[Xerte-dev] Re: LAtest Xerte Build

[Julian Tenney]

Yeah, I now, there's loads of new good stuff in this: a lot has changed since September. I'm hoping the html5 update could be a simple 'unzip, over the top' job. Let's get this finished and released then, so no new stuff now, just tidy up all the work we've done and get it out there. I'm off next week, but this week I have some time and will help where I can,

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 28 May 2012 12:00
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: LAtest Xerte Build

it's hard to say without knowing what the html5 change is - i'd have
guessed the change is a new play.php file in the xerte module? Which
isn't much of an upgrade - compared to this one.

Remember it isn't just internationalisation - we've now got non-ldap
auth in as well, and I'd think that's bigger than HTML5

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:
> Looking at the things we said on the normal list, people are waiting for
> 1.8, I don't think Xerte standalone is such an issue, you can even install
> two versions if you want to.
>
> What I really want to do is see whether you can edit an existing LO with the
> current Nottingham template.
>
> I don't really know how big multi-language is compared to HTML5, but I have
> certainly a lot of people waiting on it... We have over 350 people using our
> rudimentary (unmaintainable) Dutch xot translation. And that's just the
> people who weren't willing to wait.
>
> But I do concur, we can't wait indefinitely, and we can't have people doing
> to many (big) releases in a short time.
>
> On the other hand, if you hold off, you end up at some point fixing issues
> in the current 1.7 release...
>
> Op 28-5-2012 12:45, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> No problem. Thank you for all your contributions so far.
>
>
>
> What do we want to do with this release? Here's the thing: in October we
> will have some of the HTML5 support and will need to release it when the
> Xenith project completes. If we get much closer to October, we will be
> saying to users 'here's an update', cue much hassle for them updating etc,
> and then less than a few months later we're going to put them through the
> same thing - that isn't going to win us any friends if we do those releases
> too close to each other.
>
>
>
> There comes a point where if we don't release this build, we wait. I don't
> know where that point is, but it is getting nearer all the time. There
> really isn't much left to do, I think, and I think if we don't have this
> ready by the end of June, we wait. I don't want to wait because I expect the
> summer time is a good time for people to do upgrades etc, but maybe that
> isn't necessarily the case, but I think making two releases in less than 3
> months is too frequent. Also, I suspect the HTML5 output will be a bigger
> draw than multi-language support, for most people, and I don't want to do
> anything that stops people engaging with the HTML5 work.
>
>
>
> What do you all think?
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
> Sent: 28 May 2012 11:35
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: LAtest Xerte Build
>
>
>
> I can do that, but not this week. It's really quite a lot of work and I have
> spend already some significant time on xerte this weekend.
>
> Op 28-5-2012 12:08, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> Attached are some new icons currently missing from the pages menu and
> wizard.
>
>
>
> I'm still unsure which xwd I should be adding these to. would you mind
> adding them to the xerte editor's library, and adding them to the right xwd
> file for toolkits please? They will need adding as icons in the wizard's
> library as well
>
>
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 28 May 2012 10:15
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] LAtest Xerte Build
>
>
>
> Things I can see that need doing are:
>
>
>
> Icons
>
> When I used the menu to change the language to french, it didn't appear that
> anything happened (should we confirm to the user the new choice?), but the
> wizard, when I ran it, was in English?
>
> Advanced Display. Does this have to be the first child of a LO? Also, it's
> not a page of content: this might break things that assume that children of
> LO are pages, particularly in situations where the navigation is 'menu'.
>
>
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