Seasprint2012ploneconferencereportout

SEA SPRINT 2012 Plone Conference 2012 Report OutChris Calloway, Andrew Leeb, Ian Anderson, Timo Stollenwerk University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CREDITS:Individual Sponsors Gonzalo Almieda Philip Bauer Elizabeth Leddy Gildardo Bautista Stephen McMahon Chris Calloway Alec Mitchell Enzo Cesanelli Calvin Hendryx-Parker Thiago Curvelo Ross PattersonMaurizio Delmonte Jeremy Phillips Cris Ewing Serge Renfer Patrick Gerken Asko SoukkaMatthew Hamilton Eric Steele Dan Jacka Ulrich Stockschlaeder Andreas Jung

CREDITS:Platinum Corporate Sponsor

CREDITS:Gold Corporate Sponsors

CREDITS:Silver Corporate Sponsors

CREDITS: ParticipantsGonzalo Almieda (ﬂecox)Ian Anderson (ianderso)Chris Calloway (cbcunc)Cris Ewing (cewing)Rok Garbas (garbas)Nathan Van Gheem (vangheem)Rob Gietema (robgietema)David Glick (davisagli)Calvin Hendryx-Parker (calvinhp)Andrew Leeb (ableeb)Clayton Parker (claytron)Ross Patterson (rpatterson)Eric Steele (esteele)Timo Stollenwerk (tisto)

CREDITS:Remote ParticipantsEd ManloveThe Cafecito Sprint TeamUCLA OIT

SPRINT ORGANIZATION: Total Budget$13,500 USD

SPRINT ORGANIZATION: Focused Topic•Most important key to a successful sprint•Game changer: Deco•Target: Plone 4.x

SPRINT ORGANIZATION: Time And Place•Sprint, eat, sleep, sprint•Attractive location•Airport accessible•Good enough network

SPRINT ORGANIZATION: Time And Place•Off-season availability•Prior to Plone Conference•Scheduled around other events

SPRINT ORGANIZATION: Invitations•Examined repository activity for related packages•Deco, toobar, tiles, blocks, CMSUI, collective.cover

SPRINT ORGANIZATION: Fundraising•Chipin.com•Plone Foundation strategic sprint•Plone Foundation as ﬁnancial agent•Plone News•Planet Plone

SPRINT ORGANIZATION: Logistics•Coactivate.org•Blog•Email lists•Wikis•To-do lists

SPRINT ORGANIZATION: Logistics•Temporary housing•Airport pickups•Vans to Oak Island•Kick-off dinner•Meal service

Sea Sprint Report out Oak Island, NC Sept 21 - 24

12 StepProgram

• Focus on UI Implementation• Prototype Layout Editor - lots and lots of Javascript• Lots and lots of Javascript testing - coverage reports, linting, acceptance tests• zope.testbrowser had no javascript support• plone.app.toolbar - use ﬁrst version• plone.app.deco - out of date tests• plone.app.imagetile• plone.app.texttile

• UI Team - consistency with editing• Deco Layout Team - initial version with drop zones, fixed width drop zones• Toolbar - overlays, iframes oh my!• Text Tile - TinyMCE loading serial reuse issue• Image Tile - image shows, but is not editable, traversal issues, no scaling, notifies ContentModified• Testing - unit tests, BusterJS integration, coverage, robotframework coverage

• There was no js test coverage• plone.app.deco unit tests out of date• More than half of the team worked on testing

• Functioning Layout Editor - arbitrary columns and rows• Functioning Tiles - editing works, image stored on tile, TinyMCE loads correctly every time• Jenkins grid for Selenium, Windows VMs for multiple IE• Test coverage for Deco javascript nearly 100%!• Buster.JS integration with zope testrunner - no excuses• Documentation - cull out of date, aggregate docs via Sphinx from packages: tiles, deco, toolbar, blocks, panels, layout. Docs dev + narrative are at github/buildout.deco

• Flexible layouts, add/remove rows and columns, resize as needed, add tiles.• Rearrange tiles as you wish, move content from one area to another.• http://www.coactivate.org/projects/seasprint-2012/blog/

The Problemhttp://www.ohloh.net/p/plone

Robot Framework● Generic test automation framework● Developed by Nokia Siemens● Open Source● Selenium Plugin for browser tests

Acceptance Tests● Keyword-driven● Behavior-driven● Data-driven

Robot Framework A c pa c c e tn e T ss et

Robot Keywords for Plone http://ploneact.readthedocs.org/

Jenkins● Windows / Linux / Mac OS X● Firefox / Chrome / IE

Javascript Unit Tests● Testrunner Integration● Deco Unit Tests

Templer / ZopeSkel● Tile● plone_basic● ...

Thoughts and Future Directions

Future Directions• Remaining bugs in layout editor • no undo • smarter resizing columns• Further testing for layout editor • No drag and drop tests (yet)• Testing for tiles - Templer!!!

Future Directions• Need more tiles • Replacement tiles for existing core viewlets • Migration path from portlets, viewlets • Replace portlet machinery with Deco theme editor/tile mechanics

Future Directions• Integration with Diazo theming• Toolbar Placement (with content, or at top)• Editing is now done in different ways based upon Deco or Dexterity.• Metadata is un-editable on a Deco page.

Potential Issues• Introduction of more complexity in theme• Introduction of (more) iframes • Context can be lost• Potential for impacting accessability

Thoughts• We need to have a way of incorporating new web technologies like Bootstrap into Plone in a manageable, reproducible way.• Deco brings about a new way of interacting with the layout of a Deco page, and the ability to make items like landing pages in a very interactive way.

Seasprint2012ploneconferencereportout

by ableeb on Oct 11, 2012

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