Activity
From 2012-01-16 to 2012-02-14
2012-02-14
- 10:15 PM Support #1630 (Resolved): Security Issues with Form Plugins
- Hi Boone,
A member recently reported problems trying to use the cformsII and Google Docs Form plugin to embed a co... - 07:57 PM Feature #1623: Install Anthologize
- André, we need a couple of PHP extensions installed and enabled:
XSL: http://www.php.net/manual/en/xsl.setup.php
XM... - 09:48 AM Support #1629 (Resolved): Deleting Group Announcements
- A member has written to us to ask whether group announcements can be deleted. Is this functionality currently in plac...
2012-02-13
- 12:08 PM Feature #1625: Modify Default Avatar and Assignment Process
- I agree that some option which provides some variety in the default image would be better than what we have currently...
2012-02-09
- 09:13 AM Feature #1625: Modify Default Avatar and Assignment Process
- I like Gravatar's retro default images and think they'd be a big improvement on what we have now. That's my vote.
- 08:30 AM Feature #1625: Modify Default Avatar and Assignment Process
- Gravatar offers the ability to show an auto-generated image for users who do not have locally uploaded avatars (or Gr...
2012-02-08
- 09:45 PM Feature #1625: Modify Default Avatar and Assignment Process
- Yeah -- good point and nice catch.
- 09:35 PM Feature #1625: Modify Default Avatar and Assignment Process
- I have attached a screenshot of the main page as an example.
- 09:28 PM Feature #1625: Modify Default Avatar and Assignment Process
- I remember that our choice of default avatar was affected by gravatar -- maybe in relation to "this ticket":http://re...
- 09:24 PM Feature #1625 (Assigned): Modify Default Avatar and Assignment Process
- Thanks, Scott. Can you point us to a page where you see this happening?
- 09:19 PM Feature #1625 (Resolved): Modify Default Avatar and Assignment Process
- When pages contain links to members, and many have default avatars, our display looks bad. Can we change the default...
- 08:31 PM Outreach #1473 (Resolved): Create News Blog Post on Akismet for CUNY
- 07:44 PM Bug #1609: problem inviting members to hidden group
- All have joined. I can confirm that none of them saw the notification, so it would have to be that all of them had ca...
- 06:33 PM Bug #1609: problem inviting members to hidden group
- Any chance that this could be a browser caching issue -- ie., maybe the new notification really was there for Michael...
- 04:57 PM Bug #1609 (Reporter Feedback): problem inviting members to hidden group
- Hm...I can't reproduce this. In a hidden group, I sent an invitation to another user. That user received an email not...
- 06:54 PM Feature #1624 (Rejected): Group's announcements disappear when group privacy changed
- Long story:
The "NYCNECT group":http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/nyc-nursing-education-consortium-in-technology-n... - 06:44 PM Bug #1555: Sticky forum post shows up twice in post listings
- Awesome. Thanks, Boone.
- 04:32 PM Bug #1555 (Resolved): Sticky forum post shows up twice in post listings
- This is caused by some custom code introduced long ago to correct the way that sticky topics are displayed. I have si...
- 06:40 PM Bug #1558: Login Issues
- Wow. That sounds like an awesome fix. Many thanks for your work.
- 04:39 PM Bug #1558 (Resolved): Login Issues
- This was being caused by a PHP timeout. The Recent Blog Posts sidebar, at the time, contained many posts from private...
- 06:39 PM Feature #1559: Crop Text Length Field on Featured Homepage Widget Doesn't Work
- I think I may have been trying it with a group. Need to do a git pull (which I haven't done in a while) before I can ...
- 04:41 PM Feature #1559 (Reporter Feedback): Crop Text Length Field on Featured Homepage Widget Doesn't Work
- I just gave it a quick test and found that it does work, at least for blog posts, and at least on my local installati...
- 06:37 PM Bug #1568: Member reports problem with email notifications
- Thanks, Boone. André, please let me know about next steps when you have a chance, as I'd like to get back to the memb...
- 04:43 PM Bug #1568: Member reports problem with email notifications
- It sounds like this is probably not related to the Commons codebase (likely to be a problem between the Commons's out...
- 06:30 PM Bug #1621: Private blog posts feeding into another group
- Fantastic. Thanks for your work on this, Boone.
- 05:16 PM Bug #1621: Private blog posts feeding into another group
- Many thanks, as always, Boone! I just emailed the member to let her know that everything should be squared away in th...
- 04:11 PM Bug #1621 (Resolved): Private blog posts feeding into another group
- The offending activity items have been removed. It's possible (though unlikely, due to the nature of the circumstance...
- 04:06 PM Bug #1621: Private blog posts feeding into another group
- This is caused by an obscure bug in the bp-groupblog plugin. The chain of events (quite literally a chain) goes somet...
- 02:33 PM Bug #1621: Private blog posts feeding into another group
- If it's high enough priority to get a bump this quickly, then just mark it as such. That's what priorities are for.
- 01:15 PM Bug #1621: Private blog posts feeding into another group
- bump
- 06:29 PM Bug #1616: BP Docs timeout issue
- Great. thank you.
- 05:56 PM Bug #1616: BP Docs timeout issue
- This is due to some changes in the way that TinyMCE works post-WP 3.3. It's going to take a bunch of research to get ...
- 06:28 PM Feature #1623: Install Anthologize
- Great. Thanks, Boone.
- 05:57 PM Feature #1623: Install Anthologize
- We didn't have the necessary server requirements before. I don't know if that's the case now that we're on the new bo...
- 04:46 PM Bug #1571 (Resolved): Non-CUNY Sign-Up Code Pages Published
- Fixed in https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/a3359db0fb7c68f146d101dc56d156d50f349efd
- 04:13 PM Bug #1396 (Reporter Feedback): InLine Google Docs Plugin Not Working
2012-02-07
- 08:56 PM Feature #1620 (Resolved): Dummy site for CBox
- http://commonsinabox.org/
- 11:07 AM Feature #1620 (Resolved): Dummy site for CBox
- 1) Create Commons site
2) Map main domain with domain mapping tools
3) Write htaccess rules to redirect the remaini... - 08:47 PM Feature #1623 (Resolved): Install Anthologize
- JITP has put in a request for for anthologize. Looks like it was "installed and then removed":http://redmine.gc.cuny....
- 08:02 PM Bug #1621 (Assigned): Private blog posts feeding into another group
- 07:46 PM Bug #1621 (Resolved): Private blog posts feeding into another group
- A member has a private group (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lehman-college-online/) and the group blog posts are ...
- 11:06 AM Feature #1617 (Resolved): New vhosts for Commons In A Box domains
- Beautiful. I've change the DNS and it's looking good. Thanks, André.
- 09:51 AM Feature #1617 (Reporter Feedback): New vhosts for Commons In A Box domains
- Added both now and reloaded the server configuration.
We can now simply set these addresses as @CNAME@ of commons....
2012-02-06
- 09:30 AM Feature #1617 (Resolved): New vhosts for Commons In A Box domains
- Hi André. I'd like to create a placeholder site for the Commons In A Box project on the Commons. Could you please cre...
2012-02-05
- 12:20 PM Bug #1616 (Resolved): BP Docs timeout issue
- I was just working on a BP doc when it timed out and saved an edited version. The timing of this seemed related not t...
2012-02-04
- 10:22 AM Feature #1615 (Duplicate): Forum search
- Duplicate of #140
- 10:13 AM Feature #1615 (Duplicate): Forum search
- When one comes to a group with an active forum, it's very tough to find past threads. One can use the google search, ...
2012-02-03
- 08:57 AM Bug #1614: Non-CUNY Sign-Up Code Disappears After Creation
- Sure, but it might be worth creating your own sign-up and seeing what happens to it -- I'm not completely sure these ...
- 08:42 AM Bug #1614 (Hold): Non-CUNY Sign-Up Code Disappears After Creation
- It's hard for me to see how this could happen, looking at the code. Next time it happens on the live site, will you l...
2012-02-02
- 09:01 PM Bug #1614 (Resolved): Non-CUNY Sign-Up Code Disappears After Creation
- I've now used the non-CUNY sign up code tool twice. It's great. But I have noticed a strange bug: a certain period af...
- 04:35 PM Feature #1613: JITP cuny.is shortlink
- Fantastic -- thanks, Boone. I've asked them for all links/shortcodes to be sent in one batch and urged them to keep i...
- 04:03 PM Feature #1613 (Reporter Feedback): JITP cuny.is shortlink
- > Relatedly, we can do the same thing for subpages on that blog, right? Ie., cuny.is/jitpsubmissions can redirect to ...
- 03:49 PM Feature #1613 (Resolved): JITP cuny.is shortlink
- We've had a request from JITP journal to create the shortlink cuny.is/jitp and redirect it to http://jitp.commons.gc....
- 01:12 PM Bug #1609 (Assigned): problem inviting members to hidden group
- Thanks for adapting, Michael. I'll try to pin down the issue.
- 12:57 PM Bug #1609: problem inviting members to hidden group
- One more update:
I was able to successfully sign user up by having them go here
http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/grou... - 12:19 PM Bug #1609: problem inviting members to hidden group
- I asked a different student to confirm if they had any notifications and if they could see the invite in their member...
- 11:41 AM Bug #1609: problem inviting members to hidden group
- Thanks for your quick attention to this, Boone.
- 11:28 AM Bug #1609 (Reporter Feedback): problem inviting members to hidden group
- Not sure why notifications are not appearing, but in any case users should be able to access their group invitations ...
- 11:02 AM Bug #1609 (Assigned): problem inviting members to hidden group
- 11:01 AM Bug #1609 (Rejected): problem inviting members to hidden group
- I am not sure if this is user error or a bug. I have invited 8 new members to the private/hidden Core 2 group, and no...
2012-02-01
- 08:50 AM Bug #1571: Non-CUNY Sign-Up Code Pages Published
- Makes sense. I just need to remember not to make the name of the page the same thing as the code, which I did the fir...
- 07:46 AM Bug #1571: Non-CUNY Sign-Up Code Pages Published
- Since the code itself is not being published, I'm reducing the priority on this ticket.
- 01:15 AM Bug #1571: Non-CUNY Sign-Up Code Pages Published
- Here's a link: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/cac_ncs_code/nycnect-2012/
2012-01-31
- 10:06 AM Bug #1572 (Resolved): Can't find Non-CUNY signup on Dashboard menu
- Got it. Thanks.
- 10:05 AM Bug #1572 (Reporter Feedback): Can't find Non-CUNY signup on Dashboard menu
- It's not in Network Admin. http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/ - about the middle of the menu.
- 10:03 AM Bug #1572 (Resolved): Can't find Non-CUNY signup on Dashboard menu
- Can't seem to find non-cuny signup on the network admin menu. Don't remember how I found it yesterday.
- 10:04 AM Bug #1571: Non-CUNY Sign-Up Code Pages Published
- One item per ticket. See #1572.
- 10:02 AM Bug #1571 (Resolved): Non-CUNY Sign-Up Code Pages Published
- Problem 1: Noticed last night that non-cuny sign-up code pages are actually published on the site.
2012-01-30
- 10:57 PM Bug #1555: Sticky forum post shows up twice in post listings
- Just noticed this again on another group. Screenshot attached.
- 01:03 PM Bug #1568: Member reports problem with email notifications
- Okay. So, do you want to be in direct contact with the user in question, or should I act as intermediary? If you can ...
- 11:32 AM Bug #1568: Member reports problem with email notifications
- Two things: finding out how pervasive is the issue (how many affected) and trying to consistently reproduce the issu...
- 11:17 AM Bug #1568: Member reports problem with email notifications
- Hi André,
Please see the related email sent by George. Where do we go from here? - 10:25 AM Bug #1568: Member reports problem with email notifications
- Matt Gold wrote:
> Interesting. When we were whitelisting the CUNY Commons email address, we dealt with campuses, bu... - 10:06 AM Bug #1568: Member reports problem with email notifications
- Interesting. When we were whitelisting the CUNY Commons email address, we dealt with campuses, but never Central CUNY...
- 09:57 AM Bug #1568: Member reports problem with email notifications
- Boone, let's do both. I've set this stuff to be readable by @commons@, but I'd like to investigate these as well.
...
2012-01-28
- 11:34 AM Bug #1568: Member reports problem with email notifications
- André, can you grant permission for the commons user to read the mail logs in /var/log/ so that I can see whether the...
- 11:27 AM Bug #1568 (Resolved): Member reports problem with email notifications
- Please see related email -- member of the CAT group reports that she hasn't been receiving email notifications even t...
2012-01-24
- 02:39 PM Feature #1454 (Resolved): install ack utility
- Boom!
- 02:38 PM Feature #1454 (Reporter Feedback): install ack utility
- Done, no problem....
- 02:35 PM Feature #1454 (Assigned): install ack utility
- Beautiful - looks good, André! Can I ask you to do the same thing on the cdev.gc.cuny.edu box as well when you get a ...
- 11:27 AM Feature #1454 (Reporter Feedback): install ack utility
- 11:27 AM Feature #1454: install ack utility
- My apologies, but this somehow dropped off my radar for a minute there. It's installed now....
2012-01-23
- 11:55 PM Feature #1562 (Assigned): Play with NYT Collaborative Authoring Tool
- Hi All,
Let's play with the NYT's "new collaborative tool":http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/160460/...
2012-01-20
- 01:07 PM Outreach #1561 (Resolved): Add Social Media Icons back to top of side column of News page
- According to Sarah, these used to be there but are now gone.
- 01:05 PM Outreach #1560 (Resolved): Add social media icons/info to About page and Contact Us page
- Google Plus, Facebook, twitter
- 01:00 PM Feature #1559 (Rejected): Crop Text Length Field on Featured Homepage Widget Doesn't Work
- Finding that adding a number to that field doesn't change the actual length of the text displayed.
- 11:48 AM Bug #1558: Login Issues
- Update: this appears not to be affecting admin accounts, but it is affecting regular accounts like the teststudent ac...
- 11:35 AM Bug #1558: Login Issues
- Just did, but that didn't help. Seeing the problem IE and Firefox
- 11:18 AM Bug #1558 (Reporter Feedback): Login Issues
- Please try disabling (Network Admin > Plugins) the CAC SOPA Protest plugin, and try again.
- 11:16 AM Bug #1558 (Resolved): Login Issues
- Here at the CAC meeting, on a PC and using Firefox, when I logged in to the test student account, the Commons navigat...
2012-01-19
- 08:13 AM Feature #1557: Confirmation Message on Adding New Users to Blog
- Sorry -- I was trying to add an existing user to the blog, so it was Dashboard > Add New > Add Existing User
- 08:11 AM Feature #1557 (Reporter Feedback): Confirmation Message on Adding New Users to Blog
- > I selected the user and clicked invite
Just to clarify: you mean that you selected the user and clicked 'Add Exi... - 08:04 AM Feature #1557 (Resolved): Confirmation Message on Adding New Users to Blog
- Just tried to add an existing user to a blog. The live search through the membership rolls worked perfectly -- I star...
- 08:12 AM Feature #1556 (Rejected): New option for College profile field
- If you already added it, I don't think anything is required of me.
- 07:54 AM Feature #1556 (Rejected): New option for College profile field
- Just FYI, I added "New Community College at CUNY" to the options on the College dropdown on the profile field, since ...
- 07:58 AM Bug #1554: User reports infinite redirect issue on blog
- Thanks -- I can confirm that it's working now. I appreciate your help with this.
- 05:40 AM Bug #1554 (Resolved): User reports infinite redirect issue on blog
- I made another modification that should prevent this.
- 01:20 AM Bug #1554: User reports infinite redirect issue on blog
- Hmm. I'm having trouble access zeteojournal.com now through Mac OS X/Chrome. I've seen two things happen: a redirect ...
2012-01-18
- 10:58 PM Bug #1555: Sticky forum post shows up twice in post listings
- That is so not true!! And I actually take pride in my reluctance to escalate ticket priority, which I like to think s...
- 10:28 PM Bug #1555: Sticky forum post shows up twice in post listings
- Congratulations on what is, I believe, your first ever use of the Low priority! :)
- 10:26 PM Bug #1555 (Resolved): Sticky forum post shows up twice in post listings
- Just created a sticky post in the CAC project group. It seems to show up twice in the listings. Tried to un-stick one...
- 10:06 PM Bug #1554: User reports infinite redirect issue on blog
- I'm going to close, as the larger issue will be solved with #1501.
- 10:00 PM Bug #1554: User reports infinite redirect issue on blog
- Okay -- I've passed that advice on. Do we put this on hold until we can fix it or just close? Please do what you thin...
- 09:53 PM Bug #1554: User reports infinite redirect issue on blog
- Either of those are fine.
- 09:41 PM Bug #1554: User reports infinite redirect issue on blog
- Okay -- so, how would you advise her to proceed? To bookmark url/wp-admin, or maybe to add the "meta" widget to the s...
- 09:34 PM Bug #1554: User reports infinite redirect issue on blog
- It's not going to be possible to make the item accessible from the toolbar at the moment. See #1501.
- 09:33 PM Bug #1554: User reports infinite redirect issue on blog
- Thanks, Boone. Here's the report back from the user:
In Chrome, I'm able to log-in to the Commons/dashboard, but w... - 06:58 PM Bug #1554 (Reporter Feedback): User reports infinite redirect issue on blog
- There are a couple of bugs in the domain mapping plugin. I think I have cleared them.
- 05:57 PM Bug #1554 (Resolved): User reports infinite redirect issue on blog
- When one of our users tries to log in to the Zeteo journal blog (http://zeteojournal.com/wp-admin/), she gets the fol...
- 09:58 AM Feature #1550 (Resolved): Please add Simplicity Theme to Commons
- Added in https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/ac05cf7dde13412cc523544af917ad711124dfd4
- 09:07 AM Feature #1550: Please add Simplicity Theme to Commons
- Gah -- sorry. That's what I should have sent in the first place. Apologies.
- 07:23 AM Feature #1550 (Reporter Feedback): Please add Simplicity Theme to Commons
- It appears to require a parent theme called Simplicity. Can you get that to me?
2012-01-17
- 09:53 PM Feature #1550: Please add Simplicity Theme to Commons
- Thanks. Went to network admin to try to activate it but don't see it there. Maybe I'm missing something?
- 09:51 PM Feature #1550: Please add Simplicity Theme to Commons
- No problem. The release is live. You will either have to network activate the theme (if that's your intent), or activ...
- 09:48 PM Feature #1550: Please add Simplicity Theme to Commons
- Thanks, Boone.
- 06:21 PM Feature #1550 (Resolved): Please add Simplicity Theme to Commons
- Added in https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/0201db7eac8ef889433ca5d32910d37750755951
- 11:33 AM Feature #1550 (Resolved): Please add Simplicity Theme to Commons
- Per my email request, I'd very much appreciate it if you could add this theme to the site ASAP. Many thanks.
- 09:32 PM Bug #1551 (Resolved): Create Front-Page SOPA Protest page
- Added in https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/aec6943f40b1c9fe1890ad2c3833fa107d1227b9 and https://github.com/casti...
- 09:29 PM Bug #1551: Create Front-Page SOPA Protest page
- Thanks, Chris. It's a bit late for me to rework the markup to incorporate your speech bubbles - but I'm going to stea...
- 09:17 PM Bug #1551: Create Front-Page SOPA Protest page
- Sorry boone, was doing dinner and getting the kids to bed. In case you want it for whatever here is an HTML file with...
- 09:08 PM Bug #1551: Create Front-Page SOPA Protest page
- Looks great, thanks Boone!
- 08:59 PM Bug #1551: Create Front-Page SOPA Protest page
- Looks awesome Boone -- thanks so much!
One minor request:
Under Learn More, please edit the text to the following:
... - 08:47 PM Bug #1551 (Reporter Feedback): Create Front-Page SOPA Protest page
- Time was ticking so I went ahead and did something myself. Check out the draft at cdev.gc.cuny.edu (you must be logge...
- 05:53 PM Bug #1551: Create Front-Page SOPA Protest page
- Chris's original forum post said that he had the HTML to share. That's what I want, if it's available. It will take m...
- 05:43 PM Bug #1551: Create Front-Page SOPA Protest page
- Here's the image Chris uploaded to the group
- 05:30 PM Bug #1551: Create Front-Page SOPA Protest page
- Chris, can you please provide the materials you created? (HTML or whatever it was). That way I won't have to start fr...
- 05:11 PM Bug #1551 (Resolved): Create Front-Page SOPA Protest page
- Based on the mock-up Chris has posted in the CAC Subcommittee, can you put together a protest page that should go liv...
- 06:19 PM Bug #1549 (Resolved): Add SOPA Protest Plugin
- Added the plugin in https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/34d4f6da3c18f462317075aff8b4ff2508d09b63
Instructions w... - 12:10 AM Bug #1549 (Resolved): Add SOPA Protest Plugin
- Per the decision of the subcommittee, please add a SOPA protest plugin to the site so that bloggers can use it. We sh...
- 06:13 PM Bug #1546 (Resolved): Unable to view comparative document history in BP Docs
- Turns out that my Chrome cache was just being really sticky. (Yet another reason I stopped using it.) Fixed in https:...
- 04:29 PM Bug #1546: Unable to view comparative document history in BP Docs
- I messed with it for over an hour this afternoon and couldn't figure it out. Webkit seems to prerender tables based o...
- 04:27 PM Bug #1546: Unable to view comparative document history in BP Docs
- FWIW, When I followed the link in Chrome I had the same problem.
Looking at it though, it's hard for me to imagine ...
2012-01-16
- 08:28 PM Bug #1546: Unable to view comparative document history in BP Docs
- Here's "a link":http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/journal-of-interactive-technology-and-pedagogy/docs/journals-of-int...
- 05:19 PM Bug #1546 (Reporter Feedback): Unable to view comparative document history in BP Docs
- I'm finding that, while the styling is not perfect, I'm unable to produce anything as radically wrong as what you're ...
- 08:23 PM Bug #1547: Spam Registrations
- Indeed. Thanks, Boone.
- 05:12 PM Bug #1547: Spam Registrations
- OK. I believe the relevant entries have been deleted.
- 04:55 PM Bug #1547: Spam Registrations
- Thanks, Boone. Some attention to the activity stream may be required -- I may be wrong, but I think that there are a ...
- 04:53 PM Bug #1547 (Resolved): Spam Registrations
- There appear to have been five spam user/blog registrations. I have marked them all as spam, which I think wraps up t...
- 04:49 PM Bug #1547: Spam Registrations
- I introduced this bug in the last release. It was related to #1515.
It's been fixed in https://github.com/castiron... - 08:17 PM Feature #1427 (Resolved): Plugin Request: jQuery Vertical Accordion Menu
- Added in https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/dc70ff2622685e835dd790e86710945d8450956e
- 08:11 PM Bug #1396 (Hold): InLine Google Docs Plugin Not Working
- In https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/e789bc69368a6e674b024c1ffe7d39490b0fdf23, I make a change that may (I'm hop...
- 06:14 PM Bug #1545 (Resolved): Problem with BP Doc Comment Edit Icon in Forums
- The plugin in question had a number of bugs. They should be fixed in https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/a4bb9304a...
- 05:04 PM Bug #1548 (Resolved): Tab indexes are wrong on wp-login.php
- Fixed in https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/f3b2ce620c8afdae23f69dffddeef8cb8bd479f4
- 04:54 PM Bug #1548 (Resolved): Tab indexes are wrong on wp-login.php
- The Log In and Register buttons are ending up between the username and password.
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