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Hi All,

I have recently been working on some code that enhances grouping 
departments in Mamook. Just to give a quick introduction of what groups 
are. Groups allow you to combine two or more academic departments 
together. This feature is used for sharing information between 
departments, such as viewing students from both departments and such. 
The changes that were just committed today is part of an effort to 
enhance our grouping capabilities. If you're using our latest snapshot 
of our code, you'll have to run SQL/RC4_to_RC5_c.sql.

Before you run this file, make sure you record the information from the 
department_group table. Then, you'll have to reinsert this information 
into department_group and the new table called department_group_join.

This new code should be available in tomorrow's snapshot.

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

Please note that the Mamook Development Team will be on holidays between 
December 21, 2006 - January 3, 2007. Thank you all for your 
contributions and feedback this year for the Mamook software system. I 
wish everyone happy holidays and a merry Christmas. See you all in the 
new year. :)

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

Hi All,

We are planning a release of Mamook 2.0RC5 fairly soon. Therefore, a 
feature freeze is now in effect on the Mamook source code. At this 
point, we will only accept bug fixes. Please help us test our nightly 
snapshots which can be found here: 
http://www.mamook.net/mediawiki/index.php/Documentation:Downloading

If you'd like to see what has changed in Mamook 2.0RC5, check out: 
http://www.mamook.net/projects/mamook/report/13

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

Hi All,

We're meeting on April 19, 2006 11:00 PDT (GMT -7) on our IRC channel. 
It will be held at DALnet on the #mamook channel 
(irc://dragons.dal.net:7000/mamook).

Topics for this week include:
-Status report on projects
-State of Mamook-2.0RC5
-Easier installation for Mamook-2.0RC5
-Requirements gathering for Mamook Installer project
-New FAQ page needed for new comers
-Summer developers
-Open discussion

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

Hi Carmen,

I just reviewed your changeset 
http://www.mamook.net/projects/mamook/changeset/222 where you fixed the 
isValidEmail() function so that it handles domain name suffixes that are 
4 characters long instead of 3.

I found an official list of valid domain name suffixes over at 
ICANN.org, and you can see the list here: 
http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt

It looks like .museum and .travel are valid suffixes as well now. I 
wonder if it'd be a good idea to introduce a new constant which sets how 
long a domain name suffix can be.

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

Hi Alvis,


Alvis Koon wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I encountered some problem installing the mamook.
>
> 1) What is the SCRIPT_PATH in the release_constants.inc?
>
The SCRIPT_PATH is somewhat of a legacy constant that will change in
Mamook 2.0RC5. However, in Mamook 2.0RC4, SCRIPT_PATH was used to point
to an authentication script that you write. This authentication was used
only for student and staff logins. Mamook will execute your script with
two parameters. It's up to your script to return a colon delimited
string that says whether the login succeeded (0 or 1), the type of user
this is (S for student, E for staff), and an identifier (a student
number or contact_id).

This was done this way because a lot of users of Mamook already have
existing authentication databases. So, by being able to write a script,
you can bridge get Mamook to work with that existing database.

In Mamook 2.0RC5, you'll be able to choose how you want your
authentication done, ie by a third-party database as described above, by
LDAP authentication, or handled internally inside Mamook.

> 2) After I installed, the following error occurred.
>
> adoloadcode(/var/www/adodb/drivers/adodb-type.inc.php): failed to open 
> stream: No such file or directoryadoloadcode(): Failed opening 
> '/var/www/adodb/drivers/adodb-type.inc.php' for inclusion 
> (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear')Missing file: 
> /var/www/adodb/drivers/adodb-type.inc.php
>
> ADONewConnection: Unable to load database driver 
> 'type://user:pass@server/database?option=value'
>
>
> *Fatal error*: Call to a member function on a non-object in 
> */var/www/mamook/plugins/PluginCommander.class.php* on line *71
>
> *I did set the type to mysql, why is this error happening?

I looked at your release constants, and this error is occuring because
you have the DB_DSN constant defined. In the comments in the release
constants, it says to use [DB_TYPE, DB_USER, DB_PASS] or [DB_DSN]. So,
if you comment out the DB_DSN constant, it should work.

>
> Thanks

I strongly suggest that you change your passwords and values in your
secured constants since they were included in this e-mail. Your secured
constants should never be shared.

Hopefully that helps.

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

Hi All,

Scratch that last e-mail. The IRC Meeting is on Wednesday, Jan 18, 2006 
11:00 PST (GMT -8) on our IRC channel which is at DALnet on the #mamook 
channel (irc://dragons.dal.net:7000/mamook).

My mistake.

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

Hi All,

Just a heads up that we are resuming our weekly IRC meetings. It will be 
held on Wednesday, Jan 11, 2006 11:00 PST (GMT -8) on our IRC channel 
which is at DALnet on the #mamook channel 
(irc://dragons.dal.net:7000/mamook).

Topics we want to discuss:
-Mamook 2.0 RC5
-Revised timeline
-Important announcements

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

Greetings All,

The Mamook core developers will be on Christmas holidays from December 
21, 2005 to January 3, 2006. I will be periodically checking my e-mail 
though.

Have a safe and happy holiday, and we look forward to a new big year of 
development for Mamook in 2006.

Cheers

-Chris Chan
____________________
Mamook Core Developer
www.mamook.net

Hi All,

A number of our developers are having problems this morning connecting 
to our IRC channel on dalnet. So, we're rescheduling our weekly IRC 
meeting for next Wednesday 11:00 (-8:00GMT).

Cheers

-Chris Chan

Mamook Core Developer
www.mamook.net

Hi All,

Last week I posted a blog article about what's coming in Mamook2.0-RC5
for the resume and coverletter module. You can find the article here:
http://www.mamook.net/hatchery/?q=node/16

It discusses the state of RC5, the new plugin hooks for resume and
coverletters, and more.

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

Our weekly developer IRC meetings are back on. We're meeting on October 
19, 2005 11:00 PDT (GMT -7) on our IRC channel. It will be held at 
DALnet on the #mamook channel (irc://dragons.dal.net:7000/mamook).

Topics for this week include:
-Status report on projects
-State of Mamook-2.0RC5
-Official launch of Mamook Hatchery
-Open discussion

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

I'm just informing everyone that the StudentInfoEditor plugin has just
been committed to subversion. It can be found in
/mamook/plugins/MamookStudentInfoEditor/ and it should be appearing in
tomorrow's nightly snapshot of the code. The plugin is now ready for
second review. I was originally supposed to test it, but I had to make
some non-trivial adjustments to the code, so someone else should review
my changes. I'm going to be bold, and declare that this plugin is now
fairly stable. Special thanks to Pat for coding the bulk of this plugin.

The test plan and ticket can be found here:
http://www.mamook.net/projects/mamook/ticket/30

This ticket is on the critical path of getting Mamook-2.0RC5 released,
so we should test this as soon as possible.

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

I'd like to inform everyone that our weekly IRC meeting which is 
scheduled for October 12, 2005 has been cancelled. A lot of our core 
developers are taking some time off during this Thanksgiving weekend, 
and will be unavailable. So, we decided to cancel it. The weekly 
meetings will resume on October 19, 2005 though.

Cheers and have a great weekend.

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

Our regularly-scheduled IRC meeting will take place this week at 11:30 
PDT (-7 GMT), half an hour later than the regular time.  The meeting is 
today (Wednesday).  As usual, it will be held at DALnet on the #mamook 
channel (irc://dragons.dal.net:7000/mamook).

This week our agenda includes:
-Status report on projects
-Project planning -- new roadmap
-Testing and bug report backlog
-The Mamook Hatchery
-Open discussion

Cheers,
--Carmen Leeming
Mamook Project Lead

This is a general notice to our testers. We've recently fixed two bugs 
related to the navigation menu (thanks Myron). The first bug was logging 
in as the ADMIN_LOGIN user level (as defined in your 
secured_constants.inc). The navigation menu doesn't load at all. We 
found a second bug where the user level EMPLOYER also had the same problem.

These were due to the changes to our mamook/misc/show_menu.inc. The 
changes allowed plugins to hook into the navigation menu.

In either case, we should test the navigation menu against all user 
levels in Mamook before RC5 goes out. This includes STUDENT, OFFICE, 
ADMIN_STUDENT, EMPLOYER, ADMIN_EMPLOYER, ADMIN_LOGIN, NEW_EMPLOYER, 
LIMBO, and PUBLIC.

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

We now have a new Mamook community discussion area, named the Mamook 
Hatchery.  This site allows for developer blogs, article posting, 
forums, aggregated RSS feeds of interest, and voting.  The Hatchery can 
be found at: http://www.mamook.net/hatchery

We welcome our developers to set up a blog and talk about their daily 
issues while developing for Mamook.  Drop by and create your account!

--Carmen Leeming
Mamook Project Lead

This is for anyone who has been developing on Mamook from the trunk or 
the nightly snapshot. This branch of development contains new features 
for plugins. There's an easy way for plugins to hook into the navigation 
menu without having to go into the database. Anyone who has plugins that 
take advantage of this should listen up.

Two hooks were available:
mamook.traffic_director.getmenus
mamook.traffic_director.getmenu_subitems

For consistency, the hooks have been renamed to:
mamook.traffic_director.get_menus
mamook.traffic_director.get_menu_sub_items

So, anyone who has plugins that relied on those hooks should update 
their register_hook functions.

Yesterday, I also fixed a bug where plugin menu subitems weren't showing 
up in the navigation menu. All of these changes should be available in 
tomorrow's nightly snapshot.

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

A quick reminder for our developers that we're having an IRC meeting 
today (September 28, 2005) at 11:00 PDT (GMT -7).  As usual, it will be 
held at DALnet on the #mamook channel (irc://dragons.dal.net:7000/mamook).

Topics for this week include:

-Status report on projects
-Changes to plugin hooks
-The Mamook Hatchery
-Mamook in the news
-Open discussion

Cheers,
--Carmen Leeming
Mamook Project Lead

The new authentication module requires two new constants to be defined
in the misc/release_constants.inc file in order for admin
student/staff login to work.  These constants have been resurrected
from an older version of release_constants, so you may or may not have
them defined already depending on how far back your version of the
code stretches.

The constants are as follows:

define("ADMIN_DEPARTMENT",       *x*);
define("STUDENT_DEPARTMENT", *x*);

Where *x* is whatever department you want to log in as for the
respective admin logins.

Existing constants such as ADMIN_ENABLED and STUDENT_ENABLED retain
their previous meanings, as do ADMIN_LOGIN and STUDENT_LOGIN in the
secured_constants file.

All other new constants defined by the new Authentication model are
held temporarily in authentication/Authenticate.class.php, so that
they can be kept under version control.  As they become more finalized
and stable, I'll move them into other constant files and document them
in their respective templates.

Documentation for the current set of constants will also be available
shortly on the wiki.

--
Myron Wu
(http://homepage.mac.com/myronwu/)

A quick reminder for our developers that we're having an IRC meeting 
today (September 21, 2005) at 11:00 PDT (GMT -7).  As usual, it will be 
held at DALnet on the #mamook channel (irc://dragons.dal.net:7000/mamook).
 
 Topics for this week include:
 
 -Status report on projects
 -Developer community tools
 -Mamook demo system
 -Mamook in the news
 -Open discussion

Cheers,
--Carmen Leeming
Mamook Project Lead

We have agreed to hold weekly Developer's IRC meetings every Wednesday 
at 11:00PDT (GMT-7). Typically we share what development is happening, 
future projects, documentation priorities, and more. This is a good way 
to meet our core developers, and to ask them questions you may have. 
It's an excellent way for new developers to get connected with the 
community. If the time of the meeting doesn't work for you, we can 
discuss changing it if there's enough interest.

For more information about IRC, see our developer's resource page: 
http://www.mamook.net/mediawiki/index.php/Documentation:Resources#IRC

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

Just wanted to notify all our developers that we're having another IRC 
meeting on September 14, 2005 11:00 PDT (GMT -7) on our IRC channel. It 
will be held at DALnet on the #mamook channel 
(irc://dragons.dal.net:7000/mamook).

Topics for this week include:

-Status report on projects
-Settling on regular IRC meeting time
-New documentation available
-Documentation priorities
-Open discussion

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

Hey Pat,

I've starting testing your branch where you introduced menu hooks for 
plugins. Is it possible for a plug-in to install a top level menu item, 
and then hook sub-menu items onto that?

I think there may be some issues with that as well. For people who don't 
use javascript menus, one has to click on a top level menu item, and the 
page is reloaded, and that menu's sub-menu items are revealed. A 
$menu_select variable is passed around in order to remember which top 
level menu item is expanded with sub-menu items showing. Based on what 
I've seen, it doesn't look like plugins that hook into the menu pass 
around the $menu_select variable.

Am I missing something? Or is there still more to do for the plug-in 
framework?

Cheers

-Chris Chan
Mamook Core Developer

There is a lot of documentation that we need to keep adding to our wiki 
at www.mamook.net.  I have been incrementally going through the Database 
Scheme files to document all the tables.  This is taking quite a while, 
but is gradually getting there.

We have an outline on the wiki (on the Documentation page) about what we 
would like to eventually have documented.  It would be useful to have 
input from the community about what you think is most important for us 
to document next. 

So if there are any requests for documentation, please let us know.  
Also, if anyone would like to help us document, that would be great!

--Carmen
Mamook Project Lead