Fall 2007

See milestone report here.
AJAX tagging is almost done! Finally it will be nice to use!
I kinda like my icons for PDR, TXT, and DOC files. It's a nice feature to have.

What did I do this week?

 

Tasks

Link to your milestones? We can't tell what you've done if we can't find it.

Milestone found here
There are a lot of methods in the backend that are exposed to the frontend; Dave and I have been working to identify which permissions need to be checked for each of these methods and then ensuring that those permissions are checked. Now that the new backend object structure has finally been approved and checked in, we can query permissions on an object in the backend in a uniform manner.

See my comments on Sohum's journal; feel free to use Trac, but you must use Sharepoint for milestones. A list of tasks is not the same as milestones with a specific due date. --Chelsea

My milestones can be found here: Trac

The tickets owned by myself are 6, 99-102 See my comments on Sohum's and Aaron's journals. --Chelsea

In addition to these tickets I have been working with Hubert Lee on the Access control system.

For number 6 (testing platform), I've done all that has been required of it, and its job is currently being passed on to be completed, but as I understand, it's still being discussed as to whom it is getting passed to next.

For 99-102, I've started making wireframes as Sohum requested - I've spoken with him and he will get those on Wednesday.

As for Access control - it will be done well before tomorrow morning.

Milestones can be found here.

I am feeling fairly satisfied with the state of the security on the site. See Uncompleted Milestone section for more details on what is left,



Also, I posted a ton of stuff on Trac to try to get most of the remaining features and such on it. Ironically, the only ones that are not on Trac are my own (as far as I know.) I'll be switching that over in the coming week.

We improved the functionality of the implicit trust system and the authority systems.
We also added support for new types of relationships at the request of other teams.

-Tested for search bugs. By doing so I found a few new bugs, such as odd number of (unique) words breaking search (except one) and tag searching requiring words to be within the same tag. I have figured out a solution to the tag thing though it'll talk some work to get right, so nothing is checked in yet. I also have an idea for where the odd number thing is coming from, but still trying to track down *exactly* where it is.

-Talked with Jeeyun some on trying to track down the entity searching, and added a new selection parameter for her to search for entities within a trust network.

-Further looked into notification, but no real progress was made there. I need to talk to Brad some more about it (which I've discussed meeting with him for), but we decided I'd try to fix search first.

Created a list of tasks for Derek to put into to Trac, including all of the remaining features on our planned feature list.

Wrote user case / functionality specs for several UI tasks on Trac, including:
- messaging
- payment
- content reply
- suggestion box
- report user/content
- admin interface for reports and suggestions
- sponsorship interface elements

For the "In Progress" items in the milestone list:

• No decision has been made on whether to upload any kind of file, but TXT, PDF, and DOC uploads have been completed.
• Tag deletion and global tag creation use AJAX now. Image tags are in the works.
• XSS tagging bugs have been taken care of with the HTMLCleaner and I have some javascript checks for image tags that will become server-side checks once they become AJAX.

Video player changed and I hadn't done too much on video tags, so now I'll start over with Sohum's pretty new player.

I still have yet to produce a diagram of the entire system. As I mentioned last week, I think this is getting delayed, perhaps indefinitely.

I need to get the hosting situation figured out.

There remains a lot of individual tasks that it would be nice if I could do, as I've taken on the slack of things that nobody really owns, but we'll see how that goes.

1. Backend of custom display content. I planed to use Properties to store the GUIDs of the content, but it doesn't work. Now I use the data stream for blurb to store the information and that works. Now I need to store the Guids in properties or somewhere else.
2. Now all the content will be shown in User Profile page, and I need to show only the selected content in Profile page. This part could be done as soon as I get (1) done.

- The said interfaces don't function now because the communication with backend is broken
- I haven't worked on ID verification part, which is linking a person's account with his/her paypal account.

I still need to put the calls to check permissions at the beginning of the method, but that appears to be all.

Personal Milestones

• Designing a payment interface. I have the basic idea--Paypal style (like the customer wanted it)--for viewing transactions but still have a lot to think about with regards to the UI for when a user encounters paid content. It doesn't help that the backend doesn't seem to have too much support for such content, yet.
• Email verification. Again, this needs cooperation and communication between backend and UI to figure out a way to get it working. I think with the messaging system the backend may well end up doing the bulk of the work and UI will just have to set up the pages that the user encounters. I haven't been as nagging about getting this done and email doesn't seem to work, so I'll try harder next week.
• Preferences interface. Again, I've been waiting on other teams for this with no success. I'm going to approach them more explicitly this week.

I have more testing to do on the groups before I commit. This should be done soon.

99-102 is not done, but is forthcoming - As previously mentioned, I have spoken with Sohum about this and it will be completed by Wednesday.

There are still a few things I want to look into in terms of site security, including double checking that a few problems have been fixed, such as the javascript in tags. Also with that, I'm wondering if there might be a security problem with older bugs, so I'll need to look into that.

For trust sorting, I have not made any progress, mostly because I only remembered about it when Rae told me on Sunday.

There are still a number of issues with the sorting procedure, namely if there are OR nodes, with sorting parameters deeper in the tree than the OR node.
We also need to make some specifications for the user interface for the components we're working on.

-Notifications is still mostly incomplete (on my part). I did talk with Brad though, as mentioned above, and we decided fixing search is more of a priority as I'm the only one left on search (though Derek still needs to do one or two things for sorting) and understand it best, so can track down the bugs easier

There is still more work to be done on how Sponsorships works (thankfully the relationship model is the only thing needed to support it in the backend). Mainly the question is how the pricing will be determined for sponsorship.

There are some TODO sections in the code that I have been tasked to clean up that I haven't gotten to yet.

I still need to run through the task list again and make sure all the UI elements are spec'ed out as far as their functionality to the user.

Great report.

I always write these things in a separate text editor and then copy and paste. Today for some reason I did it in the browser, and for the first time it didn't submit properly and I lost everything. I guess that'll teach me.

Link to milestone objectives for the week? --Chelsea

Link to milestone objectives for the week? --Chelsea