On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 12:59 +0300, Bjorn Tillenius wrote: > Hi guys, > > so, it's time for the Technical Architect team to tackle its first task. > Create the Launchpad Architectural Vision. > > First of all, what is it? It's aimed to be documents that describe the > different parts of Launchpad. It will explain how Launchpad works, which > moving parts are involved, and how it will fit together. It will also > explain the various sub-systems, and explain how to do various things in > Launchpad code. For example, how do I send and receive e-mail? How do I > add an html page? How do I write a script? Etc. > > An important goal of the Vision is to avoid people doing duplicate work, > so it should document that canonical way of doing various things in > Launchpad. If you implement a new feature, and for example don't know > how the implementation should look like, the Vision should be the place > to look, to see what existing code you can re-use. That's why I want to > focus on things that are shared (or supposed to be shared) across > applications to start with. > > I need your help, though! It's a lot of work, and some of you have a lot > of expertise of certain areas of Launchpad. I need help figuring out > what should be included in the Vision. I also need volunteers describing > the different parts. For example, someone from the Code team would be a > good candidate writing about the job system. Although, not necessarily. > If you're interested in how a certain part works, trying to document it > is a great way of learning! Also, you don't have to volunteer yourself, > finding other volunteers is also acceptable :) > > These are the things I thought of so far that should be included: > > * Overview of Launchpad and its moving parts > * job system > * e-mail (sending/receiving) > * Database garbage collection (garbo) > * expose API methods/attributes > * Web app > * Browser views > * TAL formatters
* Breadcrumbs * canonical_url * AJAX > * Librarian > * Comments > * DB Schema Master/slave DBs and when/how to use them Vocabularies, maybe? > * LaunchpadScript > * LaunchpadCronScript > * Security policy > * SSH server > > * Code layout (what's in lp.code/lp.services/lp.registry/etc.) > * Testing > * Where to place tests > * How to write tests > * Layers > > Anything missing? > -- Guilherme Salgado <[email protected]>
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