FOSSkriti Workshop

There will be a hackfest for SahanaPy at ​FOSSkriti on Feb 14th at 15:30 UTC

This will include a number of people - some will be skilled programmers, some may be new to this technology.

Ajay will be on site. Remote support will be provided by Fran, Massimo & Satya (& possibly Chamindra)

Introduction

• Introductory Presentation: Ajay Kumar [ajuonline]
  • ​http://trac.sahanapy.org/Sahana_at_FOSSkriti_2009.pdf
• Brief Skype Videocall on the tracks we will cover: Fran Boon [flavour]
• Getting Started:
  • InstallationGuidelinesDeveloper
  • Using Transconnect for full Internet access (iitk network + bzr workaround):
    • Start up a terminal and run the following command
    • export LD_PRELOAD=~/.tconn/tconn.so
    • Verify that it works with wget www.google.com
    • Run all bzr commands from the same terminal. If you want to change terminals, repeat the export in the new one.
  • Using Bzr to work on the hackfest tree:
    • Note for Windows Users: DeveloperGuidelinesBzrWindows
    • Get a username/password for the hack server from Ajay or Fran
    • bzr branch bzr+ssh://username@hack.sahanapy.org/var/www/web2py/applications/sahana
    • hack
    • bzr add && bzr remove && bzr commit
    • bzr push bzr+ssh://username@hack.sahanapy.org/var/www/web2py/applications/sahana
    • Update the working-tree & reload Apache to see the results: ​http://hack.sahanapy.org/cgi-bin/hackfest.py
    • Ignore the 500 error!
  • DeveloperGuidelines

How to Communicate?

• Developer discussions prior to the event can be done on the ​Sahana Developer Mailing list
• ​IRC
  • Pastebin
    • For jQuery/HTML: ​http://pastebin.me/
    • For Python: ​http://paste.pocoo.org/
• Participants please ping flavour/ajuonline on IRC to get their Trac logins created for this wiki beforehand or ask one of the guys in #fosskriti.
• ​Skype or ​Dimdim or ​CoPilot (if necessary)

Tracks

• Sahana Module development: Ajay Kumar [ajuonline]
  • How to add a new Module?
  • Person Registry

• ​Web2Py framework for simple RAD web development: Massimo di Pierro [massimo]
  • Ensure the new Auth/Crud in tools.py are working properly
    • still using t2.itemize, t2.search & 1 instance of t2.delete (should be replaced, which may mean amending tools.py &/or sqlhtml.py)
    • rework our Audit to use auth_events?
  • Add a 2nd Password field to the Register form (#5)
  • JSON POST support in the RESTlike CRUD controller
  • Fix CSV Import: ​http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=31
  • Many to Many widget
  • Synchronisation
  • Framework
  • Extend the Languages support by integrating suggestions from ​GoogleTranslate
  • Test _stamp_many()

• Testing using Selenium: Satyakaam Goswami [satyag]
  • Functional Test cases will be created using BluePrints
  • Download and install ​Selenium IDE
  • Read Testing with Selenium
  • ​Good read in order to Understand how Selenium Works

• jQuery Enhancements: People already fluent with jQuery
  • Note the Production/Debug modes with compressed JS files: DeveloperGuidelinesReleaseProcess#CompressJSCSSfiles
  • Fix bug in DeletableList: #7
  • Auto-complete widget (for when dropdowns get too long):
    • ​http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/e1034df0091b5bfd
    • ​http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/f6e0170273b14241
    • ​http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/autocomplete.htm
    • ​http://plugins.jquery.com/project/autocompletex
    • ​http://plugins.jquery.com/project/YA_AutoComplete
  • Many to Many widget

• Advanced: Fran Boon [flavour]
  • if there are advanced Python developers who want a challenge then they can look at any of the BluePrints, e.g.
    • GIS
    • Messaging Module
    • Charts/Reporting
    • XML Import/Export

Preparation

• Dedicated Server (Internet accessible): Courtesy ​Zen Internet
  • Will be a Xen environment
  • Have a Bzr repo people can check code into
    • ​http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/user-guide/index.html#running-a-smart-server
  • Runs code live via Apache/mod_wsgi (remote admin permitted)
  • Method for restarting Apache (CGI?)
• Get Trac usernames setup for all known participants ahead of time: Shashank/Ajay
• Person Registry Blue Print: Dominic
• Prepare Tracks Intro: Fran