A couple of lingering issues with our build scripts and some minor styling issues will likely keep us from freezing until mid-day tomorrow, so let's hold off on 0.3b3 QA until those get squashed.
Colin On 2010-03-03, at 4:55 PM, Colin Clark wrote: > Hi all, > > Antranig, Michelle, and I have made major progress on making Engage 0.3b > super fast. As you probably know, the source of our pokey page loads involved > repeatedly evaluating lots of large JavaScript files on each page transition. > Surprisingly, it was jQuery that was the slowest of them all. > > We've been writing some infrastructure on the server (the Condenser) and on > the client (the Screen Navigator) to enable Engage to work in an "all in one > page" AJAX environment where script dependencies are loaded only once, at > startup time. Our approach, unlike other mobile toolkits out there, is > largely unobtrusive and lets you develop content without hard-baking it for > use via AJAX. This makes content more reusable, and it makes testing and > debugging way, way easier. > > We've also introduced concatenation and minification of all essential > resources (this is just standard practice for production sites), which should > substantially improve performance on 3G connections, too. > > So, we're very close to freezing the code for 0.3b3. These changes affect all > aspects of the application, so we're going to need to kick off a full QA > cycle tomorrow morning. I'll send a note to the list with the correct URL > when we're ready to start testing. Testers, we need you! > > Our goal, assuming QA goes well, is to cut a release and redeploy the > application on Friday. Hugues, can you tell us about your testing schedule > for Friday, and suggest a time when it will be least inconvenient for us to > take the production application down and replace it with the fast version? > > James, are you willing to coordinate this next QA cycle again? You were > awesome last time! > > Colin > > --- > Colin Clark > Technical Lead, Fluid Project > http://fluidproject.org > --- Colin Clark Technical Lead, Fluid Project http://fluidproject.org _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
