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<font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b> xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett [d_b_burnett@hotmail.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 29 February 2012 20:37<br>
<b>To:</b> xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Next Release<br>
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> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:32:49 +0000<br>
> From: patrick.lockley@googlemail.com<br>
> To: xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Next Release<br>
> <br>
> Yes, to seismologists.<br>
> <br>
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > Would you keep selling caves on the San Andreas fault if you knew an<br>
> > earthquake was imminent?<br>
> > ;-)<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> >> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:28:47 +0000<br>
> >> From: patrick.lockley@googlemail.com<br>
> >> To: xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
> >> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Next Release<br>
> >><br>
> >> I think more I was saying, nothing is obsolete, you could live in a<br>
> >> cave if you wanted to, but some people like doors, but doors need a<br>
> >> little work.<br>
> >><br>
> >> 1.7 / trunk and 1.8 are massively out of sync I'd guess.<br>
> >><br>
> >> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Julian Tenney<br>
> >> <Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:<br>
> >> > As long as we're close, we can manage it. Thanks.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > ________________________________<br>
> >> > From: xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
> >> > [xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan<br>
> >> > [johnathan.kemp@ntlworld.com]<br>
> >> > Sent: 29 February 2012 15:13<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > To: For Xerte technical developers<br>
> >> > Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Next Release<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > It may be a bit tight to get all the Connector pages done by then but I<br>
> >> > will<br>
> >> > give it a go. If they arrive a few days later can I still sneak them in?<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Before I do any more on the routed pages I will finish off the work on<br>
> >> > the<br>
> >> > existing templates now that the work on the xwd is finished.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > The biggest issue I can see is the one of passing the name value from<br>
> >> > the<br>
> >> > xml data to be displayed as the page title and to populate the toc. Will<br>
> >> > this all be done in the supporting swf files or will it be necessary to<br>
> >> > alter the model files?<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Kind regards<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Johnathan<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > On 29 February 2012 14:37, Julian Tenney<br>
> >> > <Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk><br>
> >> > wrote:<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> Hi,<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> I'd really like to get the next version done for 30th March, so I<br>
> >> >> reckon<br>
> >> >> that gives a little bit of time to add any new bits and pieces, and<br>
> >> >> then,<br>
> >> >> from Monday 5th March we concentrate on testing what's there and<br>
> >> >> putting<br>
> >> >> that straight. The testing needs to complete by around 23rd (or more or<br>
> >> >> less) so we can start thinking about making the builds etc.<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> Is that OK with everyone?<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> As a heads up, after that we are going to be looking at developing the<br>
> >> >> html5 runtime, for the next six months at least. We need to think hard<br>
> >> >> about<br>
> >> >> how to best manage any new functionality to the existing system whilst<br>
> >> >> we<br>
> >> >> develop that. I would like to put a line in the sand that says after<br>
> >> >> this<br>
> >> >> build, play_560 will have an example of every page template in it (this<br>
> >> >> will<br>
> >> >> be my contribution to the testing), and the html5 runtime will<br>
> >> >> (eventually)<br>
> >> >> handle every page type in the build. What's going to be hard is having<br>
> >> >> people adding new templates whilst we try and replicate the<br>
> >> >> functionality in<br>
> >> >> the new stuff.<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> In the long term, we also need to give some more serious thought to the<br>
> >> >> implications of where we are going, because at some point, the HTML5<br>
> >> >> runtime<br>
> >> >> will become the primary delivery system, and we have to look to a<br>
> >> >> future<br>
> >> >> where xerte is not part of the toolkits ecosystem at all. Finger in the<br>
> >> >> air,<br>
> >> >> I'd say that's 18 months - 2 years away, but maybe less.<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> Once we get stuck into the new HTML5 stuff, we won't be looking to<br>
> >> >> spend<br>
> >> >> any time on the existing interface, accessibility, etc, but will deal<br>
> >> >> with<br>
> >> >> it all 'on the other side' as it were. After April I won't be looking<br>
> >> >> to<br>
> >> >> increase the number of templates in the main distribution.<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> One of the biggest challenges of all this is to come up with some<br>
> >> >> sensible<br>
> >> >> framework for the javascript / css etc that will make it easy for<br>
> >> >> developers<br>
> >> >> to add new templates in the future. I still anticipate the xwd driving<br>
> >> >> the<br>
> >> >> wizard form, and therefore some xml payload being delivered to your<br>
> >> >> code -<br>
> >> >> somehow - for you to use to drive your templates, but we haven't even<br>
> >> >> started to really think about that just yet.<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> Thanks for all the work since September,<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> J<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> -----Original Message-----<br>
> >> >> From: Tenney Julian<br>
> >> >> Sent: 22 February 2012 13:04<br>
> >> >> To: For Xerte technical developers<br>
> >> >> Subject: RE: [Xerte-dev] Xerte 2.18 State of play<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> Thanks very much Jonathan, that's brilliant<br>
> >> >> ________________________________________<br>
> >> >> From: xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
> >> >> [xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan<br>
> >> >> [johnathan.kemp@ntlworld.com]<br>
> >> >> Sent: 22 February 2012 12:51<br>
> >> >> To: Xerte Developers Discussion List<br>
> >> >> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Xerte 2.18 State of play<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> The setting of a time frame for the next release of Xerte certainly<br>
> >> >> serves<br>
> >> >> to focus the mind.<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> I have taken the liberty of trying to pull together a list of what I<br>
> >> >> think<br>
> >> >> still needs doing or deciding upon, and what has been agreed or<br>
> >> >> completed. I<br>
> >> >> am not trying to tread on anyones toes, or take over management of the<br>
> >> >> project. I just want to be sure that everything is covered, that there<br>
> >> >> are<br>
> >> >> no misunderstandings or differences in expectation, so that the project<br>
> >> >> delivers on time.<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> I will upload the list to the Xerte svn in the pageWizards folder as<br>
> >> >> "Project State of Play.rtf" and have attached a copy here for<br>
> >> >> convenience.<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> I am sure I will have missed somethings off the list, so please feel<br>
> >> >> free<br>
> >> >> to edit the version in the svn so that we can all keep up to date on<br>
> >> >> progress.<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> As people complete things perhaps they could update the document<br>
> >> >> accordingly in the svn.<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> Kind regards<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> Johnathan<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >><br>
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