mamook-announce Mailing List for Mamook

This announcement contains three parts:
1. Mamook-2.0RC4 release
2. Nightly snapshots
3. Developer's To-do List

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1. Mamook-2.0RC4 release
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Release Candidate 4 is now available.  This version includes a few bug 
fixes, some small enhancements, and one database change.  If you are 
using Mamook-2.0RC3, it is not essential to upgrade to Mamook-2.0RC4, 
but you will need to make the transition once Mamook-2.0 is released. 
Mamook-2.0RC4 contains some installation fixes, so if you had difficulty 
installing Mamook-2.0RC3, the problems are hopefully resolved in this 
version. Release candidate 4 is not for production purposes as we are 
still ironing out a few bugs.  Use this version to help configure your 
server and plan for the upcoming 2.0 release. Please help us test this 
release candidate and report any bugs that you find. For more 
information, visit http://www.mamook.net

Changes from Mamook-2.0RC3:
Code changes:
- fixed run time warning in the plugins/plugin_control.inc.php's 
getHooks(). PHP didn't like how one of the parameters were being called 
by reference,
- fixed bug in student advanced search results where null convocation 
dates were showing up as December (tracker #1263569),
- fixed bug in all of the advanced search results that had export to 
file capabilities. If you clicked on export to file or export mail 
labels, the radio buttons used to select an individual 
student/contact/etc would bring up an export to file or export mail 
label file instead, (tracker #1263573),
- fixed bug preventing students from being added into multiple 
departments in student_info/add/add_student.inc,
- fixed bug where mcrypt fails when PACK_SECRET_KEY is empty (tracker 
#1252258),
- fixed bug where errors appear if plugin directory is non-existant or 
empty (tracker #1252260),
- fixed bug where the special instructions were being displayed 
incorrectly to employers when they were viewing the job due to broken 
HTML (tracker #1262536),
- fixed bug where an object in interview was not being unserialized 
properly (tracker #1247004). The object wasn't being serialized with our 
new packObject() function,
- fixed bug in job description where work term length would sometimes be 
displayed incorrectly as "Other - See start and end dates",
- added enhancement where the division is now displayed (in addition to 
the company) on the list of jobs on the Job Applications listing page,
- added a box displaying recent contact actions to job description pages 
for office and traffic directors,
- added the ability for office/traffic director to leave notes to 
students about the status of a job,
- moved isValidEmail and isValidAddress function definitions out of the 
contact and job description module into misc/functions.inc. These 
functions were redundantly declared,
- moved job_description/add_job/job_functions.inc's functions into 
misc/functions.inc.

Database changes:
- added new field 'for_student_comments' to job_info table for new 
feature where staff can leave notes to applicants about the status of a job.

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2. Nightly snapshots
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If you want to get a sneak peek at new Mamook features, or are wanting 
to help our team test and develop Mamook, you can now download a nightly 
snapshot of our code. For more information, go to: 
http://www.mamook.net/mediawiki/index.php/Documentation:Downloading#Downloading_the_Nightly_Snapshot.

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3. Developer's To-do List
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Have you been looking for a way to contribute to the Mamook project? A 
list of projects you can help us with is now available 
(http://www.mamook.net/mediawiki/index.php/Documentation:Developer_To-do_List). 
If you are working on any changes that you plan to submit back to the 
Mamook project, or start working on an item from our list, please 
participate in our Developer's Mailing List 
(http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mamook-devel) so we can 
co-ordinate code modifications. More information can be found on our 
Developer's Resource page: 
http://www.mamook.net/mediawiki/index.php/Documentation:Resources.


-- Carmen Leeming
Mamook Project Lead

Mamook Release Candidate 3 is now available.  This version includes a 
couple of bug fixes, some general cleanup, and some database changes.  
If you are using Mamook-2.0RC2, it is not essential to upgrade to 
Mamook-2.0RC3, but you will need to make the transition (changes to the 
database structure and to the release_constants_template file) once 
Mamook-2.0 is released.  Please help us test this release candidate and 
report any bugs that you find. For more information, visit 
http://www.mamook.net

Changes from Mamook-2.0RC2:
Code changes:
- fixed broken Feedback form (tracker #1233035)
- moved database connections to use DSN
- several hard-coded items were made constants (tracker #1233178)
- release_constants_template was reorganized for easier readability
- fixed bug where contact action could not be deleted (tracker #1241237)
- fixed bug where applicant could not search for specific coverletters 
(tracker #1237812)
- fixed bug where Employer's Application job list file was truncated 
(tracker #1241802)
Database changes:
- removed unnecessary database indexes
- removed references to obsolete table "reset_when"
- added Feedback to database menu and module

--Carmen Leeming
Mamook Project Lead

Release Candidate 2 of Mamook-2.0 is now available for download.  This 
second release candidate has the following changes from Mamook-2.0RC1:
- Fixed infinite loops in date pulldowns when database is empty 
(Tracker#: 1232394)
- Fixed broken query in coverletters/student/coverletter_list.inc
- Removed unneeded .htaccess file

If you are currently helping us test our release candidates, it is 
recommended that you download the new version.  If you choose not to 
download RC2, please note that with an unpopulated database you will 
encounter infinite loops on pages that expect a date to be selected from 
the database.  Once you have records in the database in each module, the 
loops will not occur.


This latest download is available on Sourceforge: 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129069&package_id=156681&release_id=339773 
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129069&package_id=156681&release_id=339773>

Please help us test this release candidate and report any bugs that you 
find to our Sourceforge bug tracker: 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=129069&atid=713678 
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=129069&atid=713678>

For follow-up discussion on this announcement, or to discuss the latest 
release of Mamook, visit our Mamook Open Discussion forum: 
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=438586

Visit our Mamook home page for documentation, installation instructions, 
and developer resources: http://www.mamook.net


Regards,
--Carmen