GSoC 2009: GHOP - Eighth Week Status Update!

Hello everyone,
Have spent most of the week with re-locating and figuring out how to make internet work. Most of it is working except for Skype and IRC now. Setting up internet did not turn out to be as easy as I had thought of :(. Not a very satisfactory week this has been.

Spent some more time fixing 505s for task create/edit for mentors. Reviewed some jquery pluggins to be used for creating/editing/deleting tags and found out a plugin called jquery-tagger suitable for this task. Has to be integrated yet. And after this I started working on Task Comment infrastructure. Users are now able to post comments.

While working on Commenting infrastructure, I also re-organized the Task public view page, to now have an actions drop down(this action drop down list is built dynamically based on context and user) and then a submit button instead of different buttons for different actions. This now tightly integrates both actions and comments. Only logged in users can post comments and perform actions if there are any. The common action to all users is, "Comment without any action". In addition, if student is eligible to claim a task, he gets, "Request to claim" the task option in the list. If he has already claimed the task, he gets, "Withdraw from the task" option.

An Org Admin or a Mentor will get an option to, "Accept" or "Reject" requests if a student has requested to claim a task. In all the above cases, the comment is only optional. In case of above actions one can also do the action without posting any comment, even that is optional. The "Changes" line as shown in the code.google.com issue tracker per action is being recorded in the datastore, but I am still working on display of comments.

My work for the next week will be to complete all the actions that must be available to every role, for the Task Workflow which includes Work Submission for student who has claimed the task. NeedAction, NeedWork, Closed actions for Org Admin or Mentor. In addition to it completing the commenting infrastructure. If time permits I will start working on the task notification work which was put on hold last week due to some adjustments and changes happening in how Task Queue APIs are being used in Melange.