[Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 Release

Mon Nov 12 11:35:35 GMT 2012

I have a lot of submits to make tonight, and some questions (today's
question was just the beginning) re developments / changes.

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Julian Tenney <
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> http://titanpad.com/xerte19 for shared notes, etc. Actually the deadlines
> are not far away because both Fay and I have holiday outstanding so will be
> finishing sometime before Christmas. So, it would be good to get all the
> coding complete for this release by 30th November so we can put the zip
> out with a few days to spare,****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Smith, John
> *Sent:* 12 November 2012 11:31
>
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 Release****
>
> ** **
>
> Hi,****
>
> ** **
>
> An update from me…****
>
> ** **
>
> **·         **I’ll have a go at deep linking Xenith today or tonight now
> that the IDs are being stored and the methods are there to use them. I
> suppose I should use the same parameters as the flash version…****
>
> ** **
>
> **·         **I’ve done the plain text connector for Xenith and it works
> somewhat. Will pick another relatively easy one and make a start before Fay
> returns and then touch base with her as I’ve run into an issue with
> navigation not hiding when required…****
>
> ** **
>
> **·         **textDrawing model  is 95% done. I’ve identified 15 tools
> and now they all work, some 100% and some maybe 95% - subject to my testing
> anyway. Will upload that soon for others to hopefully test.****
>
> ** **
>
> **·         **I’ve made a list of the still outstanding basic models with
> some notes and a rough guess of the complexity/how long they will take to
> do. Will discuss with Fay as we need to share a buglist too as a few things
> have come up which I’m wondering whether she is aware of and I know that
> some of my first attempt models are not 100% as I didn’t have a proper dev
> friendly environment setup, which I do now.****
>
> ** **
>
> **·         **I have also started work on a document listing how I have
> setup to develop which may help anyone else coming on board. Took me a
> while to get it working well but now I have something that I am happy with
> so it may help others in the same boat.****
>
> ** **
>
> Also, need to mention phpStorm. Having been using it intensively over the
> past few days I like it. So would recommend it to anyone wanting to get
> involved in the Xenith side of things. Most if not all of the HTML5
> specific tags are present and the context highlighting etc is pretty good…
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> 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<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* Monday, November 12, 2012 11:12 AM
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] 1.9 Release****
>
> ** **
>
> We have signposted the 1.9 release for Christmas for a while: it’s not far
> away now.****
>
> ** **
>
> We have the ongoing template work that Fay is leading that we want to
> include, although it won’t be finished. What else do we want to finish off
> and roll into the live code? I do not want to miss this deadline, there are
> loads of people asking me about Xenith, even calling me up out of the blue
> to ask when it will be ready… so we need to make a list and plan. Things
> I’m aware of:****
>
> ** **
>
> - The connectors / linkID stuff;****
>
> - deep linking;****
>
> - Pat’s modularisation stuff (can we merge this into trunk now?);****
>
> ** **
>
> What else is there?****
>
> ** **
>
> How shall we keep track of this stuff?****
>
> ** **
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