Re: [Semanticscuttle-devel] Next tasks for SemanticScuttle

[Benjamin Huynh-Kim-B. <men...@gm...>]

Hi,
just a quick remark.
I think you are totally able to lead this project from A to Z.
If you want to put it from SVN to Git, do not hesitate any more. I do not
think I will have time to come back on this project in the future.
SemanticScuttle is now all into your hands.

It was a great pleasure to see a skillful person such as you arriving on
this project.

Good luck and good bye.


Benjamin HUYNH-KIM-BANG
http://benjamin.hkb.fr


On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Christian Weiske <cw...@cw...>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I especially welcome Mark Pemberton who volunteered to support us
> improving SemanticScuttle by hacking on the code.
>
>
> Current status
> --------------
> Until September 2009, Benjamin Huynh-Kim-Bang mostly worked on SC and
> Eric Dane committed some patches.
> Sept 2009 is the time I started hacking on SC, and released 7 new
> versions in the meantime.
>
> The new versions were feature releases as well as security and bugfix
> releases. Our latest version, 0.97.1, is mostly stable and partly
> unit-tested code. Unfortunately, there are some serious bugs in it (PHP
> parse errors/fatal errors) - all of them have been fixed in my
> repository on github.
>
> I have also been working on several major changes that are not finished
> yet and live in their own branch:
> - jQuery: replace the dojo javascript library with jQuery.
> - QuickForm: Use PEAR's HTML_QuickForm2 for all forms.
>
> The jquery port ist 90% done, we only miss a library for autocompletion
> of tags in the bookmark form. I originally tried to use the FCBKeditor
> component and hacked several months on it, but I believe we should
> start fresh or get a better one.
> It gives us the ability to host the js libs on our own server and
> finally get rid of all the javascript warnings we currently get.
>
> The quickform integration would give us the ability to easily secure our
> form with i.e. captchas, give us better validation, less code and
> better error handling.
> I already converated the registriation, login and password forgotten
> form to use quickform. Still quite a lot to do here, but I think
> it's worth it.
>
> So far about the work that's currently in progress.
>
> Getting a new version 0.97.2 with all the serious bugs fixed out should
> be the next task.
>
>
> The future
> ----------
> There are other things that I'd really like to see in SemanticScuttle
> soon:
> - Theming capability. Just extract a theme folder in data/templates/
>  and you're done. This is relatively easy work since the task is to
>  add another folder level below data/templates/, the theme folder name,
>  and implement fallbacks to the default template if the theme does not
>  ship with the requested file
> - OpenID integration. There is a feature request for it, but no work
>  has been done yet. I'd use the PEAR OpenId library for it and extend
>  the user table with an openid column. Should not be that hard :)
> - pubsubhubbub integration to propagate new bookmarks between separate
>  SC instances automatically. Imagine your friend does also have a SC
>  instance, and you simply subscribe to his bookmarks. As soon as he
>  adds a new bookmark, his SC instance notifies the hub which in turn
>  notifies your own subscribed SC instance. Your SC imports the
>  bookmark and marks it as "owned by $friend". Benefits:
>  1. search in your local SC and get find your friend's bookmarks
>  2. data get distributed so that they don't get lost easily (backup)
> - Make installation easier. I wrote some blog posts about that and hope
>  that the arbit installer gets usable soonish.
>
> Apart from that, we need a demo instance on
> http://semanticscuttle.sourceforge.net since the .fr address is down.
> Proper documentation would also be awesome, and we should decide if we
> use the trac instance or the "normal" sourceforge tracker.
>
>
> Technical details
> -----------------
> The code is hosted in a SVN repository on sourceforge[0], but I
> personally keep my branches on github[1] because I can commit offline
> in git.
> We have unit tests (based on phpunit) that cover a growing part of the
> code. Unfortunately not everything is covered - we would not have so
> many bugs - but we're on a good track.
>
>
> So much for now.
>
>
> [0] http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=svn&group_id=211356
> [1] https://github.com/cweiske/SemanticScuttle
>
> --
> Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> Christian Weiske
>
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>
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