Re: [Opentac2-developers] Agenda for OpenTAC2 developement

[Vlada D. <vla...@ya...>]

--- Seth Milder <mr...@ph...> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
> 
> Please be sure that you've installed Maven
> (http://maven.apache.org) and
> check out the current code branch (opentac2-1-0). I
> have reorganized
> everything from the main trunk as per request by
> Veljar. This includes:
> 
> 	1) Getting rid of mass amounts of unused cruft
> (tld's, jars, etc.)
> 
> 	2) Moving all JSP's under the WEB-INF directory (to
> WEB-INF/jsp);
> 
> 	3) Enforcing the notion that every page corresponds
> to an action.	I.e.,
> no referencing directly to a jsp.
> 

This part is maybe slightly off-topic. I managed to
checkout and build new branch, and I noticed that
there are fewer JSP's in WEB-INF/jsp then there were
in initial checkout. Is this OK?

> The first thing I'd like to discuss is basic design.
> The best way to
> understand the system is to look at the file
> schema/project-schema.xml.
> I am sorry there are no UML diagrams. If someone has
> a simple way of
> doing this, that'd be great!
> 
> The code is still recovering from major surgery, but
> I think it is 
> finally in a state where I think we can let the
> hacking begin! Sorry it 
> took so long, but I was first in CVS hell, followed
> by jar hell and I 
> did not want to subject anyone else to this. Anyhow,
> I still have the 
> old code up on opentac.gmu.edu, so we can at least
> use that as a loose 
> reference for the functional specs. The new code is
> still largely broken 
> due to significant changes in the way user security
> is handled and also 
> because of changes to the core schema
> (schema/project-schema.xml).
> 
> What does you guys think about everyone choosing
> certain components of 
> the code that you'll then "own?" We could almost go
> through 
> struts-config.xml and just pick actions or groups of
> actions to work on.
> 
> I think we should have a conference over IM so we
> can all discuss this 
> in real time.
> 
Maybe it's better to use IRC (just saying this because
I don't use IM :-) ). And schedule it in some
timezone-independent time.

> -- 
> Seth Milder
> Department of Physics and Astronomy
> MS 3f3
> George Mason University
> Fairfax, VA
> --
>

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