Looking for webdevs to make an UnrealIRCd webpanel

[Bram M. <sy...@un...>]

Hi everyone,

As a one-time exception, not a release announcement, but a request for 
help on a new part we would like to see developed:

We are envisioning an "admin panel" where IRCOps would be able to do a 
number of server tasks, starting with:

  * Status overview / dashboard
  * Spamfilter and *LINE management: that would be a lot easier via the
    web than on IRC

These two things would already be a great start. Naturally more can be 
added, i'm sure there are lots of ideas.

The admin panel would be installed on a (web)server and would connect to 
UnrealIRCd using the new JSON-RPC API 
<https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/JSON-RPC> that is currently being 
developed. It does not have to run on the same machine as UnrealIRCd.

We are looking for webdevs who would like to help out on the HTML/CSS 
and the coding-side. Do you have experience with web development and do 
you have time this summer to work on this? If you do, what would you 
prefer/suggest?

  * Which language/environment to use? PHP? NodeJS? Python?
  * Which coding framework should be used? Eg in case of PHP: Laravel,
    Symphony, ..? In case of JS/python... what?
  * Which CSS/front end framework to use? Eg Bootstrap?

Most of the UnrealIRCd devs are backend coders with less experience on 
webdev/frontend. For us it would be relatively easy to make a 
quick-and-dirty PHP-without-famework non-AJAX "proof of concept" that is 
ugly and hard to extend. That is not what we are after. The idea is to 
have clean code that stays maintainable on the long run. We would like 
to hear who would like to work on this and what choices should be made.
On our side we can help with getting people together, hosting it as an 
official (sub)project and exchanging ideas. On the technical side we can 
provide the right API calls and options in UnrealIRCd.

We have created a new channel *#unreal-webpanel* on irc.unrealircd.org 
(IRC TLS on port 6697) that we can use for the discussion. Or you can 
reply on the forum thread 
<https://forums.unrealircd.org/viewtopic.php?t=9195>.

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