[thesite] voting application

.jeff jeff at members.evolt.org
Mon Oct 29 23:30:27 CST 2001


michele,

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> From: Michele Foster
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> Ok, fair enough .. and most of your other reasons too.
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cool.

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> However, what are the implications of adding yet more
> code to the current CMS to facilitate a voting
> application?
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minimal to the cms as a whole.  any implications that would arise would come
from placing some of the app in the sidebar.  this isn't a necessity though.

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> i.e. where's the voting going to appear? Similar to
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it depends.  there will probably be a vote/survey listing like a category
listing page that displays all the active votes/surveys based on the user's
priv ordered from oldest to newest (gotta encourage the old stuff to be
voted on).  it will also probably have a listing of closed surveys/votes
with links to view their results ordered newest to oldest like articles and
displaying only the most recent 10.

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> articles?  On the side bar?  How many additional queries
> to the DB will be required on the front page (and
> subsequent pages) to display the voting information?
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i see it only needing 1 query to add it to the sidebar.

not sure how many for the actual voting/survey application itself.  that's
not as much of an issue.

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> Not being argumentative .. I'm just curious if we really
> want to add more functionality to code that you've
> already said should be cleaned up and rethought in the
> future.
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more cleaned up than rethought.  i don't have a problem adding more to it so
long as it's done with performance in mind.  alot of the recent stuff that's
been added hasn't gotten that treatment and the processing times have
suffered because of that.

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> Would it not make more sense to leave the voting app. as
> a stand-alone application?
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no, i don't think so.

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> We can still offer it as an open source project.
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don't really care either way.

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> I'm not sure I want it (the voting app.) so tightly
> woven into the CMS...
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in contrast, i'd like to see it as part of the cms.

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> Would a unique *e.o. site suffice?
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yuck, no.  we already have too many subsites.

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> Does anyone have McCreath's stylized version (URL) of
> the voting app handy?  (actually, I'll cc this to David)
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http://members.evolt.org/mccreath/evolt/evoltpolling.html

i'll have to read over his proposal a bit more before i'll know if i want to
go with that or something different (built from my experience with building
vote/survey apps).

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> | 4) we can take advantage of things already in
> |    place like login and priv levels.
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> ueue should take care of this problem though, for
> all .e.o. sites.
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when/if it gets built, *then* i'll use that in my analysis on what i think
the best solution is.  as for this app, even if ueue was done, i'd still say
it belongs in w.e.o.

thanks,

.jeff

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