Why cann't we re-open a BFAV group? Was:RE: Squeak 3.8 status

Thomas Koenig tomkoenig at mindspring.com
Sat Aug 7 18:34:34 UTC 2004


Doug,
I will pursue the reopen and split/merge issues.  Who do I talk to about
the server side?  
Tom


Doug wrote
> 
> True, we can't "rewrite an email", but in some ways that's okay, 
> because if you keep all the emails, you keep the history of what's 
> happened.
> 
> I think right now the BFAV client doesn't classify groups 
> according to 
> the order in which posts appear.  In other words, if there's a 
> "[closed]" anywhere in a group, right now it always treats it as 
> closed.  We should be able to add a [reopened] tag, which 
> moves a group 
> back to the Review tab.  But it should only appear there if a 
> [reopened] post appears *after* the last [closed] post.  It 
> should also 
> be possible to close a reopened post again, of course.
> 
> Actually, I've needed the same capability for moving an 
> [approved] item 
> back to Review status.  There are several groups under Approved right 
> now (at the bottom of the list) that have some issue and 
> should go back 
> to Review.  We could probably also handle this with a [reopened] tag.
> 
> So, if we could enhance the BFAV client to do this, that 
> would be a big 
> improvement.  Should be doable.
> 
> I guess support for a new [reopened] tag also needs to be 
> added to the 
> BFAV server.  (I'm not quite sure why the BFAV server has to 
> know about 
> all the tags... I guess this is for performance reasons?)
> 
 [snip]
> Merging groups together would be more difficult with the current 
> system... I know Ken has talked about eventually replacing the 
> emailed-based server with something more robust.
 [snip]
 




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