[Top-l] Apology and nearest news

[Libor Forst]

Hi all,

I am sorry but only already now I noticed that the order of the Events and
Series items/buttons is different in the VUI and AUI. Since we have more
users (1000 new last week :-) than administrators, I've decided to swap
Events and Series in the AUI. I apologize for this.

As I talked to some of you at the ETOC, the nearest important change in
the code will be adding a table RaceAdmin. The aim is to allow a person
to be given admin rights just to a single race within an event to compete
normally in the rest of the event. There will probably also be a chance
to take away the person's rights to one race (so that an event admin can
compete in one race of event). If you have any suggestion to this change,
do not hesitate to discuss it.

The last thing concerns vacants. Vacants in the system need to be connected
to a particular course so that marshals at timed controls and Toe read-out
points can easily assign a competitor to a vacant position. And since there
is a close connection between course and category and at many events there
are different categories in different races, the vacants are currently bound
to the race and not to the event. This brings another advantage if you have
not enough chips and you expect many different newcomers coming to different
races within your event - you can use Vacant1 with the same chip for someone
in the Saturday race and another in the Sunday race. On the other hand, this
brings a relatively complicated system and user interface whenever you want
to assign a person to a vacant position for the entire event. :-( And so I
started thinking about changing the approach and working with a vacant like
with a real person just without a name. It means you should define how many
vacants you want to have for each category within the event, to have chips
for them and when a vacant is assigned to a real person it is permanent for
the whole event. This change will not be implemented in the near future, so
you have relatively enough time to think about whether you have an opinion
on it.

Thanx. BR L