[Patina] Re: feedback

[Earl G.P.]

Cheers. Just to confirm though - is us using shared workspaces a problem? 

I will use the forum for reporting stuff. Thanks,

G

-----Original Message-----
From: Enrico Costanza [mailto:ec at ecs.soton.ac.uk] 
Sent: 13 March 2013 13:08
To: Southampton-specific mailing list for PATINA project
Cc: Earl G.P.
Subject: Re: [Patina] Re: feedback

Sorry for the confusion: sharing works, but when you share the workspace owner has full access and the others are like "guests" with limited access.

Enrico


On 12/03/2013 16:43, Earl G.P. wrote:
> 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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