[Xerte-dev] Re: Version 2.1

[Smith, John]

I think I had in mind for the API to be more of a Public API hence the levels of signing that are employed... and the security overhead hoops to jump through - have you installed it yet and tried it?

There is so much ajax going on though that having them all funnelled through api endpoints would be kinda cool and we'd only need to check is_admin() or has a valid session depending on the destination route which would be as efficient as just now... a LOT of work though!!

I take Ron's point seriously on board though regarding the auto update thing and the way lots of people people have probably "hacked" their own changes locally - this has been highlighted most buy RonM2's Knowledgeware problems recently and the fact that he's now stuck at 1.7... I think this is where the plugins will come into their own...

I know it's quite easy to just hard code html things like the menus in management and properties etc but having all of these things done more flexibly might take a bit more coding but will help us in the long run I think... for example if we had an array holding the tab names, function names, other info etc then we could pass that through a plugin filter and simply add a few, or only in certain situations... such as adding the api button, a lot of functionality could be done in "core" plugins the way drupal, etc does it...

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat @ Pgogy  [xerte at pgogywebstuff.com]
Sent: 09 July 2013 20:10
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Version 2.1

I would give 2.1 a miss as a number

Reasoning

A lot of the code is quite old and could do with a once over, spring clean

When writing the API we could make all the Ajax end points into API end points

MySQL is dying out in php 5.3 so bits of the install and the code will stop working

Make management side easier

Neaten up root, which is cluttered up now

I think bundling things like site details into site options makes sense as a bigger number change

Then we could have a more reliable framework for moving forward

Plugins / API end points / themes - so developers can easily add in new things without worrying about core

On 9 Jul 2013, at 13:53, "Smith, John" <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk<mailto:J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk>> wrote:

I think the community might be expecting .1 increments now… API will be done long before the HTML Wizard so it would be good to do incremental releases and we need to sort out the sitedetails vs site_options horizontal/vertical database thing and do a small release…

If we wait until v3.0 then no one will update until then as there will have been no ‘BIG LAUNCH’ and instead of being 3 releases away (1.7-2.0) they will be further!!

>From memory we’ll have:

Stuff nearly there:
Plugins (soonish - hopefully)
App Store/Extend (almost there if not already)
API (soon)

Longer terms stuff:
HTML Wizard (3-6 months away at least)
Theme (?? Dunno)
Experience/Tin-Can API (6-12 months??)

Plus we have a lot of bugfixes in v2.0 since release – people won’t update unless they think they need to… but perhaps Tom could organize this to automate v2.0.1 etc and possibly even v2.1-9

Anyway… ramble over…

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 9:49 AM
To: For Xerte technical developers (xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>)
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Version 2.1

Best start  new thread on this topic: what and when for 2.1?

With all the automated builds, it really helps – there isn’t so much of a need to push all the fixes into a release, so we could stick with 2.0 and think about 3.0, which would be:


-          API

-          HTML Wizard

-          New theme / branding / look and feel (we’ve started looking at this)

-          +?

But there is a lot of work in there…

Thoughts?


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