2004-01-15
   thanks to heiko for the german translation

2003-11-25

    "its been a long time, i shouldn't have left you,
        without a strong rhyme to step to..."
            
            -Eric B. & Rakim - /I Know You Got Soul/

-lots of additions, some of which have been laying in CVS for MONTHS....
-lots of bugfixes/code-cleanup, altho i'm sure theres more to be done ;)

here are some visible changes, organized by directory:

    admin/
        -remove .htaccess setup, and protect with php login/passwords
        -multiple librarians can now be designated as administrators via
         "edit a librarian"
        -passwords can be changed via form
        -search/display transcripts
        -basic survey reports (only for surveys provided with RAKIM)
        -added margaret's XML/XSLT reports (requires XSLT in your PHP)
        -others....

    librarian/
        -shared scripts/bookmarks in tools.php (if added by admin)
        -review your transcripts
        -link to admin area if you are an administrator; still need to 
         provide your login/password
        -preference editing:
            -can change passwords now
            -can choose to have a larger textarea for message input
        -when other librarians login/logout, the dropdown box with their
         names should now reflect that (except for IE on Macs...buggy DOM
         and JavaScript)

    patron/
        -login uses same window, instead of popping up a new one,
         mainly because of the popup blocking of mozilla (which is a good
         thing ;)
         
2003-02-12

-first release of the email module (rakim-dev/email/); same logins as the chat
 module.
-first release of basic statistics on the admin pages using phplot
-reinstated shared scripts/bookmarks on the admin page, but not implemented in 
 the librarians' tools yet
-some code cleanup, and other things....

2003-01-17

-fixed auto logout of patrons/librarians that don't exit cleanly (admin/checkRakim.php)
-added simple librarian/patron exit surveys (mainly for MU's use)
-put the ringer back in, along with options for on|off|loop
-other fixes, etc that i can't quite remember

2002-12-14

-MAJOR database naming changes, so if you already have a development
 version installed, you'll have to start from scratch...sorry.
-PostgreSQL support seems to be working now
-minimal support for NN4 and Opera CSS bugginess (tabs don't change color, but
 still trigger chat changes)
-transcripts for the librarians (yes, no, or prompt)
-beginning to integrate askal from unomaha into rakim (still not there yet, but
 will provide a default email reference system for off-hours, impatient patrons, etc)
-others that i'm forgetting