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From: Chris B
Subject: "Discussion wasn't in vain "
Date: 11 Oct 2007 03:43:26
Message: <470dd41e$1@news.povray.org>
Following the discussion last year on the subject of 'povray standard 
include files' on this newsgroup
(see - 
http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Cweb.4558993a8d8f92ab3976a8750%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=248816&toff=300)
a new web site has been set up at http://lib.povray.org. This is to store 
POV-Ray and Moray objects contributed by the community and distributed under 
the Creative Commons LGPL license. Anyone can download objects. All it needs 
now is lots of contributions. You'll need to register to contribute objects 
(but this only takes a few minutes).

A new newsgroup - povray.object-collection has been set up on the 
news.povray.org server to support anything you would like to discuss about 
this collection.


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From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Subject: Re: "Discussion wasn't in vain "
Date: 11 Oct 2007 04:53:14
Message: <470de47a@news.povray.org>
Chris B wrote:
> Following the discussion last year on the subject of 'povray standard 
> include files' on this newsgroup
> (see - 
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Cweb.4558993a8d8f92ab3976a8750%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=248816&toff=300)
> a new web site has been set up at http://lib.povray.org. This is to store 
> POV-Ray and Moray objects contributed by the community and distributed under 
> the Creative Commons LGPL license. Anyone can download objects. All it needs 
> now is lots of contributions. You'll need to register to contribute objects 
> (but this only takes a few minutes).
> 
> A new newsgroup - povray.object-collection has been set up on the 
> news.povray.org server to support anything you would like to discuss about 
> this collection.
> 

   Now, this is going to help me greatly to get ride of the laziness and 
lack of inspiration... Many thanks!

--
Jaime


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From: Samuel Benge
Subject: Re: "Discussion wasn't in vain "
Date: 11 Oct 2007 17:34:06
Message: <470e96ce$1@news.povray.org>
Chris B wrote:
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> a new web site has been set up at http://lib.povray.org. This is to store 
> POV-Ray and Moray objects contributed by the community and distributed under 
> the Creative Commons LGPL license. Anyone can download objects. All it needs 
> now is lots of contributions. You'll need to register to contribute objects 
> (but this only takes a few minutes).

This is good. A perfect medium through which I can release some mineral 
macros :)

> A new newsgroup - povray.object-collection has been set up on the 
> news.povray.org server to support anything you would like to discuss about 
> this collection.

Such as announcements....

Sam


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From: Chris Cason
Subject: Re: "Discussion wasn't in vain "
Date: 11 Oct 2007 18:02:05
Message: <470e9d5d$1@news.povray.org>
I'd like to thank Chris B for setting this up, and also those who assisted
him in testing and admin.

At this point the registration system for lib.povray.org is separate from
the main povray site; this will be changing shortly. You can register on
the lib site now if you wish but if you do it would help if you could use
the same email address as you do on povray.org (if you happen to have a
login there already), as this will assist us in the transition.

thanks,

-- Chris


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: "Discussion wasn't in vain "
Date: 12 Oct 2007 01:25:01
Message: <web.470f051ab87573449c2329fd0@news.povray.org>
since then, I've hardly touched povray or SDL, but now seems the time to put
POV4 thoughts on hold and start contributing real code of any kind... :)


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: "Discussion wasn't in vain "
Date: 12 Oct 2007 07:25:27
Message: <470f59a7@news.povray.org>
Chris B <c_b### [at] btconnectcomnospam> wrote:
> a new web site has been set up at http://lib.povray.org.

  I wonder if it could be a good idea to make the registration and
login pages SSL-secured. Not that it matters all that much, but still...

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: "Discussion wasn't in vain "
Date: 12 Oct 2007 08:18:41
Message: <470f6621@news.povray.org>
I submitted an entry, but didn't know that there could be some kind of
image thumbnail included too, so I didn't put one. How can I add it there
now?

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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From: Chris B
Subject: Re: "Discussion wasn't in vain "
Date: 12 Oct 2007 08:23:49
Message: <470f6755$1@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
news:470f6621@news.povray.org...
>  I submitted an entry, but didn't know that there could be some kind of
> image thumbnail included too, so I didn't put one. How can I add it there
> now?
>
> -- 
>                                                          - Warp

At the moment only administrators can edit stuff once it's been submitted.
If you post one in povray.binaries.images we can copy that up for you.

Regards,
Chris B.


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: "Discussion wasn't in vain "
Date: 12 Oct 2007 08:48:08
Message: <470f6d08@news.povray.org>
Chris B <c_b### [at] btconnectcomnospam> wrote:
> At the moment only administrators can edit stuff once it's been submitted.
> If you post one in povray.binaries.images we can copy that up for you.

  What I did was to submit a "new version" with the proper image files.
I hope that's not a bad solution.

  It would be really nice if the submitter could modify his submission
afterwards (eg. to add, remove or perhaps even rename files).

  It could also be helpful if the submission page would warn that the
submission has no valid thumbnail and/or larger image. This would be
especially helpful for first-time users (like me :) ).

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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From: Chris B
Subject: Re: "Discussion wasn't in vain "
Date: 12 Oct 2007 09:30:08
Message: <470f76e0@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
news:470f6d08@news.povray.org...
> Chris B <c_b### [at] btconnectcomnospam> wrote:
>> At the moment only administrators can edit stuff once it's been 
>> submitted.
>> If you post one in povray.binaries.images we can copy that up for you.
>
>  What I did was to submit a "new version" with the proper image files.
> I hope that's not a bad solution.
>

No. That's fine too, and I see you've used a small increment in the version 
number, which is good as it makes it clear that it's a minor change.
I've suspended the older versions so that only the latest one shows up on 
the search.

>  It would be really nice if the submitter could modify his submission
> afterwards (eg. to add, remove or perhaps even rename files).
>

The reason for not being generally able to change anything without adjusting 
the version number is that otherwise, anyone who has already downloaded the 
object would not necessarily be able to detect that it had changed since 
they received their copy.

There are however a couple of situations where it could be reasonable to 
change things without updating the version number:
One is if you notice something pretty well straight away before anyone has 
downloaded it. The other is where it has no material effect on the way the 
contribution works (e.g. the Thumbnail image, the Description, Keywords and 
Category classification). You happened to hit both at once :-). At present, 
both need to be handled by the administrators. It may be possible to permit 
some post-submission modifications by the contributor in the future with the 
server checking that either no-one has downloaded it or that it's only a 
meta-data change.  I'll add it to the list of things to think about.

>  It could also be helpful if the submission page would warn that the
> submission has no valid thumbnail and/or larger image. This would be
> especially helpful for first-time users (like me :) ).
>

That should be doable. I'll look at doing that.

Regards,
Chris B.


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