[Imc-aotearoa-tech] Re: Ease of admin

[finn@animal-liberation.org.nz]

Hi

> I think it wouldn't hurt to try and 'ask' the Active developers, which 
> would be Andy at cat mostyl, though, there is a whole lot of them. THere 
> is a list on cat for active dev or something towards whom you *could* 
> address the request.
>
> I suspect that the normal course of events would be more likely to be :
>  - some particular IMC needs something
>  - that IMC finds the tech resource to modify their local version of Active
>  - eventually the changes are incorporated into the 'core' version of Active

The active list is at webcoders@lists.cat.org.au. It won't hurt to ask, but I
would be suprised if anyone would be keen. Basically Active hasn't had any
significant development for two years, and Active2 development has stalled. 

My impression is coding on Active is a bit daunting, and most folk looking to do
that kind of stuff are working on the newer systems - Mir, SfActive + DadaImc. 
DadaImc looks as like it has an admin setup similar to what you have requested.

I have a solution to unhidden articles going to the top of the list though:
*Open publish.php3
*Open hidden article
*Go to the Edit page for the hidden article
*Cut and paste vigorously between edit page and publish.php3
*Click Publish!

Article now at the top of the wire :) I don't mean to be flippant, but there has
only really been a few articles unhidden, so the above option is easiest.

seeyas,
finn