FOSSkriti Workshop

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

This included a number of people - some were skilled programmers, some were new to this technology.

Ajay was on site. Remote support was provided by Fran, Massimo, Satya, Chamindra & Dominic [nursix].

Photos:

• ​http://picasaweb.google.com/ajuonline/SahanaPyHackfestFOSSKriti#

IRC Logs:

• ​#sahana
• ​#sahana-classroom
• ​#sahana-testing

Code achievements (any more to come?):

• Bug #7 fixed
• Sub-menus added to Framework
• Tests for Authorization

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

Note: BZR/Launchpad info is deprecated. Please use GitHub. Thanks.

• InstallationGuidelinesDeveloper Note this has been superseded by InstallationGuidelines.
• Using Bzr to work on the hackfest tree... Note we are now using git and Github, so see InstallationGuidelines for current setup instructions.
  • bzr branch lp:~mdipierro/web2py/devel web2py
  • cd web2py/applications
  • bzr branch bzr+ssh://hacker@hack.sahanapy.org/var/www/web2py/applications/sahana
  • hack
  • bzr add && bzr remove && bzr commit
  • bzr push bzr+ssh://hacker@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?

• ​Sahana Developer Mailing list can be used prior to & after the event.
• ​IRC allows real-time group & 1-1 communication using low-bandwidth text
• Pastebin allows people to share code snippets
  • For jQuery/HTML: ​http://pastebin.me/
  • For Python: ​http://paste.pocoo.org/
• ​GoogleDocs can be used for collaborative document authoring before copying results to this Wiki
• ​Dabbleboard provides an Online Whiteboard for sketches
• An audio channel can be added, if necessary, using ​GTalk or ​Skype
• Alternate options: ​Dimdim or ​CoPilot

Tracks

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

• ​Web2Py framework for simple RAD web development: Massimo di Pierro [massimo]
  • Sub-menus
  • RESTlike CRUD controller:
    • integrate tools.py's Crud Authorization
    • 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 tools.py's auth_events
    • JSON POST support
  • Many to Many widget
  • Synchronisation
  • 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
  • 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.
    • XML Import/Export
    • Data Analysis, Visualisation and Reporting
    • GIS
    • Messaging Module

Preparation

• Dedicated Server (Internet accessible): Courtesy ​Zen Internet
  • Bzr repo people can check code into
  • Runs code live via Apache/mod_wsgi (remote admin permitted)
  • CGI for restarting Apache (& updating Bzr working-tree)
  • Xen environment