On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Justas <[email protected]> wrote: OK, so lets break this up and expand it a bit for the upcoming weeks' workflow.
I'm thinking managing this is more like a long sequential list than a spreadsheet (which would be more random access. Step 0. Writing down the basic plan for the page what links, actions, dialogs, go where, roughly (Tom) Justas: > Say, you're porting index.html for a BasicPerson. > > 1. Run the server, go to .../person/index.html and verify it's NotFound > 1.1. If it's found and there's a traceback, probably the old page is not > registered for a ISchoolToolLayer. Specify the layer and verify again. > 2. Create/use flourish.zcml in respective browser package, put flourish:* > directives only there > 3. Write the flourish:page directive > 3.1. Use the old page class if possible, don't forget to specify > content_template > 3.2. If it's not possible, write FlourishOldClassName, use inheritance from > old class where appropriate > 3.3. Keep Flourish* classes close to the originals > 3.4. Use generic flourish templates, if not applicable, copy > old_view_template.pt to f_old_view_template.pt and remove the page macro > part. Alan (note that I'm just sticking a pin in what seems like a good handoff point): > 3.5. Check what action viewlets were registered, what menu items were > specified - and port them. This is a rough draft. Lots of XXX in the UI OK! > 4. When ../browser/person.py (or other) grows too large because of the > flourish skin views, split it: > 4.1. create person_stskin.py, move ALL views, viewlets and everything else > registered for ISchoolToolSkin layer there > 4.2. port the unit tests > 4.3. make sure it runs with the old schooltool layer > 4.4. make sure functional tests pass > 4.5. create person_flourish.py, move everything registered for flourish > layer there > 4.6. person.py now should contain only traversal and such - things > independent from skinning Douglas & Tom: Iterate on the page design layout, pixel pushing, etc. We'll discuss this further tomorrow. --Tom _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
