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Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


Buffistas Building a Better Board ++

Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


Jon B. - Jun 21, 2007 9:14:16 am PDT #1329 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Only if there's a bugtracker under something other than b.org. B.org is blocked for me at work. The css domain is not.


§ ita § - Jun 21, 2007 9:17:12 am PDT #1330 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Aha.

No.

I'll try to remember to port the fix (hell, and finish the fix) this weekend. Programming neurons are missing.


§ ita § - Jun 28, 2007 11:55:39 am PDT #1331 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jon--for the functionality to automate voting, what do we need?

Poll:

  • creator (1)
  • start date (0,1)
  • end date (0,1)
  • title (1)
  • explication (1)
  • questions (>=1)

Question:

  • sequence # (1)
  • text (1)
  • options (>1)

Option:

  • sequence (1)
  • text (1)

Does that cover it? And the basic assumption being that the poll is open between start and end (or from now until end if no start is specified). People get one vote (have people needed to change their answers?) per question, and poll results are only visible to the poll owner (& admins?) before the end date and time, and visible to everyone after that.

Am I missing anything much?


Jon B. - Jun 28, 2007 5:28:55 pm PDT #1332 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

That looks pretty exhaustive. Maybe to the poll table, add a link to the post at which the lightbulbs discussion starts?

Who is the "poll owner"? Were you thinking the person who made the proposal? If so, I don't think they should have access to the results before the end date. They don't have access to that information now. Maybe simply make it an admin thing and leave out the creator altogether?

I don't know if people have had to change their votes in the past, but I think it's a good idea to work that functionality into the code.


§ ita § - Jun 28, 2007 7:05:45 pm PDT #1333 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Admin only poll creation? Yeah, that could work. And adding the link.

As for vote changing--as long as you only get the one vote per question, I don't see the harm.


Liese S. - Jun 28, 2007 7:31:43 pm PDT #1334 of 4673
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, I think in the few instances where someone needed to, they emailed the vote counter in the past. So it's good to have the capability.


§ ita § - Jun 29, 2007 9:37:39 am PDT #1335 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jon, you should be able to close threads now. Holler if you still can't.


Jon B. - Jun 29, 2007 10:17:55 am PDT #1336 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

It seems to be working. Thx.


§ ita § - Jul 02, 2007 11:02:14 am PDT #1337 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've (hopefully) closed two of the bugs now--fixed the thread creation, and fixed it so that you can assign a folder on thread creation.

Well, they're fixed on .org. Now I have to port those fixes to css.net.


§ ita § - Jul 02, 2007 11:11:42 am PDT #1338 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jon, where were we with the changes to the CSS site? I'm not at my email and I don't remember if there was something I was supposed to be doing.

I kinda want to switch over.