[Qa-debsources] [GSoc] Technology Discussion

[Aaron Delaney]

Hey all,

Again: apologies to the mentors for missing the initial meeting regarding
this thread and failing to alert you. It won't happen again.

I've since populated the Trello board with items, with help from orestis.

I've been working on compiling the research for the client side rendering
framework. it still needs some work though. The current main problem I'm
facing is wondering how these will actually work inside the current web
application.

I'll have to dive through the source and see how I'll convert over from
views that are rendered by the server over to JSON or websocket data
polling.

And as for meeting again, I'm free Thursday till 12:30 GMT, and Friday
2:30pm onwards.

Thanks,

Aaron


On 9 May 2016 at 09:29, Matthieu Caneill <matt at brokenwa.re> wrote:

> Hey devoxel!
>
> Thanks for the email :)
> Comments below.
>
> On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 03:15:16PM +0100, Aaron Delaney wrote:
> > Firstly I'd like to official say how happy I am to be working on Debian
> this
> > summer for GSoc with the great mentors matthieucan and orestis.
> > I don't think I've mentioned it in qa-debsources yet, so hello!
>
> I think I can speak for the whole team and say we're happy too!
>
> > Since the first goal is to make it look reasonable on mobile screens,
> > the first thing I'll go over is what I've learnt regarding
> "responsive"[1]
> > frameworks.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > - Bootstrap is feature bloated and has many parts. However we can use a
> > custom
> >   configuration [3] to take out the parts we don't need
> > - Uses a lot of preset visual styles. This makes many bootstrap web pages
> >   look similar, although this could be tuned by modifying the SASS
> variables
> >   See [3]
>
> How does it work w.r.t. the Debian bootstrap package?
> In any case, we want to keep the Debian visual, to make it look like
> the other Debian apps.
>
> > ## PureCSS [4]
> > ## Skeleton [5]
> > ## Foundation [6]
>
> ACK, thanks for the research.
>
> > Okay so that's all I'll cover now, I'll send more technology updates
> soon.
>
> Looking forward!
>
> > The main things I'm looking into now are the client side JavaScript
> > rendering
> > libraries like AngularJS or React as well as native mobile application
> > frameworks like PhoneGap.
>
> Cool. One thing to also keep in mind is how different libraries work
> together smoothly or not (that may not be obvious though).
>
> > If you have any suggestions on things to look into for these aspects of
> the
> > project please do provide input!
>
> Yes: the fact a library is packaged or not in Debian is also an
> important point to consider. That eases deployment, maintenance, and
> also the packaging of Debsources (which doesn't exist yet, but,
> *cough*, is somewhere on my todo list).
>
> Thanks again for your efforts!
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Matthieu
>
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