[Patina] Re: feedback

[Earl G.P.]

Oh :-( They have already all set up shared workspaces as these are on the side bar. Should I not be using these at all?

On 12 Mar 2013, at 16:40, "Enrico Costanza" <ec at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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