[WikiToLearn Tech] Plans for the next release and related projects

Wed Mar 16 17:06:29 UTC 2016

Hi guys!

I want to point out just a couple of things.

   - *remove_exts* branch could be merge but it will generate conflicts.
   During the sprint I start to lay the foundation of a new extension named
   EasyLink. Martina thought it was useless and she removed the directory from
   /extensions. Since we are going to move to VisualEditor I don't know if my
   extension will be only a VisualEditor gadget. In conclusion, if we decide
   to merge and resolve conflicts is better to keep the directory like it is
   in master. I will see to remove it if we'll not need.

   - We must fix Node.js dependencies into OCG before release. I had
   already talked about that with Cristian and Luca. We made a big jump
   forward (0.1 to 4 LTS), and we must consider that upstream doesn't support
   that. Service, Bundler and Texter aren't forked and I had to "play" with
   their dependencies in order to build successfull on dev environment. It
   could be my fault, but we have to investigate.

Bye,

Alessandro

2016-03-16 17:48 GMT+01:00 <wikitolearn-tech-request at kde.org>:
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> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:57:13 +0100
> From: Cristian Baldi <bld.cris.96 at gmail.com>
> To: WikiToLearn-Tech <WikiToLearn-Tech at kde.org>
> Subject: [WikiToLearn Tech] Plans for the next release and related
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> Hey guys!
>
> I decided to wrote this to discuss a bit about the next release and to
> gather some informations about the ongoing projects.
>
> At the sprint we achieved a lot but we have yet to put in
> production/user-side most of the work we produced there.
>
> I (and I guess you too) would like to see many new stuff coming with the
> next release.
>
> I will try to sum up the status of the ongoing projects I know, and if we
> could use them for the next release.
>
> *WikiToLearn *(the website)
> We are working on 3 different feature branches:
>
>    - liquid2flow, I am in the process of migrating from LiquidThreads to
>    Flow (for the talk pages), things didn't go as planned, we have a few
>    problems with the migration. I contacted upstream and they gave me a few
>    possible fixes, I have yet to try them, there is hop. If we need this
> fast
>    or if we can't fix it for real we might need to lose all the discussions
>    (or at least the User discussions, which are problematic)
>
>    - remove_exts, Martina while at the sprint started the process of
>    cleaning up and updating extensions and also updating/fixing the
>    LocalSettings.php  as well as adding a few quick fixes for extensions
>    related development (error reporting for example). We have to do some
>    testing and then we can merge this without many problems, I think.
>
>    - dev-wtl-home, the sysadmins created this branch to begin the process
>    of migrating from the old wtl setup to the new WikiToLearnHome one.
> More in
>    the dedicated secton.
>
> All these 3 are blocking for the next release (IMO).
>
> *WikiToLearnHome*
> This is the new repo we (Luca, Dario, Davide and me) created to get the
> best possible WikiToLearn environment up and running as quickly and
> painlessly as possible, both in production and on development machines. We
> set the basis for it (we can run a local instance, but not in the clean way
> we would like) and are in the process of writing the last part of this new
> project.  The idea is to have the WikiToLearn repo as free as possible from
> scripts and at the same time improve the experience for the developers,
> sysadmins, users.
> The objective is to end this as soon as possible, and get at least the
> local instance/development scripts ready in the next weeks (2?).
>
> I think this is blocking for the next release, it has to be working; open
> to discuss this. It won't change anything on the user/editor/reader side.
>
> *texla*
> Texla is the latex parser developed at the sprint (and in the weeks before
> it) by Davide with the help of a few other people. The plan is to have a
> web interface where a user can upload latex files and convert/upload them
> to WikiToLearn, painlessly. We still have quite a lot work to do on this
> and I think we can release without it.
>
> *OCG/Collection*
> Alessandro, Irene and me updated the system to the newer version of nodejs
> (it was running one from 4 years ago). Work is still going on for the
> conversion of tables. Need more details to know if everything is working or
> what needs to be fixed or if we can release.  (We can release without the
> tables)
> We also worked on our fork of the collection extensions, improving the user
> experience, this is already merged in master.
>
> *Neverland*
> Let's wait for Gianluca, I don't know enough in the detail about what was
> done at the sprint. (New features?, fixes?)
>
>
> *VisualEditor*
> Gianluca managed to make VisualEditor run on WikiToLearn! It has some bugs
> and problems we have to fix, but I think we can release without it (unless
> something was fixed in the last few days)?
>
> *PDFCheck*
> Currently powered off, I have a simple bug to fix, we don't care for the
> release.
>
> *Infrastructure*
> We are planning the move to the new servers. Luca wants this for the next
> release.
>
>
> *Content Referencing*
> I don't know enough. I am sure we don't have this ready and won't need in
> the release.
>
> *Other Stuff*
> Cross Wiki Notification (who is working on that?) Not in this release? How
> much work is needed?
> Skin for the Blog (Andrea Zanini is working on that, we got some feedback
> from KDE's VDG). Non blocking.
> BotsForEditors (I am planning to work on that, soon).
>
> Waiting to get your opinion on everything,
>
> Cristian
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