Re: [Demexp-dev] 0.5 step closer to OCaml Summer of Code

2007-02-06 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Hi Ketty! On 2/6/07, ketty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, i have finaly started thinking about my application to the OCaml Summer thingy (about time!). There used to be a page on the demexp wiki with a lots of suggestions and ideas for future improvements but i can't find it anymore, is it gone

Re: [Demexp-dev] A simple path for delegation

2007-01-12 Par sujet Felix HENRY
On 1/12/07, David MENTRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jérémy, 2007/1/12, Jeremy Dubreil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In some cases this might lead to something we would wish to avoid. > Indeed, if a voter A tries to delegate the question Q to the other > participants then he can infer who is on a

Re: [Demexp-dev] Etch and demexp V0.8.3

2007-01-11 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Ok, Thanks Thomas, version 0.6.3 works fine on Etch by the way. Félix On 1/11/07, Thomas Petazzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Le Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:21:19 +0100, "Felix HENRY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I just installed Debian etch on my PC (to be more a

Re: [Demexp-dev] A simple path for delegation

2007-01-11 Par sujet Felix HENRY
> If Yes I don't understand what > happens when > someone who has delegated his vote recieves a delegation on the same > question. I did not thought at this issue. :-) But the answer is quite simple : we *know* that the participant who receives a delegation has delegated his vote and to whom,

Re: [Demexp-dev] A simple path for delegation

2007-01-11 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Hi David, Hello, I thought about the delegation system of demexp and I think I'll try to implement a simple scheme, following Jérémy's original idea: implement a kind of vote Vote_as("delegate_name") in each question[1]. I just re-read this approach. Althought I do not understand everything

[Demexp-dev] Etch and demexp V0.8.3

2007-01-11 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Hi all, and happy new year! I just installed Debian etch on my PC (to be more accurate: Fred did!) and I'm wondering about the status of a demexp 0.8 package for etch. Does it exist? If yes what is the line I should add to my source.list file? Thanks, Félix

[Demexp-dev] Compiling 0.8

2006-12-07 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Hi all, I'm trying to complile demexp client 0.8.3. I've got a Debian Sarge. To this end I have to compile ocaml-gettext-0.2.0. To compile ocaml-gettext-0.2.0 I need to compile camomile. However camomile (0.7.1) won't compile: I get a long list of errors of the type: "public/uText.mli:31:14: car

Re: [Demexp-dev] Account creation documented and some remarks

2006-10-15 Par sujet Felix HENRY
You don't do any identity verification or something do you David? No, he does not: on the longer run we will ask people to provide proofs of existence (birth certificate) and we warn those who ask for an account that they will have to provide it at some later stage.   Félix __

Re: [Demexp-dev] Account creation documented and some remarks

2006-10-15 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Hello David and Augustin, I understand there are technical issues to the problem of logins, however, I am concerned with the complexity of it from the point of view of the user. Once again, the whole point of having a web client is to make it easier for the average (read: not computer-proficient)

Re: second batch (Re: [Demexp-dev] New test Drupal site open.

2006-10-05 Par sujet felix . henry
Hi Augustin, Questions will be indexed by search engines and it will drive traffic to the site. I didn't think about this aspect, that's simply brilliant. Félix ___ Demexp-dev mailing list Demexp-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/

[Demexp-dev] Another feature for the wishlist

2006-09-18 Par sujet felix . henry
This one is on the longer run: It would be nice to be able to create one's own demexp "instance" from the website. Thus every club, association, organisation could easily create its own "local democracy" service, for internal purpose. Of course this is quite difficult (how to re-start the server

Re: [Demexp-dev] New test Drupal site open.

2006-09-16 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Hi there, My go for the remarks on the Drupal client. I agree with David's suggestion about login information creation. When browsing through the questions, some display the winning answer, and some don't. Example here: http://demexp.ouvaton.org/taxonomy/term/166 only question 181 has a winning

Re: [Demexp-dev] Bug: classification system (a:, ab: etc.) does not match alphabetical order

2006-04-17 Par sujet Felix HENRY
> > >One possible fix: could you try to put spaces to fill-up the part before >the column, (like "a :education")? > > > I tried but it doesn't solved the problem. By the way, (this relating to the "connection" bug), I did no longer have connection problems today. Felix ___

[Demexp-dev] Bug: classification system (a:, ab: etc.) does not match alphabetical order

2006-04-15 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Hi all, a little bug: the "fake hierarchical" classification system of tags has a problem. The system consists in using for instance: a:education aa:maths ab:physics b:ecology etc. However, it seems that the ':' character is after 'a' 'b' etc. because I get the following order: aa:maths ab:physi

[Demexp-dev] Is this a known bug? Double connection necessary

2006-04-15 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Hi, when I use demexp client V 0.6.3 on the official server, I first get a "Unable to connect to server: Connexion refusée" message. Then the client opens. If I close it and open it again, I get the same message. However, if I open it, open the "preference" window, close it by clicking on "cance

[Demexp-dev] sample html and css files for demexp client

2006-02-20 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Dear all, You will find attached to this mail a sample html file and a sample css style file that are used for the demexp client. If you want to play with them, put them in the same directory and open the html file. In particular, I know there is a problem with Microsoft IE because it does not in

Re: [Demexp-dev] Current status of development

2006-02-20 Par sujet felix . henry
[3] By the way, Félix, could you post it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have to get back to my home computer to do it so I'll send it tonight. ___ Demexp-dev mailing list Demexp-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/demexp-dev

Re: [Demexp-dev] Current status of development

2006-02-20 Par sujet felix . henry
- implement a way to keep permanently voted and seen question for each user (much like the GTK client is keeping this information in ~/.demexp/ directory). I have not many ideas how to implement that. The marcos machine has a MySQL server available, but I'm completely new to those SQL t

[Demexp-dev] Bug when creating/renaming tags on official serveur

2006-02-13 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Here is the bug When I create a new tag I get this message in a distinct window (not in the status bar below the tag creation window): Unknown error message (Rpc.Rpc_server(3)). However when I reload the list of tags & question, I see that the tag has been created. When I rename a tag, I get the

Re: [Demexp-dev] Any ideas to manipulate trees on a web page?

2006-02-07 Par sujet Felix HENRY
David MENTRE a écrit : >Hello, > >I'm trying to find a way to implement in HTML a tree folding/unfolding, >similar to the GTK widget Tree View[1]... and I haven't many ideas. > >Have you pointers on web interface to manipulate trees that you find >nice? For example, what do you think of gmane int

[Demexp-dev] Web app frameworks

2005-12-30 Par sujet felix . henry
Hi all, I made a list of web app frameworks that I think are worth considering for the demexp web client devt, on the english demexp wiki: http://demexp.org/en/doku.php?id=web_client_development_framework It's a wiki so feel free to update, modify, etc! Felix __

Re: [Demexp-dev] Which architecture and languages for next developments?

2005-12-29 Par sujet felix . henry
My own feeling is that it is definitely worth spending some time checking frameworks, Would you help me establish such a list of frameworks? Sure, I'll start by having a look and post a summary. I'll try and do that tomorrow. For info I go on holidays (next wednesday) and I'm still working

Re: [Demexp-dev] Which architecture and languages for next developments?

2005-12-29 Par sujet felix . henry
Dear all, Quoting David MENTRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: At last demexp meeting, we have decided to focus developments on a web interface to help the spreading of demexp. We should face now the choice of architecture and language to accomplish this. [...] wheel, especially regarding web technol

[Demexp-dev] Speaking about ajax

2005-12-24 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Dear All, The other day, during the demexp meeting, I mentionned an ajax based GPL email client. Here it is: http://www.roundcube.net/ There is a demo available here, http://demo.roundcube.net/ with: Username: roundcube_demo Password: rcubedemo Félix ___

[Demexp-dev] Customizing TEXTAREA in web client

2005-10-19 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Dear David, I'm currently working on the web client look and I have a 2 questions: 1/ Some information like the Question list is embedded in the html file only when it actually exist (that is, when a tag has been selected and the relevant buton clicked). I would also like to put some html there w

Re: [Demexp-dev] Web interface / Pb with wdialog configure

2005-10-16 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Dear David, Thanks to your wdialog install guideline I installed it succesfully, compiled demexp web client as well, and the cgi scripts are now running fine locally on my machine. Thanks, Félix ___ Demexp-dev mailing list Demexp-dev@nongnu.org http

Re: [Demexp-dev] Web interface / Pb with wdialog configure

2005-10-16 Par sujet Felix HENRY
>As put in a previous post on this list, you need to compile >inifiles. For details, see: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/demexp-dev@nongnu.org/msg00149.html > > Well, I definitively would have missed this mail! Thanks, I'll let you know when it works. Félix _

[Demexp-dev] Web interface / Pb with wdialog configure

2005-10-16 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Hi all, I'm curently trying to build the web interface from demexp source. I have a problem when doing the configure: everything goes smooth until Inifiles checking (see below). I tried to look for an Inifiles-related package name and all I found was libconfig-inifiles-perl , already installed on

[Demexp-dev] Did not receive the announcement about web client.

2005-10-06 Par sujet felix . henry
Hi David and all, I talked to Fred today and he told me about the new experimental version of the demexp web client. I was surprised since I never read the announcement email. That's why you got no feedback from me. I checked and I actually never recieved the announcement email. Is it just me or

[Demexp-dev] OS X demexp problem with archive

2005-09-26 Par sujet felix . henry
Hi everybody! It seems that the archive of the Mac OS X demexp client is corrupt. This was notices by Philippe who wanted to try it at home. I then tried to decompress it under windows (CRC failed) and under linux (same). Since it's been uploaded directly on the wiki I suspect something like bad

Re: [Demexp-dev] What to check in an HTTP URL?

2005-09-19 Par sujet Felix HENRY
David MENTRE a écrit : >Hello, > >For the clients of demexp, I need to check that an HTTP URL given by the >user is reasonably correct: not overly long, correct set of characters, >etc. > >Any idea of a regexp and/or things to check? Any pointer? > >Yours, >d. > > I'm not sur it's the most effi

[Demexp-dev] Re: Possible fix for the "after classification" bug - Fix confirmed

2005-09-14 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Dear all, I finally compiled version 0.7 thanks to David's modification of the configure file, and tested it. Good news: the bug is out! For historical (!) purpose: we discussed this over the phone with David, and what happened in version 0.6.1 is that the tag selected before opening the classifi

Re: [Demexp-dev] Possible fix for the "after classification" bug

2005-09-14 Par sujet Felix HENRY
>You should use --no-web option at ./configure time. > > > I did. From the start I'm using --no-web --no-server but that's when I get the message about wd-xmlcompiler Félix ___ Demexp-dev mailing list Demexp-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.

Re: [Demexp-dev] Possible fix for the "after classification" bug

2005-09-13 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Hi everyone (I learned my lesson:-) I'm still trying to compile the client, version 0.7, to check the (ex-)classification bug. I'm running through ./configure and get ocamlfind: Package `wd-xmlcompiler' not found I looked for info in the README and on the web but couldn't find which packag

Re: [Demexp-dev] Organization of tags

2005-09-09 Par sujet Felix HENRY
David & John, I support your statement that the tag organization is purely an add-on service, and that as such it should be kept separate from the server software. Moreover, as you said it "carries" a lot of political meaning. It is mostly a "comfort" service, however as a demexp client user I fe

[Demexp-dev] Re: [demexp-fr] Résultat suprenant pour la quest ion 22

2005-09-08 Par sujet Felix HENRY
David MENTRE a écrit : >Salut à tous, > >Je suis surpris par le résultat de la question 22 "Comment gérer la >classification des questions dans demexp ?" (tag demexp). > >La réponse gagnante est : 3. Pourquoi classifier les questions ? On >devrait avoir un repertoires avec toutes les questions "en

[Demexp-dev] Organization of tags

2005-09-08 Par sujet felix . henry
Hi, When using the client recently, and due to the growing number of tags, I've become a bit frustrated by their "flat list" organization. I took the liberty of writing my thoughts about a possible approach on the wiki, here: http://www.demexp.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=hierarchy_of_tags Let me kn

Re: [Demexp-dev] Mockup of a web interface for demexp

2005-08-15 Par sujet felix . henry
Hi David, I tried the mockup and everything works fine with me! Except: The "add vote" button does not modify the current page to fill in the vote list, I guess it's not implemented yet. Congrats! Felix Hello, You'll find at http://demexp.dyndns.org/ a mockup of a web interface for demexp t

Re: [Demexp-dev] And now, what for demexp--dev--0.7?

2005-08-10 Par sujet Felix HENRY
Hi David and all, Concerning the fact that it may be difficult for a newbie to set up its client, I thing it may have more to do with the process of connecting as "root", creating its own account, reconnecting, and so on... Once we have a server where accounts are created by administrators, this

Re: [Demexp-dev] A protocol proposal to track modifications on server

2005-06-16 Par sujet Felix HENRY
> >Do you think it is an issue if the three timestamp zones (for questions, >tags and participants) are gzipped separately? > > > Not at all. Gzip is pretty quick at capturing the statistics when it is re-initialized so the impact will be negligible (especially when the file gets bigger). Fé

Re: [Demexp-dev] A protocol proposal to track modifications on server

2005-06-16 Par sujet felix . henry
Dear David, Here are my comments: 1/ Concerning your proposed approach -I think that it is probably most efficient in terms of bandwidth. I would recommend using a binary tree (instead of 10-tree you seemed to suggest in your mail) because I would intuitively guess it is optimal in terms of band

Re: [Demexp-dev] Ok for not displaying author of questions?

2005-06-08 Par sujet felix . henry
Quoting David MENTRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I can't remember if we have taken a decision on this point or not: should I remove the display of author of each question or not in the client (and of course underlying protocol)? Personally, I would *not* display author of questions, as the imp

[Fwd: Re: [Demexp-dev] Which timestamp at each modification?]

2005-06-07 Par sujet Felix HENRY
--- Begin Message --- David MENTRE a écrit : >Hello, > >For the caching mechanism, I will need to store a timestamp each time a >question is modified on the server. This timestamp is communicated to >the client, that uses it internally to determine if something has >changed since last time it con

Re: [Demexp-dev] some thinking on the client: how to improve its usability and attract programmers

2005-06-07 Par sujet felix . henry
Hi David, here are my thoughts about your proposals, - programming language: Python vs. OCaml Since Thomas has made the RPC mechanism available in Python, it is now conceivable to write some user interface in Python, using e.g. PyGTK. Python is much more known than OCaml. Of course, all