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Hi all,

This week's change log:
/g/beta/message/13576

Some interesting developments this week!

Feel free to reply to this topic if you'd like to comment on the changes. Or better yet, if you expect a lot of discussion start a new topic (or rejoin an existing one) about a specific change.


* Revamped Help site including new FAQ.

I've always been an advocate for user documentation, and that's been something lagging sorely behind as the site matures. So it is nice to see Mark pay some attention to it.
/static/help

But even more -- we get to help!

Mark invited me to make a copy of the official help page in GMF's wiki.
/g/beta/message/13510

So now we can use this mock-up as a place where GMF members can contribute corrections and additions as proposed updates to the official help page.
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Groups.io-Help-page-Mock-up


* Added Oracle-modified ToS and then rolled it back.

This one caused a bit of a tempest in beta@. Mark has apparently sold Oracle on the idea of using the Groups.io platform for some Java programming message lists. But their lawyers asked for some changes to the Groups.io ToS; which he accepted, then after the tempest, regretted and rolled back.
/g/beta/message/13549

The primary issue was one of privacy. Oracle's lists will be for open source programming, and they wanted the ToS to provide clear license for users to take any of the group content and use it any way they like. That's fine for open source programming, but was a very big NO from groups with private archives and others. No, generally speaking other groups don't want their content taken and re-used (even reposted) elsewhere. Only in very open groups like GMF might that be even close to acceptable.


* Started integrating new editor TinyMCE to replace the existing Summernote editor.

This one I note because it may mean the end of various annoyances I've had with formatting in the on-site New Topic and Reply message composition boxes. OTOH, it may mean the introduction of a whole new set of annoyances. Something to watch for.
/g/beta/message/13534


* Links to Google Maps in database rows with addresses.

This could be handy in groups about local public places. Or maybe in travel or sightseeing groups.


* Topics hashtagged for mods only can now be replied to by members.
* A new option to prevent replies by members.

These two go together, also caused a fair amount of beta@ discussion.
/g/beta/message/13479

Apparently many group moderators thought that such topics could be replied to by members, and had used them with that expectation, while others had used them specifically to exclude member replies to such topics. So Mark changed the function to match the member-replies are ok expectation, then added an option to prevent member replies. So group managers can have it whichever way they want in any given hashtag.


Comments about these others are also welcome:

* Some links to invoices in monthly receipts were incorrect.
* More work fleshing out the API test harness and documentation.
* Pagination in the drafts page was broken.
* For ICS feeds, include all (single) events all the time.
* Number poll responses when displaying them on the website.
* Changing an existing single event to a repeating event didn't work.
* Editing a single event from a repeating event a second time reverted the changes to the repeating event information.
* Fixed issue with changing CC numbers to pay an overdue invoice.

Please call out any you find significant.

Shal