[Patina] Re: feedback

[Enrico Costanza]

Hi Graeme,

I just had a chat with Mike.

You wrote:
> The first people are going to start using PoN this week. In order for them
> to give feedback would you mind if we used PoN rather than sending lots of
> emails? I will set up a workspace that all my group can write to, including
> you, and that way you can see it developing? OK?
That's a great idea to get lots of content in PoN

BUT

the system is currently supporting only one main user per workspace and 
other people as commenters.
This means that it would not work very well for what you want, and I am 
a bit nervous that trying that would undermine people's confidence in 
single use mode, which could be a disaster. :-(

(this is basically because we have single-user-plus mode rather than 
proper multi-user)

Instead, a good alternative could be to use the forum:
https://tina.ecs.soton.ac.uk/sotondh/forum/

would that be ok?

Thanks,
Enrico

On 12/03/2013 14:46, Michael Jewell wrote:
> Hi!
>
> That should be ok - if you set up a workspace, and then add the users
> as 'commenters', they should be able to create comments in the system.
> That commenter role is a slightly newer feature, so will be good to
> keep a careful eye on it (the original intention was to allow 1 user
> the role of 'commenter' on another user's workspace, if I recall).
>
> Re backups: I have regular database backups happening (at roughly 4am
> every day), and the server software is backed up roughly every 4 hours
> (this includes any uploaded files). If a universe were to get
> corrupted, I could roll them back to a prior version. If something
> Horrible were to happen, the content of all notes/entries is kept in
> the backup, and we should be able to 'replay' it - or at the worst
> case recover the data. The backups are stored on a server that is
> itself backed up regularly.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Earl G.P. <graeme.earl at soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>>
>>
>> The first people are going to start using PoN this week. In order for them
>> to give feedback would you mind if we used PoN rather than sending lots of
>> emails? I will set up a workspace that all my group can write to, including
>> you, and that way you can see it developing? OK?
>>
>>
>>
>> Can I also confirm (again!) that the server that this is running on is
>> backed up each night and that their work is therefore safe?
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>>
>> Graeme
>>
>>
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>


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Dr Enrico Costanza
Lecturer, Agents, Interaction, Complexity Group
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ

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