Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Roles for 1.3-- feedback?

2007-08-09 Thread John Locke
Chris Travers wrote: > > > Hmm. I have worked in places where they don't want people to be > able to > look up home numbers/addresses of other employees... Also possibly for > outsourced bookkeepers... I would think inheriting the read_contact > right should cover this case, m

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Roles for 1.3-- feedback?

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Travers
On 8/9/07, John Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Chris Travers wrote: > > > > I think we should probably add some summary roles too which allow one > > to provide broad permissions across modules instead of having to > > create them all. Furthermore, we should be able to extend this (maybe >

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Roles for 1.3-- feedback?

2007-08-09 Thread John Locke
Chris Travers wrote: > > I think we should probably add some summary roles too which allow one > to provide broad permissions across modules instead of having to > create them all. Furthermore, we should be able to extend this (maybe > in 1.4) to be able to define custom roles with certain permis

[Ledger-smb-devel] Proposed guidelines for community-donated infrastructure

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Travers
Hi; For those of you on the public lists, this is designed to get public feedback. We on the core team are likely to make a decision on whether to formally adopt such guidelines in part based on community feedback and (to a larger extent) what we feel is necessary for the project. The purpose I

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Site for LedgerSMB Forum

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Travers
Just to expand on this-- the other reason for asking people to take credit for infrastructure beyond our control is that it shows people that we *do* have an active community who are involved in the pushing the project forward. It is nice to show that off a little :-) I will be submitting draft g

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Site for LedgerSMB Forum

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Travers
Hi Chris; Sorry for the misunderstandings. I never heard back from you so... maybe everyone is talking past eachother. My appologies too :-) The concerns were just that the web site design and domain name gave the impression that they were a part of our core infrastructure while the core team d

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Site for LedgerSMB Forum

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Bennett
Chris Travers wrote: > Hi; > > I think there are questions as to the utility of forums. I will give > my list of pros/cons here. > > Pros: > There is some question whether our target market will be happier on > forums as we move into more of the Quickbooks Basic market. Maybe. > > Cons: >

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Roles for 1.3-- feedback?

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Travers
On 8/9/07, John Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Wow. This looks very complicated, quite involved, and a pain in the butt > to administer. And my suggestions will probably make it worse... It is replacing the "hide menu options" buttons. I think we should probably add some summary ro

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Roles for 1.3-- feedback?

2007-08-09 Thread John Locke
Hi, Wow. This looks very complicated, quite involved, and a pain in the butt to administer. And my suggestions will probably make it worse... I'm not seeing anything wrong with the list, but I'm wondering about what's missing. What comes to mind are contact management things, like associating con

[Ledger-smb-devel] Roles for 1.3-- feedback?

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Travers
Some information is presumed public (meaning user-accessible), such as the structure of the CoA but not necessarily the balances or transactions. We could add permissions on these somewhere in 1.4 as well but the dependencies are likely to take a while to sort out. I: Contact Management: create_c

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Site for LedgerSMB Forum

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Travers
Hi; I think there are questions as to the utility of forums. I will give my list of pros/cons here. Pros: There is some question whether our target market will be happier on forums as we move into more of the Quickbooks Basic market. Maybe. Cons: Mailing lists allow for generally better co

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Site for LedgerSMB Forum

2007-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed W wrote: > Hi ion is frequently better than it is on most > mailing list archives). I guess it's just like the netnews guys who > moan that it's a much better system than email, and yet how many > projects reach for a newsgroup before they setup

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Site for LedgerSMB Forum

2007-08-09 Thread Ed W
Hi > I wasn't going to say anything, but now that Josh has I'll chime in too. I > agree with Josh's statement above, and I can add to it. One of my current > clients (a fairly popular distro vendor) actually tried to move to forums > about a year or so ago. The backlash was so bad that they ha

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Site for LedgerSMB Forum

2007-08-09 Thread Christopher Murtagh
On Thursday 09 August 2007 12:27:30 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > As a matter of fact, I usually require the existence of an open Forum > > before seriously considering any software for use or recommendation. > > To date it has been the perfect litmus test. Since then, I've never > > picked any dead-

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Site for LedgerSMB Forum

2007-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I completely agree with what you're doing -- as a contributor to other > open-source projects I can attest that mailing lists only benefit > project developers and some technologically-literate users. > Mainstream acce