CUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System: Issueshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/favicon.ico2013-06-10T03:34:26ZCUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System
Redmine 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> NYCDH Community Site - Feature #2577 (Assigned): Investigate Potential to Add Links to the Forumhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/25772013-05-16T21:14:40ZMark Newtonmnewton@columbia.edu
<p>Issue History between Matt and Alex</p>
<p>Any way to have the link to the help & support group point directly to the forum? [no, not right now, unless we write new code. You could request this as an option here -- <a class="external" href="https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box">https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box</a> - but what you want to request is that users have the option of making the group homepage the forum instead of activity -- MKG] [will do. might be useful for help pages. i'll dig around to see how to add the functionality. if it's not too time consuming I'll put in a pull request. ]</p> NYCDH Community Site - Bug #2576 (Hold): Test Next Button in Javascript Tutorial Under Activitieshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/25762013-05-16T21:13:39ZMark Newtonmnewton@columbia.edu
<p>Issue history with Matt and Alex</p>
<p>The javascript tutorial on the activities section is screwy on the when you click on the ‘next’ button. [can you describe what you mean by "screwy" and/or take a screenshot/screencast? Also describe your browser/os. Just tried it and it worked okay for me --MKG][Hard to try again once you've been through it. seems only to work on first run. i saw two things. on click the arrow box turned into a blank square of a different size. on the last page, hovering on the drop-down menu, the pop-up box is cut in half by the browser window. i'm using Chrome on LionOSX. AG][thanks for this report, Alex. Can you add it here - <a class="external" href="https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-theme">https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-theme</a> ? --MKG]</p> NYCDH Community Site - Feature #2574 (Assigned): Add Way to Upload Files to Groupshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/25742013-05-16T21:12:06ZMark Newtonmnewton@columbia.eduNYCDH Community Site - Feature #2573 (Reporter Feedback): Add dh_nyc twitter list feed to sitehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/25732013-05-16T21:11:46ZMark Newtonmnewton@columbia.eduNYCDH Community Site - Feature #2571 (Assigned): Add Google custom search box to homepagehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/25712013-05-16T21:10:13ZMark Newtonmnewton@columbia.eduCUNY Academic Commons - Feature #1508 (Assigned): Share login cookies across mapped domainshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/15082012-01-05T17:48:19ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>With <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: Help MALS Journal set up a domain alias (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/1501">#1501</a>, we've started doing some custom domain mapping on the Commons. Because browsers authenticate cookies on a domain-by-domain basis, this means that your Commons login session does not persist when visiting the mapped domains. It'd be very nice if this didn't happen. Since we're operating from a whitelist of mapped domains, it shouldn't be too hard to share these cookies. A quick search shows <a class="external" href="http://ikailo.com/218/cross-domain-cookie-sharing-wordpress/">http://ikailo.com/218/cross-domain-cookie-sharing-wordpress/</a></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 #585 (Assigned): Merge Forum Topicshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/5852011-02-16T01:55:38ZSarah Morgano
<p>A member from the Commons suggested merging forum topics in an effort to reduce duplicate posts. He also suggested a “quote” function or some other method of only responding to a particular member’s post (which becomes important in longer threads.)</p>
<p>See original forum post here: <a class="external" href="http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/wordpress-help/forum/topic/merge-forum-topics/">http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/wordpress-help/forum/topic/merge-forum-topics/</a></p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Sarah</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 #58 (Assigned): Make member search sortable by last namehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/582009-10-28T19:31:58ZRoberta BrodyRoberta.Brody@QC.cuny.edu
<p>The automatic indexing of groups and names uses the first word entered. This means that people are indexed by first name and groups by first word. The search box takes care of finding particular words so no urgency here. BUT: 1. It's not wonderful to have stuff indexed under "The" or "A", etc. -- this is a common text issue and I'm sure that there is an already existant solution to this that can be applied. 2. Right now, it's kinda' friendly to be indexed by first name but when the AC gets bigger, it may get more difficult to find folks with unusual spellings of last names. Fuzzy search can address this BUT a browseable index by last name would be nice ... (Yes, I realize that some people only list a user name or first name only -- but thought we might consider this)</p>