On 17 Jan 00:49, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote:
> 2014/1/16 Cédric Krier <[email protected]>:
> > On 16 Jan 21:17, Axel Braun wrote:
> >> Am Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2014, 21:11:17 schrieb Cédric Krier:
> >> > On 16 Jan 20:28, Axel Braun wrote:
> >> > But a simple script fecthing email addresses from the database and
> >> > sending email is thousand times better than anything that can be
> >> > developped withing Tryton because Tryton is not the right tool.
> >> > A similar script already exists in [1].
> >>
> >> Is there a functional description to this script? I can hardly judge what 
> >> it
> >> should do....
> >
> > Yes the docstring on top. But it is not what you are looking for, it is
> > just an example how to write a script to send email with data from
> > Tryton. And especially how it is short and easy.
> >
> >> > > I will write a functional design in Wiki, feel free to add to it
> >> >
> >> > I hardly doubt it will ever be included in Tryton, because it is just a
> >> > duplication of existing proved technology. Many people tried to replace
> >> > email and no one ever succeeded (even Google).
> >>
> >> Once again, the purpose is not to replace EMail. Email is in fact the wrong
> >> medium to inform a user.
> >
> > Whoa ! First time I hear that. You should inform everybody in the IT
> > world because you know, they all use email to inform users.
> 
> I only understand this is useful if stopping of the server could not
> be planned hours or days in advance. I think the point is to try to
> avoid users from loosing their work due to a need for shutting down
> the server. So, you announce all of those that are working right now
> that they have 5 minutes to save their work before the server is
> restarted.

Anyone doing such thing should be banned from adminstrating any service.

> In this case e-mail does not solve the issue, but the popup does not
> ensure everyone will save their changes because they may have left the
> client opened for a few minutes. Maybe educating the user not to close
> the application if they receive a network error or simply improving
> the network error message would do the job in this case.
> 
> Currently the message is:
> 
> Network Error!
> (111, 'Connection refused')
> 
> The description is very ugly, not very helpful, and we show the error
> number and "Connection refused" message. We could improve it by
> telling the user something like:
> 
> "There's been a network error trying to contact the Tryton Server.
> Please, contact the system administrator to solve the issue and do not
> close the application in order to avoid losing changes."

Useless, it should never happens.

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Cédric Krier - B2CK SPRL
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