TikiFest Strasbourg 2008
Photos
Table of contents
- TikiFest Strasbourg 2008
- Photos
- What
- When
- Participants
- Travel
- Agenda
- Stop support of PHP4- and/or non-MySQL databases
- Questions
- Related links
- Proposed future release schedule
- Branching and releasing structure
- Merging
- Task List
- TODO for RC2
- Version 3.0/to be discussed
- Pictures from the TikiFest
What
TikiFest is a tradition in the TikiWiki community. A TikiFest is when there is a meeting between at least 2 TikiWiki contributors that don't meet usually. This is an occasion usually for drinking adult beverages, getting laptops out and coding wildly in group sessions, discussing about wiki technology and culture, etc. depending the mood and context. It is a great opportunity for Tiki users and Tiki power users to meet some of the developers and learn more stuff 😀
When
July 9-10-11-12-13 2008 (It's official!)
A few days after RMLL 2008
Participants
Confirmed to be in person at Strasbourg
- Pascal Kustner (pkdille) local organizer
- Patrice Weber (local)
- Stéphane (sept_7) (local)
- Jyhem (Jean-Marc) (local)
- Marc Laporte arrives Tuesday July 8th 14h, leaves Monday July 14th 15h
- Louis-Philippe Huberdeau arrives July 7th at 10h, leaves Monday July 14th 15h
- Patrick Allard arrives July 7th at 10h, leaves Monday July 14th 15h
- Nelson Ko arrives July 9th in the afternoon, leaves Monday July 14th
- Alexander Mette
- arrives on 2008-07-09 at 1413 local time (GMT!?) at the main train station
- leaves on 2008-07-13 at 1745 local time (GMT!?) from the main train station
- luci arrives by car on July 9th, and leaves on the 11th
- Franck Martin "will be in Strasbourg 9 and 10 have to leave on 11"
Distant participation
- Xavi: Improving Documentation for 1.10
- Gary (chibaguy)
- Alain Désilets (testing the crap out of this thing, hopefully using the new TikiTests framework)
Invites
- Gilles Maire
- Djamel
- Niclone
- Sylvieg
- Tom B
- Redflo
- Oliver Hertel
- you?
Travel
Getting there
- luci is going by car on Wednesday July 9th morning from Switzerland so if any of local Tikians wanna join, feel free to contact him to share the ride
Hotel bookings
Difficult especially on July 9 or before because of other events happening in Strasbourg.
Booked Stuff
- 2 bookings at F1 for 9th to 10th
- nelson/amette - private double
- lphuberdeau/patrick - booked, but no idea what/how (seems to be for three nights)
- 3 bookings at Hotel Esplanade (10th to 13th)
- nelson: private double for 20 Euro/night/person (10th to 14th)
- amette+luci(10th to 11th): private triple for 15 Euro/night/person (10th to 13th)
- lphuberdeau: booked, but no idea what
Other accomodation possibilities
- Arc en Ciel
- Room for four people - Cheap(18 Euros per person per night), nice, WiFi
- Camping site
- Camping La Montagne Verte or their homepage (price from 5.60 euro for car/tent place + 3.90 per person, no wi-fi)
- Any local Tikians offering overnight sleep/accommodation for free ?
Agenda
- time to plan/discuss long term stuff (vision, etc)
- improvements to Tiki 1.10.x, possible release 1.10.0, during the event
- Release number change to Tiki 10.0 (proposal)
- improve our ongoing efficiency with better tools.
Wednesday July 9th
Introduction
Operational points
Linguistic
Hotel/accommodation
Group photo
See attached files below
Demos/Discussions/Planning
TRIM (lphuberdeau)
Wiki-translation.com (lphuberdeau)
profiles.tiki.org (lphuberdeau)
Code indentation (pkdille)
pkdille will prepare a proposal
UI topics, Common Layout proposal (pkdille) & Template simplification (jyhem) easier for designers
Thursday July 10th
Presentations of each participant
Someone to introduce sept7 who is absent today
Stop support of PHP4- and/or non-MySQL databases
PHP4 support will be dropped in version 3.0
non-MySQL will be revisited later
Technical release 1.10/2.0 (lphuberdeau)
New page: ReleaseNotes20
Demos/Discussions/Planning
Friday July 11th
Performance (nkoth for Moz)
Low hanging fruits for Yslow? incremental things can be done - js compressing, css.
Merge Mozilla patches.
Tiki Core Project (nyloth)
- TikiCore
Priority is to re-organize core libs like tikilib.php. This will be done in a way that is backward compatible at first, i.e. the current libs will remain a wrapper for the new lib/core/lib.php. The aim is to provide a more stable, more readable, and better documented core. It should also make the creation of a lightweight API to these functions easily (the lightweight API will be gradually incrementally added on a needs-basis -> the aim is not to architecture a framework but to really focus on making our lives or way of calling these libs easier -> i.e. incremental approach vs. design and build approach).
Reminder: main scripts should not call sql directly.
Unit tests for TikiCore
We need tests - figure out a way to do this at the same time we do this TIkiCore. new TikiCore should be progressively introduced to ensure proper testing framework in in first.
- Documented API
Document existing API first --- light API around it will be nice to have.
Use Cases (marclaporte)
Use Cases review
TikiTests (sept_7)
TikiObjects (sept_7)
New object-oriented and centralized storage for data and meta-data
- New TikiObject proposal
File Gallery enhancements
Saturday July 11th
- TikiCore Concrete Example
Mods
- jyhem will add a field about reason why something is in mods
- Add manual installation doc. (marclaporte)
- Nelson may spend some time for minor enhancements
Ajax
Nyloth will split the feature checks
WikiSyntax + table editor
WYSIWYG (saving as html or as wiki syntax) & TikiDav (Open Office and WebDav)
plugins
lphuberdeau will rework the interface and make them all optional
Fixperms.sh vs setup.sh
Nyloth will merge
Hosting needs (ex.: doc.tw.o needs to move. mods, etc)
- New dedicated server for tikiwiki.org (amette & jyhem) for irc.tw.o, doc.tw.o and maybe tikiwiki.org
Use any font in TikiWiki (not just web fonts)
Use any font in TikiWiki (not just web fonts) (patrick)
Viral TikiWiki
- Automatic bug reporting and voluntary stats submission (like Debian popularity contest)
Release process and frequency
- Every 6 months
- For security releases, they will include bug fixes until then. We will not release just security, without anterior bugfixes (too complicated)
- We intend to release 2.x to 2.y tarballs.
Still to be discussed
- Marc to check the bug list and make short list of things to fix
- Discuss on the current state of Tiki
- Long term vision & goals
- Community organization
- Day to day tools
- Dev topics & demos
- Smarty functions and blocks to be used in every templates (nyloth)
- propagate smarty plugins
- Category permissions (what should it do?, what is a bug?)
- Revamp perms (and especially for category perms) + perms through tikiobjects discussion
- CRM
- Workspaces
- Security Dashboard presentation
- Staging and approval (nkoth)
- Prochain TikiFest
Distant participation agenda
(suggest items and add you name next to it if you are interested that this is addressed by the distant participants, as much as they are skilled to and willing to do it)
Done
- Linking a tracker to the registration process in tw.o, so that new users in tw.o can decide to join TW Community, beyond being simply registered users at tw.o. (See more information at WhoWhat page):
- In favor: xavi, marclaporte
Offering to work on that: xavi - Comments:
- http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-register.php allows chosing from plain registered or "TwCommunity" group. If TwCommunity group is chosen, and simple tracker8 is shown for the user to fill it in: a simple checkbox is shown.
- Related bugs to be fixed yet:
- compulsory checkbox needs to be ensured that it's working (it was not before). See bug report.
- username should be seen at tracker8. See bug report
- some weird duplication of the static text field is shown below.
- In favor: xavi, marclaporte
- how to add a tracker on 1.10 to request more information from users at registration time. Rick and Xavi
http://doc.tiki.org/User+Tracker
- Improve documentation and usability on trackers (they are very powerful, but new users and power users don't know yet how to use their advanced features) :
- how to link information from two trackers (like offers and demands in an exchange network):
Linking Trackers
- how to link information from two trackers (like offers and demands in an exchange network):
To be done
- Fill in "Use Cases" information at: http://info.tiki.org/Use+Cases and making profiles
and Finishing TikiProfilesNGO. Xavi will wait until I know how to use the new profile methodology (profiles.tw.o)
- Improve documentation and usability on trackers (they are very powerful, but new users and power users don't know yet how to use their advanced features) :
- improve explanation shown on each tracker filed type at design time. Non coders can't understand the current explanation (which is very hard to understand for non-coders => unusable for new users and power users).
(or making a profile?)
Offering to work on that: xavi
- improve explanation shown on each tracker filed type at design time. Non coders can't understand the current explanation (which is very hard to understand for non-coders => unusable for new users and power users).
- Task:
- In favor:
Offering to work on that: - Considering it's not urgent for these TikiFestStrasbourg days:
- In favor:
Many ideas at Community Projects, Ongoing Community Tasks and PromoSquad
Questions
Can we broadcast session?
We could use http://www.dimdim.com to broadcast some of the sessions, best if we have ready made slides to upload on DimDim
Related links
Proposed future release schedule
Please see RoadMap
Branching and releasing structure
Merging
- On an ongoing basis, merging must be done from Stable to Dev
- When in release mode, merging must be done as well.
- From the various experimental branches to Dev
Task List
- Basic styles list + documentation (Luci)
- Split main css file and move basic styles into css/basic.css (nyloth)
- Add an admin panel to specify 5 preferred colors + font-sizes + width of right and left columns (who ?)
- document common smarty plugins with a code example (tiki-example.tpl) (nyloth)
- modify "site identity" admin page to add icons at the top that will allow to choose the global layout (columns activated or not, ...) -> see: http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lessons/boxes.html
- Create some different icons for each official theme (Patrick Allard)
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Change doc so newbies should checkout trunk, and not branches/2.0
TODO for RC2
- remove BETA from the installer
- secDB change 2.0 to 2.0RC2 for RC2
Version 3.0/to be discussed
- default diff post 1.9.x
- http://dev.tiki.org/tiki-admin_notifications.php -> problem on upgrade
- check default settings like WYSIWYCA & default settings for inter user messages
- Plan next TikiFests
- Should the new message (post-edit wiki page) be changed or removed? MoinMoin fait: Thank you for your changes. Your attention to detail is appreciated.
Clear message
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