By Sanjay Mehrotra on
7/17/2008
So after a lot of hiccups, I can finally say that I have a version of the new feedback module ready for testing.. There has been quite a few bumps along the way including
a) my decision to use the ajax control toolkit - since I'd started developing against version 4.6.2 initially which was working fine with the core implementation of AJAX, I'd thought I'd be all peachy when I try and move everything to a newer version of the core (ie 4.8.0)... However when I did this, I found out that something had changed...
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By Sanjay Mehrotra on
12/20/2007
After about two months of testing and re-submitting of the feedback module to the release tracker for approval, I can finally say that I think I see the light at the end of the tunnel. With the very rigorous testing which both Sebastian and Matthias have put the new feedback module through, I am hoping that this is going to be a much better module than it's predecessor.
A big thank you goes to both of them for guiding me along the way and ensuring that I was able to "fix" a lot of the legacy issues that I had inherited from the 3x version of the module....
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By Sanjay Mehrotra on
10/7/2007
After a long hiatus, I can now return to the changes for the feedback module as I had intended. Part of the delay in getting out the newer version has been my fault - switching jobs and trying to adjust to the new job culture. The other part has also been trying to adjust to having a new baby in the house which in itself is a huge project. :)
For this I do apologize to everyone in the community in general and hope to correct this in the upcoming weeks/months by being more proactive in my approach.
There are...
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By Sanjay Mehrotra on
3/26/2007
Its now been a couple of weeks since version 4.4.1 of the feedback module has been released and with the exception of some bugs, I would say that overall, the release process went fine (unless others have some input on this).
I will start working on 4.4.2 very shortly here (hopefully start getting the feature set ready by mid week ) and then start figuring out what needs to be done in 4.4.2. I know I've received some requests from the core which include better administrative functionality (ie allowing others...
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By Sanjay Mehrotra on
2/26/2007
We were so close to releasing the module this past weekend but have hit on another roadblock which will prevent us from releasing the module as expected.
As many might be aware from following the module, I have introduced captcha capabilities in the new version which will prevent bots from submitting feedbacks on your site that uses the feedback module.
This captcha feature was taken straight from the core and is basically the same implementation as what the core has done when you sign in or register to create...
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By Sanjay Mehrotra on
2/22/2007
First off, my apologies for being AWOL for a couple of days. I have a 37 week pregnant wife and although her pregnancy has been un-eventful till date, it's finally beginning to become eventful. She might have a kidney infection and I was in the hospital with her for a couple of days...
Now, with regards to the feedback module- the hold up has been 100% because of me. The core had sent me notification that the source version was failing installation and that's why it was being held up. However I could...
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By Sanjay Mehrotra on
2/12/2007
The feedback module has just passed the release tracking program and I'm expecting it to be available very shortly. I have to find out from the core whether there is a beta testing period or whether it is released as is to the general community.
I was able to sneak in the captcha features in the upcoming release (v 4.04.01) and it is exciting to see some of the feedback generated by the community on features they would like to see in upcoming versions.
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By Sanjay Mehrotra on
1/31/2007
Reasons to retire the Firebird DataProvider Project
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By Sanjay Mehrotra on
1/31/2007
I am happy to announce that I have recently taken over the management of the Feedback module.
As I'm sure a lot of you are already aware, I have been actively supporting the DNN community over the past few years (authoring the oracle data provider for DotNetNuke and also leading the effort to create the firebird version of DotNetNuke). Towards this end, it is indeed a pleasure to be asked to support in other areas of DotNetNuke and hopefully help in the growth of this wonderful open source project.
With regards to the feedback module, it is one which has not seen any changes for quite some time. The latest available version (3.2.1) was released well over 6 months ago and there has been little or no updates to this module since then....
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By Sanjay Mehrotra on
1/30/2007
As part of the role of managing the Feedback Module, I have recently made some major changes to the module which will be available for release shortly.
List of Changes
Converted module to VS 2005 (to be released as version 04.04.01).
Corrected references to obsolete DNN core functions which were in the 3.2.1 version.
Moved Categories from the Lists table to a table controlled by the Feedback Module (Feedback_Lists)
Created interface to manage Categories via new Feedback_Lists...
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