[Owncloud] ownCloud 1.0 RC1 issues

[Robin]

On Tuesday, June 01, 2010 12:46:54 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> thanks a lot for the great work of all of you in the last few weeks.
> Especially because I hadn´t much time lately. :-) I think we achieved a
> lot and we are on the right track to produce a fantastic piece of
> software.
> 
> 
> I tried to package and release ownCloud 1.0 RC1 during this weekend like I
> announced last week. The plan is to release 1.0 during Linuxtag next week
> and do a 1.0.1 shortly after this with bugfixes.
> 
> But I noticed a few major problems.
> 
> 
> 1. I got 2 scrollbars on the right hand side of the browser at the first
> run wizard. This looks strange.
What browser are you using?

Does the second scrollbar actually hides something, I could force the browser 
not to show it but that only is an option if the scrollbar only scrolls a few 
pixels or something
> 
> 
> 2. Initial database setup
> I think the current configuration form is O.K. for now. But in the future
> we should streamline it more. All the database password and logins are
> confusing for normal users. I think we should default to SQLite where it
> automatically detects is a database exists and if not just creates it. No
> need to ask the users questions here. There could be an option to switch
> to mysql of course where all the advanced options for database
> authentication are shown.
At least the database name for sqlite databases can be removed as config option 
since it's stored in the owncloud directory anyway, so the user doesn't see it 
or anything
> I also don´t get SQLite as an option here. It seams that a driver is mission 
on this system here. But we should tell the
> users what is missing.
Good point, will fix it
> 
> Remember that the vision is that the user just has to unpack owncloud in a
> random directory on a webserver and it works without further system
> administration configuration work.
> 
> 
> 3. usermanagement / groups.
> I don´t think the existing multiuser features are ready for release at this
> moment. So I think this should be deativated. And I´m also not sure If the
> direction is the right one. I have some concrete plans and code for the
> sharing features already. This feature needs more discussion. It would be
> nice if somebody could deativate this features again for 1.0 Thanks.
Would just removing the "Create new user" dialog be enough for now?

> 
> 4. Settings / Admin Panel.
> I don´t get why we have 2 different places for configuration here.
> Could we please discuss this further?
This was done to separate the user related configurations from the ownCloud 
administration, the Admin Panel only shows for users in the admin group.
As long as the multi user is disabled it might be best to put them together 
again
> 
> 
> By the way. We should use this mailinglist to discuss major architectural
> changes and big commit. It is important that we are on the same page here
> and work in the same direction. :-)
> 
> We should use this mailinglist as "official" platform to decide about the
> direction of ownCloud. IRC is not the right medium because people who are
> not online at this moment can´t tell their opinion.
Sounds good
> 
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> 
> Cheers
> Frank
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> --
> Frank Karlitschek
> karlitschek at kde.org