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OLC Problems
There are also serious time zone and calendar issues as a result of
javascript errors, which requires multiple steps to get around. But apparently it is more important to the OLC team to provide a google earth link than fix their bugs. Can't even use olc to review other's flights anymore... It's about time that someone with spare time and talent will develope a US alternative to olc, without all the hassles and politics. Ramy Doug Haluza wrote: Greg Arnold wrote: Tim Taylor wrote: I get on about 50% of the time. Does anyone know how to contact the admins for the OLC, I have a flight with a zero score that I don't know how to fix. Don't bother to contact the OLC admins in Europe -- I have 4 flights with zero scores, and they don't know how to fix any of them. Doug Haluza in the USA is doing a good job, but he doesn't have the access to the website necessary to fix the problems. Recently, the website seems to be down every evening in the USA -- almost like the people in Europe turn off the server when they go to bed. Maybe they are trying to conserve electricity. There is a problem with the OLC production server crashing, and they have not been able to reproduce the problem on the development server, so this will be a difficult problem to fix. In the mean time, it has to be manualy rebooted when it crashes. The OLC team does get an SMS message whenever this happens, so there is no need to notify them; but someone has to be near a computer to fix it. Naturally if it happens late at night, it does not get fixed until the next morning (German time). There are also problems in the scoring algorithm causing some flights to get zero score. As the problems are fixed, the flights will be re-scored, as some have been already, so please be patient. Keep claiming your flights, since they can't be fixed if they are not submitted by the Tuesday 24:00 local deadline. |
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OLC Future
Ramy schrieb:
There are also serious time zone and calendar issues as a result of javascript errors, which requires multiple steps to get around. But apparently it is more important to the OLC team to provide a google earth link than fix their bugs. Can't even use olc to review other's flights anymore... It's about time that someone with spare time and talent will develope a US alternative to olc, without all the hassles and politics. Ramy At least one nation has done it already, others have never joined the OLC movement. But is the world gliding community sufficiently powerful that we can allow it to split it into many small communities? |
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OLC Problems
This is what I use,
http://www3.onlinecontest.org/olc-2....tml?country=US In the US I find the calendar defaults to tomorrow's date, so I often initially get a "no flights to report" notice. Also, since there are apparently Javascript problems with their calendar, using the mouse to select a new date does not usually work. I have found that this bug can be avoided by using the upper calendar arrows to move the date back a year and then return forward a year. This seems to enable the mouse to select the desired date in the calendar. ..... as I have said before regarding OLC2, avoiding these sorts of problems is why we have "beta tests" before a production release. We in the northern hemisphere are in our low season, pity our poor brothern in the southern hemisphere entering their prime season with a busted OLC. Bob On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:57:23 GMT, "P. Corbett " wrote: Mal wrote: Is anyone else having problems logging in to the OLC I can usually log on using www3.onlinecontest.org but they keep saying that there are no flights to report. It is hard to believe that there is no one on the planet flying a glider, especially down under. Can anyone pass-on the link they are using to view flights with the new system? Paul ZZ |
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OLC Future
hans wrote:
But is the world gliding community sufficiently powerful that we can allow it to split it into many small communities? The world gliding community is ready for something that works. The question is, who will provide it? Jack |
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From rumor central, someone is already working on it locally...
Ramy Jack wrote: hans wrote: But is the world gliding community sufficiently powerful that we can allow it to split it into many small communities? The world gliding community is ready for something that works. The question is, who will provide it? Jack |
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OLC Future
Hey, It worked!
Logged on this morning, checked out a flight down under via Google maps (and the default map is better, too), then went back and found my flight back on Oct 22 had finally been scored (not much, but a start). Ok, I feel better now. Keep up the good work, OLC gang - and just ignore (well, listen a little) the whiners (yours truly included) - it's our grumpy season now... Kirk 66 |
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kirk.stant wrote:
Hey, It worked! Logged on this morning, checked out a flight down under via Google maps (and the default map is better, too), then went back and found my flight back on Oct 22 had finally been scored (not much, but a start). Ok, I feel better now. Keep up the good work, OLC gang - and just ignore (well, listen a little) the whiners (yours truly included) - it's our grumpy season now... You mean there is a difference? ;-) Kirk 66 Bruce |
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It does work, but like SAP, you have to do it their way. Simply adapt your
habits, processes and products to their code and all will be well. (sorry about the software humour in a soaring newsgroup) "Jack" wrote in message et... hans wrote: But is the world gliding community sufficiently powerful that we can allow it to split it into many small communities? The world gliding community is ready for something that works. The question is, who will provide it? Jack |
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OLC Problems
Bruce Greef wrote: Bob wrote: If it is that unreliable and with the wealth of IT talent that we have within the soaring community, I'm surprised that no one else has tried to improve on the system!! Bob 7U Mal wrote: Is anyone else having problems logging in to the OLC -- Mal www.mals.net So far so good - I have been able to log on every time I tried (same timezone as Germany). Now if the weather would just improve enough that there was a flight worth uploading... Bruce Gone again Frank |
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The calendar is working today.
The 'suggested initial date' displayed will always be Euro time I suspect until their scripts can detect local time zones, but a single click on a calendar day with claimed flights now works. Patience is the key. They had to get it running to take in new flight logs, that's priority one. And how do you test this in a volunteer development environment with the volume of countries, langauges and Internet frailities? The testing they DID do must have worked before we saw anything public. Next they worried about auto claiming from SeeYou, Strepla, etc. I bet. And those folks are responding, and again volume use draws out bugs, and those will be fixed. We are told that the regional results will return, as will Novice class or whatever your country had before. The Google Earth link may seem a frill, but my guess is the volunteer who took on that component got it working before the other requirements were ready. This feature is certainly one we can all use to promote interest in our sport, and it's just plain fun to see flights from around the world in such terrain detail. Whether they use the paved strip or the grass! You can even decide whether the outlanding pilot chose the best field (for when the imagery was taken anyway) ! My guess is that by mid summer 2007 the complaints here will focus on what country or state has the best or worst resolution in Google Earth! It's free, it's fun, it's addictive. The proof of that is in the posts showing frustration with getting a flight posted. Let's give them support and suggestions and maybe reduce the anger a notch or two. You know how you can feel as a club volunteer when someone thinks your contributions are less than perfect. Great work OLC and the volunteers in every country, and continued success! ....Bringing more fun to an already fun sport! Bob Canada Bob Gibbons wrote: snip Also, since there are apparently Javascript problems with their calendar, using the mouse to select a new date does not usually work. |
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