[bksvol-discuss] Re: validation notification
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:40:31 -0600
Hey Gerald et al,
A bit out of the loop here for a day or two... Just wanted to add that
email notifications in general aren't difficult to setup once you've done it a
couple of times. Keeping that in mind, I agree with Gerald's estimation on time
though, we wouldn't want the BookShare servers spamming some poor folks out
there *grin*. After all they're a bit bigger than my small website.
I also agree with Gerald's feel of how the tech team operates in regard to
Benetech.
BTW, Cheryl was still on her NM address back in December.
Got to run to class, later gang,
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald Hovas
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:56 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: validation notification
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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