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§ ita § - Jan 23, 2003 11:24:03 pm PST #2907 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Done.

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Betsy HP - Jan 24, 2003 11:11:31 am PST #2908 of 10000
If I only had a brain...

There's an ugly in CVS.

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Karl - Jan 24, 2003 12:57:54 pm PST #2909 of 10000
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

Thanks, Betsy. I'm updating my copy of cvs (both server and client) as we speak.


§ ita § - Jan 24, 2003 1:25:32 pm PST #2910 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Karl, I'm going to roll in Jon's admin changes, and then I think we can get going for real -- how's this weekend for you?


Jon B. - Jan 24, 2003 1:29:47 pm PST #2911 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Karl, I'm going to roll in Jon's admin changes, and then I think we can get going for real -- how's this weekend for you?

Woo hoo! Have we worked out how the testing php/web server will be set up?


§ ita § - Jan 24, 2003 1:31:25 pm PST #2912 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Testing will have to go the same way it is now -- we need to work out a protocol for locking individual files down.

Also, for the admin page, I think I'm going to change the e-mail list to an e-mail search, since I think the usage is mostly going to be cut and paste from another source. I never actually read the e-mail addies, and doing so would slow me down.

Other admin opinions? We're talking about making the Maintain Users screen both less ugly and more useful.


Karl - Jan 24, 2003 1:36:43 pm PST #2913 of 10000
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

ita, this is the weekend of Further Confusion, a sci-fi/anthropomorphic con in San Jose, which various members of my household are deeply enmeshed in staffing. I may or may not go to the con, but they have an Internet Room there, and I can do needed CVS set-up remotely, if necessary.

So the short version is: Send me a list of people (with e-mail addresses) who need CVS access, and I'll see that they're live by Monday night, by hook or by crook.


Jon B. - Jan 24, 2003 1:38:03 pm PST #2914 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Did you know that, when you select a listbox, you can type in what you're looking for and it will pop down to the correct entry. You can just type in the first letter, or the first couple of letters, and it will jump to the first entry that starts with the same letter(s). Since the lists are in alphabetical order, it's the same as a search box but (IMO) more flexible.


Jon B. - Jan 24, 2003 1:56:37 pm PST #2915 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Quisp:

Thinking about it a little more, I really prefer the multiline listbox to a search box. If a situation arises where you can't cut and paste, and/or you get a letter wrong, it's a pain in the neck to find the user you want. I'd much rather have immediate access to a whole list of emails, that I can still search by quickly typing in the first few letters.


§ ita § - Jan 24, 2003 2:47:57 pm PST #2916 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Karl -- why don't you give me a yell when you're out of the con shadow, and we'll lock stuff down then.

You can just type in the first letter, or the first couple of letters, and it will jump to the first entry that starts with the same letter(s).

Depends on the browser. Some only let you scroll by first letter. IE 5.5 here only lets me do that, and it makes the username scroll box pretty tedious for me, but I'm never cutting and pasting there, so I have to put up with it.

The usability of the e-mail list box to me is about parallel to my doing straight SQL for the answer.

For e-mails, I'd rather at least both options, if people are going to still use the scroll. Though I must admit the volume considerations make me think that we should populate both the lists at once, with one instead of two times seven hundred plus hits.