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Status Report – Mar 13
Mark
Status
* Added some finishing touches to the floating banners
* Started trying to implement OAuth
Next Steps
* Hopefully get the floating banners shipped out!
* Continue to work on OAuth
Roadblocks
* None this week
Steve
status
-fixed memory leak problem
-lots of testing
-created diffs
-uploaded code for review
next steps
-correct code that has been reviewed
-continue to create diffs
roadblocks
-just waiting for code to be reviewed
Crystal
Status
– Fixed up a few bugs through testing
– Cleaned up my code and adding comments
– Not sure how to do the documentation for my web api resource
– Couldn’t fix this one bug
Next Steps
– Fix this one bug (will ask during meeting)
– Document my resource
– Talk to mentor for a new project and start working on it (so excited!)
Road Blocks
– Felt ill this week
Teresa
Status
– still working on the templates
– was able to successfully add new content using an extension
Next Steps
– write up the documentation
– finish with the templates (not sure how far to break them down – could go very fine grained)
Roadblocks
– nothing really
Mengyun
Status
– work with dictionary api
– learn about js,jquery and ajax and .js with rb
– write js with my api
Next steps
– continue with js
– implement api’s update
Road Blocks
– write $(“.someclass”).action(), but it doesn’t select all that class.
Kahlil
Status
– Implemented non-unique element changes to JSON part of the models.
– Started working on screenshots XML, made good progress
– Researched on how to get code snippets into an XML format
– Worked out the XML hierarchy for code snippets
Next Steps
– Fix road blocks dealing with code snippets
– Complete xml for screenshots
Road Blocks
– Don’t know how to get all the parameters I need for code snippets
Meeting Minutes – Mar.6
- Kamlani got the XML stuff to work. Christian gave him some guidance on JSON
- Teresal fixed the loader had a good start into breaking up the templates, getting close to finishing
- Steve solved some questions with his project with the help of Christian
- Mike and Christian helped Menyun with webAPI problems confusing her
- Crystal and Mark were not at the meeting
- E-mail may be a better way than IRC to get Christian in the next few days.
A tiny performance test on Spell Error Highlight
– First, I edited the diffutils.py, using log_timed wrapping highlight functions at line 599 and 600 to help log the time cost.
– Then, created a new review request on my local reviewboard, with a large diff generated from “git diff –full-index release-1.5.2 reviewboard/webapi/tests.py >test.diff” (The diff contains 434 changes and more than 4000 lines and quite a lot strings and comments)
– went to the diff page of that request after restart local server and got log of time like this: pastie.org/1588416
– The time costs are: 1) Fetching: 3.739708 seconds; 2) Patching: 0.36519s; 3) Highlight: 2.814533s; 4) Generating diff chunks: 2.34845s
– For this diff, when not using the filter for spell errors, pastie.org/1590548
the time costs are : 1)Fetching: 1.310890 seconds; 2) Patching: 0.27146s; 3) Highlight: 1.431874s; 4) Generating diff chunks: 2.231105s
– tried another diff of reviewboard/webapi/resources.py, contains 176 changes, near 5000 lines and quite a lot strings and comments
– log of time like this: pastie.org/1588433
– The time costs are: 1) Fetching: 3.641606 seconds; 2) Patching: 0.19239s; 3) Highlight: 2.627750s; 4) Generating diff chunks: 0.267105s
– For this diff, when not using the filter for spell errors, pastie.org/1590563
the time costs are : 1)Fetching: 1.351361 seconds; 2) Patching: 0.37602s; 3) Highlight: 1.203272s; 4) Generating diff chunks: 0.263907s
Status Report – Jan 30, 2011
Teresa Hume
Status
- Working on Themes UI – built a simple Themes tab with a bunch of CharFields for editable options
- Figuring out django & python by building a mini-website
Next Steps:
- Keep getting the hang of django & python
- Build a custom form that is more appropriate for color-selection (will want an actual color-picker and have it link to the corresponding CharField) -> Label ColorSelector TextField RestoreDefaultButton
- Build a colorSelector (seen some in .js, but not sure how to link javascript components into django yet)
- Figure out how to actually implement the themes change (likely using stylesheets)
Roadblocks:
- Having some trouble posting a review this morning, I believe it is because I pushed to my github fork before post-review?
- Issue 1632… there doesn’t seem to be a clean way to fix this (or at least not one that I can see)
- Other classes (Assignments and Midterms are starting to close in…)
Steve Sutcliffe
Status
- prepared & presented a presentation about Review Board to staff & students at the U
- read up on Python
- finally figured out what Django is doing with the base/label commands and python’s role in all that
- (discovered that noargs in Django doesn’t mean noargs!)
- initial prototype for the Django Management Command prompt
Next steps
- Continue to learn python & django a bit more
- Finalize the prototype for the fill-db command
Roadblocks
- The cross-over between django & python in the Django management command is very grey, it seems to incorporate some python-related features will be very tricky, haven’t had much luck so far.
- Documentation on django management command is not that great
- Need some guidance from a python-django pro in adding ParseCommand arguments to Django’s seemingly limited implementation of the option_list
Kahlil
Status
- Completed set up of my environment for extensions
- Fixed a bug in extension code and submitted it for review (was then accepted)
- Fixed up some documentation in hooks.py for extensions, submitted this for review
- Started learning extension code, and was able to add a button in the Review area in my local environment.
- Started to learn more about Python
Next Steps
- Continue to learn about Python and get some more direction about my extension
- Learn about the Python and XML framework
- Learn about how to retrieve the review board dif details
- My plan for developing the XMLExport extension, is to first understand how XML works and then start to look into how I can apply it to what the Review Board framework offers. As far as a timeline, I don’t really have enough information to put a firm date on when I will complete the task.
Roadblocks
- Need some help in learning about the review board framework
Crystal
Status:
- Working on Quick Search Feature, researching through how it’s going to work, what is needed
- Continuing working with the mentors to figure out the best way to do this
Next steps
- Reading lots on REST API
- Getting familiar WEBAPI Resource that ReviewBoard has
- Figure out how to implement this and where to start
- Deciding what exactly to search for ex: user name, IDs, review request titles, descriptions etc…
Roadblocks
- Lost last weekend to Edmonton and being very ill while I was there. After returning to Vancouver, spent 2 days sick in bed. I’m feeling much better but I had to use the last couple of days to get through the backlog of homework and catching up while I was sick. I should be back in order by Sunday.
Mengyun
Status
- continue learning python & django
- have a quick of look on documents on pygments
- look into spell checking (articles and implements)
- try to have a general idea on javascript
- have a draft plan for semester
Next steps
- make the plan reasonable (what need to do and the timelines)
- start to work on the first task (possibly will be a simple spell check)
- need more knowledge on djbelts/django/python and Reviewboard itself
Roadblocks
- lack of knowledge on codebase of rb
- time management for 5 courses as well as rb..(already drop 1..so 4+RB now)
Mark
Status
- Looked into the post-commit UI.
- I’m planning on talking to ChipX86 today to see what I will actually be working on because the post-commit UI may not work out with just me now.
Next steps
- I will be talking to ChipX86 today before I keep working on my project.
Roadblocks
- Finding a project to actually get done is tough!
Code Sprint Day 2
What’s going on
- Post my first review! It’s for Issue1571
- Note for memorizing: 0) (pull from master) make changes; 1) git commit for the issue; 2) git push to the branch on my fork; 3) post-review it; 4) edit it on web
- In Issue1571: 1) adjust the table to fit the screen; 2) resize the fileinput widgets in forms.py; 3) fail to control the fileinput to fit the screen; 4) resize it to be fine under 800×600 under firefox; *) it works well under chrome. Need to be tested with IE and Safari.
- interested in spell checking and got nice guidance from ChipX86
Next
- Edit the description for review of issue 1571
- Do some initial research in spell checking and set some reasonable milestones for the next months
My Status on Jan 21,2011
What I’ve done
- Got the idea of reviewboard. Set it up locally and went through some crash when adding a repository.
- learnt how the urls.py works and the regular expressions as well as read about MVC (MTV) and templatetags in django.
- Tried to reproduce the problem on Issue 1632 but failed to on demo.reviewboard.org (1.6 alpha 0 dev)
- Continued to solve Issue 1571 (still keep trying).
What I’ve tried on Issue 1571:
- edit reviews.css with the width of the object but the “choose file” filename still is getting short.
- suspect it is what django does. so track to the forms.py but not sure to how to edit the feature there.
Plan
- try to do more and learn more on Issue 1571
- know more about how the whole project’s goal and plan
- have a direction where I’m going to dive into
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