[ecidadania-dev] Re: Current status and search of new features
- From: Oscar Carballal Prego <oscar.carballal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ecidadania-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:22:20 +0200
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 20:33:22 +0530, Praveen Kumar <praveen97uma@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> HI Oscar!
>
> There can be a facility for users to have a chat between them (one-one
or a
> group chat).
+1, something like Facebook chat?
> I did a google search for chat apps that we can just hook into
e-cidadania
> but looks like
> there are not much. I found a few django based personal chat projects
that
> people have written, so if we
> decide to have a chat app, we will have to extend and customize them.
If
> we want something to be
> written from scratch, twisted and tornado are good choice for networking
> libraries.
The best would be to reuse some project, but as you said, there are not
much out there.
> Some links:
>
http://pythonhaven.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/django-powered-ajax-chat-part-1/
> http://code.google.com/p/django-jqchat/
> [Tornado] http://www.tornadoweb.org/
>
http://blogger.popcnt.org/2008/01/django-evserver-asynchronous-server-for.html
> http://www.skitoy.com/p/django-tornado-chat/305
> [Twisted library] http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Oscar Carballal Prego <
> oscar.carballal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I am excited to say that we're running out of tickets in the trac. Most
>> of
>> the bugs and inprovements are already fixed, so here is the planning I
>> propose:
>>
>> As you may know, we're currently on the version 0.1.5. The issue fixes
>> needed to set it as a RC (release candidate) are:
>>
>> - Ticket #30: Check all the views in search of inconsistencies
regarding
>> permissions. For a full list of the expected permissions and user roles
>> please ask me.
>> - Ticket #50: Fix the calendar module. The current problem is that if
>> the
>> translation is activated, the jquery calendar module does not activate
>> the
>> links towards the real calendar that lists the events and viceversa.
>> - Ticket #55: The debate module does not have permissions regarding
the
>> manipulation of the notes. Everyone can modify the notes and move them.
>> - Ticket #166: The "Add debate" form. Currently Tamara Atanasoska is
>> working on it. ATM to create a debate it has to be done from the
>> administration. Most people asks about "columns" and "rows" and stuff.
>> The
>> debate module works mostly as a scrum board, you can see an example of
a
>> scrum board here: https://scrumy.com/demo
>>
>> We expect to have the 0.1.5 release soon (before the GSoC coding
period),
>> unless some other release blocker ticket comes out (at the time of
>> writing
>> this email a bug in django 1.4 raised).
>>
>> Once 0.1.5 has reached RC quality we need to start the documentation
>> update process and the strings translation. The translation is managed
>> through the Transifex platform [1] and the merging process of the
>> catalogs
>> in e-cidadania will be handled by myself at least for now.
>>
>> Search of new features
>>
>> I think we can start proposing new features to improve the platform.
>> Currently there are a few basic features that at the end of the GSoC
>> should
>> allow the citizens to complete a participative process using a
determined
>> workflow (debates->proposals->voting) and that will allow us to release
>> the
>> 0.2 version (the first public stable) by December.
>>
>> Just think about tools that can be used:
>>
>> a) In the platform, to improve communications or realtions between
>> citizens
>> b) Applications that can be applied to participative democracy, either
to
>> develop new work methodologies, or improve the current workflow.
>>
>> Features I propose:
>>
>> - Personal messaging between users
>> - Possibility of publishing a proposal in a social network (needs
>> discussion regarding publishing in private spaces)
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Oscar Carballal Prego
>>
>>
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Oscar Carballal Prego
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