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Dennis Landi
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 Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:59 pm Post subject: New Polling and File Upload mechanism. |
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Unfortunately, SourceForge (AFAICS) doesn't have a polling mechanism. Plus,
I don't see SF as a file upload repository for the general community (that
would be untenable), but I see the current use of borland.public.attachments
as unsatisfactory as well.
So I've created a Yahoo! Group that will host Polls with no problem, so we
can do all of our polling in an orderly fashion.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fastcodeproject/
Plus, here is where we can upload project files and actually create file
directories (on-line) so that we can organize the uploads into their
discrete challenges.
Also, the yahoo group obviously has a message forum; but more importantly it
has an email list capability that we may want to activate in some meaninful
way in to future. For instance, the could be a FastCode project manager
forum.... or whatever...
I will add this link to the new web portal page... soon.
-d
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Jeremy Darling
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: New Polling and File Upload mechanism. |
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Dennis,
Since SF allows for PHP files to be executed you could easly take any of
the open-source freeware polling engines and place it directly into the
site. Thus you would have a one stop shop w/o having to force users to
signup for an account that they may or may not already have  .
Jeremy
"Dennis Landi" <dennis [at] dennislandi [dot] com> wrote
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Unfortunately, SourceForge (AFAICS) doesn't have a polling mechanism.
Plus,
I don't see SF as a file upload repository for the general community (that
would be untenable), but I see the current use of
borland.public.attachments
as unsatisfactory as well.
So I've created a Yahoo! Group that will host Polls with no problem, so we
can do all of our polling in an orderly fashion.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fastcodeproject/
Plus, here is where we can upload project files and actually create file
directories (on-line) so that we can organize the uploads into their
discrete challenges.
Also, the yahoo group obviously has a message forum; but more importantly
it
has an email list capability that we may want to activate in some
meaninful
way in to future. For instance, the could be a FastCode project manager
forum.... or whatever...
I will add this link to the new web portal page... soon.
-d
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Dennis Landi
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:08 pm Post subject: Re: New Polling and File Upload mechanism. |
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"Jeremy Darling" <jdarling (AT) eonclash (DOT) com> wrote
| Quote: | Dennis,
Since SF allows for PHP files to be executed you could easly take any of
the open-source freeware polling engines and place it directly into the
site. Thus you would have a one stop shop w/o having to force users to
signup for an account that they may or may not already have .
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That's good to know and if Polling was the only service provided by the
Yahoo! groups that we need then I would ask *you* to volunteer to put a
functional PHP program in place to do the polling......
By we still need a "triage" center of sorts for file uploads, so I am sure
we don't lose track of things until I have time to get them into their
proper place.. And the are other services as well.
As for needing a Yahoo! ID. I don't see the big deal. Its free and takes
two seconds to sign up.
-d
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Eric Grange
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:16 pm Post subject: Re: New Polling and File Upload mechanism. |
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| Quote: | Unfortunately, SourceForge (AFAICS) doesn't have a polling mechanism.
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Simplest solution would be to upload a ready-to-use solution (f.i. phpBB
if you wants polls + discussion associated to poll)
| Quote: | So I've created a Yahoo! Group that will host Polls with no problem, so we
can do all of our polling in an orderly fashion.
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I'm not too hot on Yahoo! groups, had one an era ago for GLScene, and
there were all kinds of service issues, dunno if they sorted them out
since, haven't ever again been on Yahoo! since those days.
| Quote: | Plus, here is where we can upload project files and actually create file
directories (on-line) so that we can organize the uploads into their
discrete challenges.
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The problem here may be that the file upload is more intended as a
sharing directory, rather than a code repository, which means that yes,
it's easier to do things intially, but also that maintaining a clean
status, with proper versionning, isn't enforced in any way by the interface.
| Quote: | it has an email list capability
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http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=88789
Also comes with built-in spam filtering.
However, I'm not really sure the visibility Yahoo Groups or some other
website (SF or not) would have, better keep voting & discussion
together, and for discussion, threaded NNTP groups are much preferable
for that IME... (especially when you on-again off-again, gives you a
better chance to get back into a discussion).
Eric
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Dennis Landi
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject: Re: New Polling and File Upload mechanism. |
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Eric,
As for file uploads I don't intend to replace SourceForge, but the
borland.attachments....
The SF repository is the source code repository. As I put in my original
message the yahoo group is to allow an orderly, organized spot to upload
files with no fear of the them disappearing as a replacement for borland
attachments.
I see the SF repository as a heavy duty download portal for lots of files
that will stay on the site for a relatively long time.
I see the Yahoo site, as a "triage" management mechanism, to upload files,
vote, carry on moderator discussions etc. and I think the SourceForge
mechanism was not intended for that.
I don't know PHP at all. And the yahoo group has one that's ready to go. I
have no way to evaluate how much PhPBB will require additional development
work on my end.
A bonus: We can use the group forum as moderators discussion group which I
think will be really valuable.
I am just going to implement my plans as described because it makes managing
the upload and creation of website content an organized and efficient
process *for* *me* and therefore sustainable over time. Sinice I am the one
doing the work, this is the way I choose to do it.
To recap:
The yahoo group gives us polling, a moderators (fastcode managers) forum,
centralized and organized file upload location. And much more.
So I see having a front door portal at www.fastcodeproject.org that points
to
a) this newsgroup, for general discussion.
b) the FastCode challenge site: http://fastcode.sourceforge.net/ to
track the challenges.
c) FastCode source code repository:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fastcode
d) Pierre's FastMM source code repository:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fastmm
e) The FastCodeProject on the Yahoo! groups to faciliate various
administrative activities (file uploads, polling, moderator discussions)
If you don't want to use the availaibe polling mechanism, then you will have
to conduct your own polls any way you see fit, and just let me know the
result. But the yahoo groups is the mechanism I am providing to get file
upload in and organized and orderly fashion.
-d
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