Weekly Report 2013-09-08
Completed Work
- Migration path for new site
- Found fix for broken Portal link
- Found fix for broken Anthology link
Agenda for Coming Week
- Continue work on Portal upgrade
- Continue work on style changes for new site
- Found fix for broken Portal link
- Found fix for broken Anthology link
- Drupal integration: complete - including error handling and logout functionality
- MediaWiki integration: works in theory but haven't tested. Still writing the integration module.
- Need to work on styling, also need to add a way to store individual site usernames (right now it's returning the username a user logs into the central auth system with).
- Drupal integration: works, need to write some error handling, though. Should be live tomorrow on the new main site.
- MediaWiki integration: works in theory but haven't tested. Still writing the integration module.
- Need to work on styling, also need to add a way to store individual site usernames (right now it's returning the username a user logs into the central auth system with).
- Test logins for jwherring (admin), knmnym (admin), testuser (regular user) with login centralauthpass
- Wrote most of integration module for new main site
- Need to work on styling
- Read through sourcecode of Drupal user authentication
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