[Xerte-dev] Re: Next Release

[Pat Lockley]

Yes, to seismologists.

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Would you keep selling caves on the San Andreas fault if you knew an
> earthquake was imminent?
> ;-)
>
>
>
>> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:28:47 +0000
>> From: patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
>> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Next Release
>>
>> I think more I was saying, nothing is obsolete, you could live in a
>> cave if you wanted to, but some people like doors, but doors need a
>> little work.
>>
>> 1.7 / trunk and 1.8 are massively out of sync I'd guess.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Julian Tenney
>> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> > As long as we're close, we can manage it. Thanks.
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> > From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> > [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
>> > [johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com]
>> > Sent: 29 February 2012 15:13
>> >
>> > To: For Xerte technical developers
>> > Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Next Release
>> >
>> > It may be a bit tight to get all the Connector pages done by then but I
>> > will
>> > give it a go. If they arrive a few days later can I still sneak them in?
>> >
>> > Before I do any more on the routed pages I will finish off the work on
>> > the
>> > existing templates now that the work on the xwd is finished.
>> >
>> > The biggest issue I can see is the one of passing the name value from
>> > the
>> > xml data to be displayed as the page title and to populate the toc. Will
>> > this all be done in the supporting swf files or will it be necessary to
>> > alter the model files?
>> >
>> > Kind regards
>> >
>> > Johnathan
>> >
>> > On 29 February 2012 14:37, Julian Tenney
>> > <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'd really like to get the next version done for 30th March, so I
>> >> reckon
>> >> that gives a little bit of time to add any new bits and pieces, and
>> >> then,
>> >> from Monday 5th March we concentrate on testing what's there and
>> >> putting
>> >> that straight. The testing needs to complete by around 23rd (or more or
>> >> less) so we can start thinking about making the builds etc.
>> >>
>> >> Is that OK with everyone?
>> >>
>> >> As a heads up, after that we are going to be looking at developing the
>> >> html5 runtime, for the next six months at least. We need to think hard
>> >> about
>> >> how to best manage any new functionality to the existing system whilst
>> >> we
>> >> develop that. I would like to put a line in the sand that says after
>> >> this
>> >> build, play_560 will have an example of every page template in it (this
>> >> will
>> >> be my contribution to the testing), and the html5 runtime will
>> >> (eventually)
>> >> handle every page type in the build. What's going to be hard is having
>> >> people adding new templates whilst we try and replicate the
>> >> functionality in
>> >> the new stuff.
>> >>
>> >> In the long term, we also need to give some more serious thought to the
>> >> implications of where we are going, because at some point, the HTML5
>> >> runtime
>> >> will become the primary delivery system, and we have to look to a
>> >> future
>> >> where xerte is not part of the toolkits ecosystem at all. Finger in the
>> >> air,
>> >> I'd say that's 18 months - 2 years away, but maybe less.
>> >>
>> >> Once we get stuck into the new HTML5 stuff, we won't be looking to
>> >> spend
>> >> any time on the existing interface, accessibility, etc, but will deal
>> >> with
>> >> it all 'on the other side' as it were. After April I won't be looking
>> >> to
>> >> increase the number of templates in the main distribution.
>> >>
>> >> One of the biggest challenges of all this is to come up with some
>> >> sensible
>> >> framework for the javascript / css etc that will make it easy for
>> >> developers
>> >> to add new templates in the future. I still anticipate the xwd driving
>> >> the
>> >> wizard form, and therefore some xml payload being delivered to your
>> >> code -
>> >> somehow - for you to use to drive your templates, but we haven't even
>> >> started to really think about that just yet.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for all the work since September,
>> >>
>> >> J
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Tenney Julian
>> >> Sent: 22 February 2012 13:04
>> >> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> >> Subject: RE: [Xerte-dev] Xerte 2.18 State of play
>> >>
>> >> Thanks very much Jonathan, that's brilliant
>> >> ________________________________________
>> >> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> >> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
>> >> [johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com]
>> >> Sent: 22 February 2012 12:51
>> >> To: Xerte Developers Discussion List
>> >> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Xerte 2.18 State of play
>> >>
>> >> The setting of a time frame for the next release of Xerte certainly
>> >> serves
>> >> to focus the mind.
>> >>
>> >> I have taken the liberty of trying to pull together a list of what I
>> >> think
>> >> still needs doing or deciding upon, and what has been agreed or
>> >> completed. I
>> >> am not trying to tread on anyones toes, or take over management of the
>> >> project. I just want to be sure that everything is covered, that there
>> >> are
>> >> no misunderstandings or differences in expectation, so that the project
>> >> delivers on time.
>> >>
>> >> I will upload the list to the Xerte svn in the pageWizards folder as
>> >> "Project State of Play.rtf" and have attached a copy here for
>> >> convenience.
>> >>
>> >> I am sure I will have missed somethings off the list, so please feel
>> >> free
>> >> to edit the version in the svn so that we can all keep up to date on
>> >> progress.
>> >>
>> >> As people complete things perhaps they could update the document
>> >> accordingly in the svn.
>> >>
>> >> Kind regards
>> >>
>> >> Johnathan
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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