Because Brion asked for feedback I've taken some time to test the new
inplace installer. It works great, and thanks for the free link to
OpenFacts! ;-)
Two things I noticed:
- In Mozilla, the dropdown box with the languages seems to really screw
things up. When I scroll through it, the fonts suddenly change, and
afterwards the form elements become unusable. Could be my setup, but I'd
still recommend using just the Latin transliterations here.
- There seems to be no option to create an SQL database account, instead
the standard account seems to be used for that purpose. That's probably
not the most secure setup. Is there a particular reason for this?
On a more general note, as we move developer status away from being an
actual developer, we should probably rename the rights flag. I suggest
something like "siteadmin", which is intuitive and instantly recognizable
from other applications. The first user the script would create would
always be a site-admin, and that user would be able to assign arbitrary
rights to other users.
I think we should deprecate the command line scripts ASAP, but preferably
after my Linux Magazine article which explicitly refers to them comes out
;-) (early April, I think - the German version is already out).
Regards,
Erik