CUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System: Issueshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/favicon.ico2023-12-04T15:15:33ZCUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System
Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Support #19366 (New): Commons help email addresshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/193662023-12-04T15:15:33ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi Scott -- thanks so much for all of the work you did to help us transition to a new help system. I know I'm being super picky here, but how big of a deal would it be for us to create a new gmail address that is <a class="email" href="mailto:commonshelp@gmail.com">commonshelp@gmail.com</a> as opposed to <a class="email" href="mailto:commonshelpsite@gmail.com">commonshelpsite@gmail.com</a>?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #16307 (New): Add brief messaging to accept/decline group membership ...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/163072022-06-27T22:13:20ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>This is not a huge issue, but when I decline a group membership request, I usually like to write to the person who made the request to tell them why I had to decline. Currently, there is no way to do that other than going to the person's profile and sending a message through it. we might want to add a space for messaging to the decline action, so that people receive the decline notification along with a rationale. But maybe this is too small an edge case to be worth of development -- I'd guess this happens only a few times a year</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #13949 (New): Continued debugging of runaway MySQL connectionshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/139492021-02-07T00:47:10ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi Boone,</p>
<p>FYI -- there were MySQL restart alerts at 4:11pm today. I wanted to let you know in case you are better able to track info related to such outages following our recent conversations with Lihua</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #3354 (Assigned): Allow Group Download of Multiple Selected Fileshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/33542014-07-29T22:32:00ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Now that we have the "download all" feature going, I'm wondering whether we should allow members to download a group of selected files at once. The use case here is a group with a large number of files -- too many to download all -- where someone wants to download multiple files together instead of downloading each one individually</p>
<p>UX involved here regarding the look/function of the selectors. Assigning to Chris for first thoughts.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #3220 (Assigned): Add indent/outdent option to Formatting Buttons...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/32202014-05-21T14:38:43ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Wondering whether we can add an indent/outdent buttons to the Profile editing interface. For a test use case, see the blurb under DHDebates on my profile in the Publications area: <a class="external" href="http://cuny.is/mkgold">http://cuny.is/mkgold</a></p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #3080 (Assigned): Create a system to keep track of file changeshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/30802014-02-27T03:04:28ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Per our discussion in this ticket - <a class="external" href="http://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/2833">http://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/2833</a> - it might be worth thinking about a system that would keep an activity log of changes (additions, modifications, deletions) of group files</p> NYCDH Community Site - Bug #2618 (Assigned): Mark blogs as spam when created by users marked as spamhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/26182013-06-10T03:34:26ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Per an email discussion based on an nycdh.org issue, WordPress does not automatically mark a blog as spam when its creator is marked as spam. As you noted, Boone, it's a WP issue; if you could work on it at some point by, as you noted, "creat[ing] a patch to WP, or a small mu-plugin, or probably both," that would be great. Many thanks.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #2223 (Assigned): Add Participad to the CUNY Academic Commonshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/22232012-10-29T16:42:06ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p><a class="external" href="http://teleogistic.net/2012/10/introducing-participad-realtime-collaboration-for-wordpress/">http://teleogistic.net/2012/10/introducing-participad-realtime-collaboration-for-wordpress/</a></p>
<p>How/Where to add it? Boone, have you done any thinking along these lines already? Certainly, there will be UI considerations.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #940 (Assigned): Communication with users after releaseshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/9402011-07-08T17:25:47ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Often, we need to communicate with users after a release (point or feature) to tell them that something they've requested is now fixed or some new feature is implemented. It's hard to remember, by the time the update is made to the site, who should be notified.</p>
<p>It would be cool if there was a way to add a feature to Redmine, I guess, though perhaps through Git, that would allow us to send notifications to interested parties upon release so that they could know that they could now try out the thing they had requested.</p>
<p>Right now, I'm going to do this manually by setting up an email and keeping it in my drafts folder, and then sending it when the release is done. But it would be cool if we could add a field to redmine tickets where we could add email addresses of requesters, and then when the update went live, they'd get an automated email that a link to the ticket and to the site, and then telling them to contact us again if anything else was needed. It would complete the feedback loop with users.</p>
<p>Maybe we'd need to add another status to differentiate tickets that have been resolved but not uploaded to the site and those that have.</p>
<p>Assigning this to Boone, for now, though there are many ways to possibly go about this. Also adding the community/dev teams as watchers.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #635 (Assigned): Big Blue Button - Videoconferencing in Groups an...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/6352011-03-10T21:54:26ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>I'm meeting with Chris and Michael, and they suggested we look into <a href="http://www.bigbluebutton.org/" class="external">Big Blue Button</a> which is an open-source videoconferencing tool. We started to wonder whether it might be integrated into BuddyPress groups so that groups could easily create video conferences among group members.</p>
<p>It looks like there is already a <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bigbluebutton/" class="external">WordPress plugin</a> to provide integration, but I don't think that one has been created for BuddyPress. What do you think about looking into writing that plugin? Might be very cool!</p>
<p>Michael and Chris, by the way, say that Joe Ugoretz uses this and can comment upon it.</p>
<p>Since there might be some server demands involved, I've added André as a watcher (along with Chris and Michael)</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #599 (Assigned): Consider adding rating plugins for BuddyPress/BB...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/5992011-02-21T17:09:18ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>This <a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/how-to-gamify-your-class-website/31332" class="external">ProfHacker post</a> mentions a number of BuddyPress plugins that we should consider for the Commons (text below from the article):</p>
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<p><a href="http://cubepoints.com/" class="external">CubePoints</a> with <a href="http://buddypress.org/community/groups/cubepoints-buddypress-integration/" class="external">CubePoints BuddyPress Integration</a> — In many ways, CubePoints makes use of information that’s already available in the system: who is checking the site regularly? Replying to questions on the forum? Adding links to interesting new content? CubePoints rewards users with points for all these actions and can keep a leader board with ranks unlocked. It’s all highly customizable: you can set the number of points for each action and add names and images to ranks.</p>
<p><a href="http://achievementsapp.com/" class="external">Achievements</a> — The Achievements plug-in lets you set rewards for particular actions. These can be automated, like a reward for posting a certain number of times to a class forum, or triggered by you. Achievements that require you to moderate their success can be more difficult to manage, but they give you a chance to reward behaviors that go above and beyond class requirements. (This can also work as a points system, though it does not yet integrate with CubePoints—the next version of both might fix that.)</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-rate-forum-posts/" class="external">BuddyPress Rate Forum Posts</a> — The ability to rate posts acts as an extension of peer review and a check on excessive but meaningless contribution. If you’re rewarding high “scorers” in the class game in structural ways, such as with first choice of presentation dates or the ability to propose extra credit “missions” (two rewards I’m trying this semester), the voting system also asks as a way to encourage students to be their own community moderators.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-links/" class="external">BuddyPress Links</a> — A plug-in for sharing links that is already integrated with CubePoints. If you have a class that involves a lot of current content, this is one way to build a space for the sharing of links to relevant material. There’s also a voting system on links that will help in tracking down dead or useless links.</p>
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<p>I would like to bring these plugins up for discussion at the 2/25/11 SubCat meeting. Boone, if you have thoughts about these plugins and their possible integration into our system, please let me know.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #500 (Assigned): Export Group Datahttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/5002010-12-19T16:38:24ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>I was in the process of explaining some of the benefits of using WP to someone, and I wanted to talk about data portability. And then I realized that, as BuddyPress currently, stands, it's not possible to export group data.</p>
<p>I see that this is a potential feature for BP 1.4+ on the Roadmap (<a class="external" href="http://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/">http://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/</a>), but we might think about developing a tool for this, because it seems like a pretty critical feature.</p>
<p>What do you think?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #435 (Assigned): Include Avatar Images in Forum Post Notification...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4352010-12-06T23:40:52ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>I've noticed that Basecamp includes the avatar image of message posters, and I think that might be a nice feature for our own notification system. What do you think, and how hard would it be to set this up?</p>
<p>I guess this also raises some questions around the styling and format of notification messages -- do we use HTML or only plain-text images?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #377 (Assigned): Like buttonshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/3772010-10-26T14:16:13ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Should we consider adding "like" functionality to the site that will allow members to "like" posts? Looks like this BP plugin provides that functionality - <a class="external" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-like/">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-like/</a></p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #364 (New): Bulletin Boardhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/3642010-10-06T03:58:00ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>I've had a few people contact me to ask about where they might post announcements. I know we've talked about something like this in the past, but here are a few ideas:</p>
<p>1. A general area where people could post announcements. We could have a checkbox on sign up that asks people whether they want to subscribe by email<br />2. A craigslist type bulletin board -- perhaps done through a group, but is access more through the forum interface than through a group interface<br />3. A general group for announcements.</p>
<p>What do you all think? I think that, generally, it should be an easy to use space that allows opt-in subscriptions.</p>