Proposal

Enhance /shared/community-member to display additional information about a user that is currently only displayed for a site wide admin, depending on the setting of a parameter in acs-subsite. The additional information would be

• Bugs (display_member_bugs)
• Forums (display_member_forums)
• ETP (display_member_etp_content)
I think the rest of the information is not useful for any outsider. This step is proposed for 5.1

In a second step for 5.2 the display should be changed to a template::list with pagination and the following information:

• Type of object (Bug,Forum,ETP,...)
• Title of object along with a direct URL to access this object (which will only work in 5.2) directly
• Time of object creation
Obviously you should be able to order by all three information types and filter by date range and type of object.

Once approved, I'm willing to work on step 1 and look for funding for step 2.

Reasoning

After the upgrade some community members have been arguing that this information is critical for a community toolkit and should be displayable to users. I agree with this, but for the toolkit there needs to be the option to turn it off.

I agree with the goals of this TIP. I suggest we hold off until 5.2 since that will support title of all objects from acs_objects table and make this sort of feature easier to implement. The reason it was taken out is that the code did not discriminate between uninteresting objects and interesting objects so you ended up with a display of thousands of objects that should not be displayed to users. Definitely it should be configurable what object types are interesting.

What was taken out of the OpenACS 4.x toolkit a long time ago, and what was taken out of openacs.org last weekend, are two completely different things.

The huge enormous random list of a bunch of mostly useless objects related to the user was first added in ACS 4.x, and removed ages ago from OpenACS, because it was useless junk.

openacs.org, on the other hand, until just a few days ago included a very useful and simple link from the community-member page to the Forums page displaying that user's Forums posts. This page was similar - although much less comprehensive - to the same functionality found in OpenACS 3.x. Is there really no such functionality in the OpenACS 5.x toolkit? (If so, that's just plain absurd.)

You mean that name's a link for a reason?!? Who woulda thunk it! :)

I think the problem Andrew is describing is exactly what Malte's TIP addresses. The reason the TIP was withdrawn is that changes in OpenACS 5.2 will make it fairly trivial to implement, so we can do it there.

Why don't we just bust our ass and get 5.2 out in six weeks? :)