tried to
>  set relations between subjects.

which problems?

>  5. Strange enough the CSELFISH (testing) instance did not have those
>  same issues. It seems that the testing instance is not directly copied
>  from CVS from Savannah. This shouldn't be the case: the last update of
>  the code should always be on the CVS. And CSELFISH should reflect the
>  CVS code. This is a very serious issue: if other developers want to
>  check out the latest code, it should be on the CVS, that's the only
>  efficient way it can work. So instead of bugfixing the Testing instance,
>  we should improve the code on the cvs and install that on the testing
>  instance, test and repeat until it works properly.

cvs includes only the selfApp archetype.  secondly, as I mentioned
earlier, autoinstallation script is not performing all the things that
are required as of now.   the selfApp on cselfish and cvs, as per the
info from Rajiv, are uptodate.  last update was made about a day ago,
and also few hours ago today.

>  6. Matías also added a bug to the tracker at savannah, as he couldn't
>  edit any content (after registering at cselfish). Something that has
>  happened to me and others also. See the bug here:
>  https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?22481

this bug is fixed yesterday and Rajiv notified to Matias.  I could not
close the bug yesterday.

Nagarjuna