[Xerte-dev] Re: Next Release

[Dave Burnett]

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 I think more I was saying, nothing is obsolete, you could live in a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