[Openinteract-dev] OI2 status report 2005-Feb-24

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

OI2 status report (2005-02-24)
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For the first status report an overview is probably in order. Here's
what I see right now as upcoming releases, subject to change as
typical:

 2.0 beta 6 (1.99_06)
   Target: mid March
   - Fix the remaining issues in JIRA
   - Cleanup log messages according to recent emails as much as possible
   - While doing that localize error messages throughout system.

 2.0 beta 7 (1.99_07)
   Target: late April
   - Fix outstanding issues.
   - Integrate existing 'delicious_tags' package to core and replace
     some application functionality with it (like news sections).
   - Finish log message cleanup.
   - Finish localizing error messages.
   - Get someone who knows design to help out with website/CSS
   - Get infrastructure to support Class::DBI and simple
     sample app working (need to learn more)

 2.0
   Target: late May, early June
   - Hopefully small fixes
   - More localization messages?

Recent work lately has been:

  - 80% done: Being able to package and install OI2 application
  packages using CPAN tools. So you'll be able to do something like:

   # install to local perl
   > perl -MCPAN -e 'install OpenInteract2::App::PhotoManager'

   # install to local website method 1
   perl -MOpenInteract2::App::PhotoManager -e 'install()'

   # install to local website method 2
   > oi2_manage install_package --class=OpenInteract2::App::PhotoManager

  - 95% done: Create little objects and an organizer to figure out which
  OI2::Action object to run based on the URL (or whatever). I
  referenced this in a recent journal post:

     http://www.cwinters.com/news/display/?news_id=3333

  This is in OI2::ActionResolver and children and kicked off in
  OI2::Controller.

  - 95% done: Create little objects and an organizer to run setup
  routines; this tore apart the monolithic OI2::Setup class into a
  number of little classes that get organized at runtime by
  Algorithm::Dependency. This change makes it possible to easily add
  your own routines that get run at server startup -- all you need to
  do is be in the OI2::Setup namespace and tell us a little about
  yourself (name and dependencies).

  - 100% done: Added FastCGI interface. I haven't used FastCGI before
  but it works and seems simple enough...

  - 80% done: Rewriting the 'base_error' package and its support to
  not store errors in the database but use the filesystem instead.

I can go into detail on these, but this is already a long email...

Later,

Chris

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Chris Winters (ch...@cw...)
Building enterprise-capable snack solutions since 1988.