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2007-11-12 11:14:58 PM
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So many persons have ideas about so many different aspects of
the QualityCentral voting system and so very few have a good
perspective of the big picture and the goals. I would hate to
be commissioned with the task of redesigning or even improving
the system. It could never ending feature creep. --JohnH
 

John Herbster wrote:
the process. That's exactly what we need.
- Leo
 

"Leo Siefert" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote
of the goals, before we start proposing the mechanics.
--JohnH
 

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John Herbster wrote:
--
Alex
 

John Herbster wrote:
can make sure that nothing ever changes, since committees only ever
decide on changing things when everyone agrees. (I work for the state
senate, so you might consider me an expert on this process.)
Nick and Chris have already stated pretty clearly what the goals are,
and they are the people in a position to do this - it's their job.
They want to see greater participation and a larger number of votes on
reports. Look at Chris' last post in the thread preceding this one for
some good justification.
group you will find that we (users) have proposed changing the
mechanics many times over the years.
Now Chris has proposed a changes and asked for comments. But your
reaction seems to be suggesting that we just stop and go back five
years to a beginning of the discussion.
If we are too afraid to try something new then we all lose.
- Leo
 

"Leo Siefert" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote
I missed that. Can you, please, point me (and
others) to a concise statement of the goals of
the QualityCentral voting.
Thank you, JohnH
 

Markus.Humm wrote:
No news I can see since October 2, 2007:
From: "Lori M Olson [TeamB]" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >
Subject: Re: Right justified comments in QC web interface ever going to
befixed?
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:19:13 -0600
Message-ID: <4702ee0f$ XXXX@XXXXX.COM >
Oops - on October 12, she says it's being written in 3rd Rail:
From: "Lori M Olson [TeamB]" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >
Subject: Re: Vote -5 to +5
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:02:29 -0600
Message-ID: <470f8c84$ XXXX@XXXXX.COM >
--
-Brion
There's no such thing as 'one, true way;'
- Mercedes Lackey
 

Hello,
as a first start I'd try to repair the web client as this even got worse
at some point a few months agao as one can neither rate nor vote with it
right now. Also changing something entered or adding an attachment seems
either impossible or broken. I think these things could be fixed without
much discussion, can they?
Greetings
Markus
 

Lori M Olson [TeamB] wrote:
be curious if you'd still have picked it over JBuilder or, heck, notepad,
given the benefit of hindsight.
--
-Brion
There's no such thing as 'one, true way;'
- Mercedes Lackey
 

Brion L. Webster wrote:
test deployment servers. Plan is to have something that you can rate
and/or vote with up first, followed by other fun stuff in fairly short
order.
--
Regards,
Lori Olson [TeamB]
 

Brion L. Webster wrote:
But...
One would not use Jbuilder for this, since it was a Rails project. And,
if what you are asking is... would I rather have done it in Java?
Absolutely not.
If you are talking about choice of IDE... JBuilder doesn't support
Rails. The options include (but are not limited to) Netbeans,
RadRails/Aptana, IntelliJ IDEA, TextMate (I am a Mac user), and Komodo.
I choose 3rdRail over all of those at present. QC is not my only Rails
project. I've been working with Ruby on Rails for over 2 years (and
bugging CodeGear about producing a Rails IDE for most of that time). I
have personal experience with RadRails and TextMate and Emacs and (yech)
Dreamweaver for Rails development. Definitely prefer 3rdRail over all
those other choices.
--
Regards,
Lori Olson [TeamB]
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John Herbster wrote:
necessarily to publish it, so I was not referring to a manifesto
posted on the door of the cathedral but to a number of separate
comments in their postings.
One goal from Chris initial post on changing the voting process:
in the above thread:
alternative proposal does not meet the requirements (posted 11/7):
statistics from the voting and the current system does not do that.
There has clearly been discussion about this and Chris and Nick are on
the same page - they need more users supplying more information in the
voting process. They also need more sysops to help work through the
backlog of unopened reports. Those are goals and they make sense. I
see no reason to question them now, especially among users.
They asked for comments on the mechanics that they proposed to solve
the problem - that's why the discussion has been about mechanics. And
they have clearly indicated the goals they wish to achieve.
- Leo
 

Lori M Olson [TeamB] wrote:
but I confess I don't know - is there a Java On Rails option?
the QC Web Client, partly because I have an impression that you were a
JBuilder nomination to TeamB. That could be entirely incorrect to begin
with. I'm also a little fuzzy as to what types of solution RoR is
appropriate for. Of course, to a RoR convert, all problems are merely
flat spots waiting for railroad tracks to be laid down. <g>
The other thing I'd be curious to know is what pain points or interesting
things you've found, using 3rd Rail. I quite like David Clegg's blog on
interesting things he's found with ECO, or Blackfish SQL, as he's
implementing various projects. Not necessarily casting aspersions, just
things that didn't work as expected, and how he worked around them or
changed his method of thinking. I think those kind of insights would be
valuable for other CodeGear customers. Then again, 3rd Rail could be the
first perfect IDE!
--
-Brion
There's no such thing as 'one, true way;'
- Mercedes Lackey
 

Brion L. Webster wrote :
things easier than you'd expected.
That and I'd expect to see ways that using the IDE
changed your thinking or approach to a problem.
Brad.
 

Brion L. Webster used his keyboard to write :
about words and the kids would have you doing
10 pushups. 8:-)
Brad.