Re: New Member website ready for testing
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:03:51PM +0200, Nils Lohner wrote:
> - the password entry should be secure. It's probably better to
> generate a random password and allow the user to change it later using
> a secure web page
I'm not sure what you mean by secure. Do you mean the application page
should be via HTTPS?
> - "Registration is ok!! Your application date is 2001-05-15. " Can we
> provide a record number or something (sequence number?) so we can track
> records if the person misspells everything? Also, please change it to
> 'SPI membership application submitted successfully on
> 2001-05-15.\n\nYou should receive a confirmation email at the email
> address that you specified in the application.' I don't know if
> anything else is needed on this page... probably not.
There is a membership sequence number and a applicatiosn sequence
number. The page gives you the application one.
> - if someone doesn't respond to the confirmation email, how long before
> the record gets deleted? I'd say ~2 days is good...
At the moment it doesn't. I can put an automatic reaper in there
similar to the advocation script on Debian.
> - the "SPI Membership Application Sucessful" mail comes from Craig
> Small; it should come from the nm alias (whoever that ends up being).
> And it should be 'Successful' with 2 c's.
All changed.
> - the status page http://nm.spi-inc.org/nmstatus.php should allow the
> user to edit the fields needed for contributing membership, or have a
> link to another web page where he can supply the information needed and
> submit it.
It will be on that page, contrib isn't covered yet as there are still
some issues to iron out about non-contrib.
> - clicking 'status' on the status page gave an error about the URL not
> being found.
Works ok here now, let me kow if it still does it.
> - let's simplify things: the users can ONLY apply for a non-contrib
> membership off the main page, and then once their email is confirmed
> (it's quick) they need to log in to continue their application.
> This'll make the front page less complicated and the process easier to
> manage I think since we're sure to have a valid email by the time the
> contrib application is submitted.
OK, will do it.
> - question: should we allow them to freely edit their name and/or email
> addr?
At first, I'd say no.
We can always add this later.
- Craig
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