[Xerte-dev] Re: Next Release

Thu Mar 1 09:57:09 GMT 2012

We have the trunk, and 1.7 and 1.8. I thought trunk is what we were currently zipping up, so what's the best approach.

I'm happy to press the buttons, but I'm not sure I have a lot of insight as to what's actually happening with the code...

I'll re make all the templates stuff from the xerte SVN, so not worried about that, it's just the php stuff.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 29 February 2012 22:02
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Next Release

lets try and do this by the end of next week.

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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 Lockley [patrick.lockley at googlemail.com]
Sent: 29 February 2012 20:42
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Next Release

Do a diff across the two (I think tortoise has a branch or commit or
merge or something).

The logic is merge 1.7 into 1.8, expect 1.8 to then break (i would guess)

Freeze 1.7 and then fix 1.8.

Then 1.8 goes into trunk, and 1.9 is made for "developing"

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>1.7 / trunk and 1.8 are massively out of sync I'd guess.
> I'm not sure either. How do we resolve this? I don't see much need to change
> anything o the web-app / php side from now on in, other than your sessions
> idea, I'm not aware of anything being worked on. So we can start getting to
> a good source now?
>
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> [d_b_burnett at hotmail.com]
> Sent: 29 February 2012 20:31
> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Next Release
>
>
> 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 I think more I was saying, nothing is obsolete, you could live in a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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