[Xerte-dev] Re: Next Release

[Pat Lockley]

I think more I was saying, nothing is obsolete, you could live in a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.
>
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> [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
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>> 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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