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For quite awhile I haven’t post any news about the progress of AGO3, and for that I’m sorry.

So what have I been doing during the last weeks?

To start let me tell you about a ‘under-heavy-development’ progress table I addded to live.gnome so I have a clearer way to let others know what I have done so far and what is missing. Never the less, please remember it is still being built. As the times goes by I will be adding more tasks.

Anyway, returning to the subject. I can consider the moderation process complete. The features it is lacking will be added when the components they depend on are complete.

Moderators can already vote in favor or against a users’ work. If the global rating of that work reaches the imposed limits, it will be automatically moved to the public gallery (in case it was accepted) or back to the draft folder of the user (in case it was rejected). The only part of it missing is letting the user know that his work was accepted/rejected. Easily done when I have an internal message system implemented.

Users allowed to do so can now change others users permissions in the administrative interface and soon enough user edition will be also available.

Next steps will be to complete the submission process. This is a kind of boring task because it has a lot of forms to be handled. Since I’ve only completed the background submission process and I’m still missing Theme and Screenshot uploads I better finish this before starting any other part.

Other thing that is bothering me is that I’m slacking a bit in what concerns the looks. I think I is better to spend some time working in the layout of the whole page and specify a base style-sheet. And with this I mean define all the rules about links, paragraphs, headings, notices, etc.

Well, let me go back to work

I think is more than time to give an update on the development of ago!

All the authentication and registration process is up and running. Already coded the moderation model and all the ones related with the voting process. And currently I’m working in the artwork submission process and all the post-processing needed( create image variations, check packages validity, etc). After this is complete I will be able to fully integrate the moderation process in the system.

After friday I won’t have any more exams to bother with, so hopefully the development rate of AGO will increase hugely!

Hi again!

So the latest update still is related with authentication.
Registration process was finally implemented as well as the use of openID.

In case of users having an openID account they can use it to login in AGO. In case it is their first time, they’ll be asked to register.
The other users work like in any other system, register an username, login and everything is set to go.

Ok, so current code is lacking some features like password request and account activation, so I’ll be working on that during the next days.

There are plans to implement internationalization so I’ll also be looking at in a near feature, before having hundred of messages lines needing to be manually changed.
Btw, I’m thinking on using php gettext. If you have any better idea, please let me know.

So I missed SOC kick off by a week and a half, but now (free from university classes) I’m starting to get back on tracks. Yesterday I’ve committed my first few lines of code(about 140 to be more accurate) to AGO repository.

So what have I done so far?
Well, I started coding an Authentication library. As I mentioned in my proposal, I’ve implemented some basic ACL.
It isn’t much, I know, but more is to come in next few days!