[Grok-dev] Grok forest sprint report

Souheil CHELFOUH trollfot at gmail.com
Mon Nov 8 05:41:46 EST 2010


Hello.
Thank you for the summary, indeed.
As for zope2.13, it has been released officially now, so it can be
more intensely tested.
Thank you everyone for the acheivements.

2010/11/8 Sylvain Viollon <sylvain at infrae.com>:
> On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:37:42 +0100
> Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>
>  Hello,
>
>> Last week we had a very successful sprint in a lovely converted barn
>> in the forest in Germany.
>>
>> The atmosphere was great, we had great hosts and great company, and
>> thanks also to Uli for arranging everything! I personally came to the
>> sprint a bit dispirited, but so much cool stuff was going on and
>> discussed that I'm now feel quite energized.
>>
>> Some of the things we did (please add to this when I forget);
>>
>> * many many bugs in the launchpad bug tracker were closed,
>> reevaluated, and updated.
>>
>> * the long-standing Martian improvements finally landed in Grok
>> itself.
>>
>> * various strange group authorization issues were explored and tests
>> were written. We now are in a better position to eventually rewrite
>> the way this works.
>>
>> * started work on a dedicated static resource publisher as part of
>> hurry.resource. This would combine the lessons learned from a while
>> of hurry.resource usage, z3c.hashedresource and some experimenting I
>> did with search, with some new ideas. hurry.resource would totally
>> take over the publishing of static resources, taking that job away
>> from Zope. Jan-Jaap, is a branch checked in?
>>
>> * various directives were moved to lower-level packages for greater
>> reuse.
>>
>> * splitted off grokcore.json from Grok itself. grokcore.rest and
>> grokcor.xmlrpc are to follow.
>>
>> * discussions on the future role of the "grok" package now that it
>> will contain less code. grok's __init__.py would contain conditional
>> imports from the various Grok packages, with a warning if an import
>> wasn't possible. By default, grokproject would install all grokcore.*
>> deps, but a developer may remove some.
>>
>> * discussed a new publisher and decided on a few approaches to take
>>
>> * got a sketch for the new publisher on bitbucket:
>> http://bitbucket.org/faassen/dawnlight
>>
>> * demonstrations and discussion about many things Dolmen. We also
>> visited actual real life dolmen in the woods nearby, about 5000 years
>> old!
>>
>> * demonstrations and discussions of javascript-driven views and forms.
>>
>> * advanced testing (including javascript with selenium) discussions
>>
>> * explored the py.test testrunner for a few projects
>>
>> * work on zeam.setup, a potential buildout/setuptools replacement
>>
>> * started to maintain community documentation in Sphinx on bitbucket
>>
>> * work on running Grok without the ZODB; there's a grokcore.setup
>> branch for this now.
>>
>> * implementation of a json schema implementation that can also do
>> content conversion for JSON input, along with some other features:
>> http://bitbucket.org/faassen/jsonor. JSON plays a more and more
>> important part in web development and this will help us get better
>> support for it.
>>
>
> * I tested the latest Grok packages on Zope 2: because of dependencies
>  issues grokcore.view 1.12.x is used with Zope 2.12. But on Zope 2.13,
>  all the latest packages grokcore packages can be used, and seems to
>  work correctly. There is a branch of five.grok for Zope 2.13 in the
>  svn. However not all the test are passing because of bugs in Zope
>  2.13 (resources implementation).
>
> Sylvain,
>
>
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