[bksvol-discuss] Re: validation notification
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:22:08 -0800 (PST)
Interesting, Gerald. Thanks for the explanation.
Cindy
--- Gerald Hovas <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jill,
>
> Informing the validator when a book is accepted or
> rejected is not
> difficult, but it's not a trivial change either.
> Even small Engineering
> efforts cost money and have to be accounted for in
> the budget due to the
> fact that even simple changes need proper testing
> then operations must
> update the Bookshare system to include those
> changes.
>
> I would also expect there to have to be a second
> message created
> specifically for the validator rather than just
> copying the validator on the
> message to the submitter since not every volunteer
> would want their name and
> e-mail address to be made available to the other
> volunteer.
>
> My background is in a different area of Software
> Engineering, but I would
> guess that this change would take somewhere from 2
> to 5 days to implement,
> test, and release depending on whether or not there
> is still someone there
> who is familiar with the code which is causing the
> messages to be sent out
> in the first place, and nothing unforseen takes
> place during testing and
> release. I know my estimate probably seems far
> excessive to many of you,
> but it's never trivial when updating a working
> system which needs to remain
> up and running 24/7. The reason I would expect for
> the minimum time to make
> the change to be 2 days, is that I would personally
> not trust releasing a
> change which had been tested for less than a couple
> of days. I would also
> consider having the second message first sent to a
> fixed e-mail address at
> Bookshare and have the new message contain the
> validator's e-mail address
> appended to the subject in order to verify that the
> system is pulling up the
> correct destination address for the message and not
> sending it to the wrong
> address before fully releasing the change.
>
> I can reassure the list that Janice and Gustavo are
> aware that volunteers
> would like this change because I have discussed it
> with them, and I believe
> they have even gone as far as to look into what it
> would cost to implement
> it. The problem has been the lack of funding and
> choosing which changes to
> pay for first when more funding for Engineering
> changes becomes available.
> As you can probably guess, there are many changes on
> Bookshare's list of
> changes they need/want to make, and there is only so
> much money to allocate
> for Engineering changes due to Bookshare being a
> nonprofit organization.
> It's my impression, too, that Bookshare doesn't have
> its own dedicated
> Engineering team, but shares one with all of
> Benetech's projects. If this
> is the case, then Bookshare must compete with other
> projects for
> Engineering's time and resources, as well as come up
> with the funds to make
> the changes to their system.
>
> HTH
>
> Gerald
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Jill O'Connell
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 3:17 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] validation notification
>
>
> For those of you who are really computer savvy, how
> difficult would it be
> for a copy of the approval notice sent to the person
> who scanned a book to
> be sent to the validator as well? From previous
> posts on this list, I think
> we would all appreciate having this information. In
> the meantime I will let
> Jim know that I have validated Pay It Forward. I
> have submitted Ya-Yas in
> Bloom and would appreciate knowing when it has been
> uploaded if one of you
> on the list take it. Thanks all. Jill
>
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