Hello everyone.
My name is Delight Mawoyo, I'm 21years old from Zimbabwe studying Computer Science.
I would like to participate in the next Outreachy round by working on the appDB webapp.
I have not yet submitted a contribution but I have a local clone of the repo and would appreciate any suggestions for issues I could look at. I would ultimately like my work on appDB to center around rebuilding the entire site... I was honestly shocked when I saw the php code been run and how untidy the site is.
Most of my work would center on changing the legacy php code structure to be powered by a PHP MVC framework... I had BonFire in mind.(basically CodeIgniter with a built in customiszable admin interface) For UI I would like to use Twitter Bootstrap and possibly use AngularJS for the user dashboard to make the site more responsive. The main site, the one indexable by search engines won't use AngularJS.
I have experience in all the aforementioned and migrating legacy PHP code to an MVC framework.
Please any help, tips and suggestions in line with my project proposal is greatly appreciated. I am also interested in the wine test graphical user interface project but I am a bit rusty in C.
Thank you!!!
Hello Delight. I'm the current maintainer of the AppDB. So I'm the one to talk to when it comes to all things AppDB at the moment. Keep in mind though, I didn't write much of the current codebase. It has been community contributed. All of the old authors have moved onto other things. I have only recently started cleaning things up in some places in my spare time.
On 02/24/2017 10:32 AM, Delight Mawoyo wrote:
I have not yet submitted a contribution but I have a local clone of the repo and would appreciate any suggestions for issues I could look at. I would ultimately like my work on appDB to center around rebuilding the entire site... I was honestly shocked when I saw the php code been run and how untidy the site is.
The code is very untidy for sure. It has had multiple attempts at rewrites over the years, and none of them actually finished. This has lead to the spaghetti you see now.
Most of my work would center on changing the legacy php code structure to be powered by a PHP MVC framework... I had BonFire in mind.(basically CodeIgniter with a built in customiszable admin interface) For UI I would like to use Twitter Bootstrap and possibly use AngularJS for the user dashboard to make the site more responsive. The main site, the one indexable by search engines won't use AngularJS.
I'm not a fan of large frameworks for the backend. They tend to be overkill, and complex enough that we would get even less contributions to the code than we see now. I also dislike the chore of upgrading the framework itself, and then finding the modules need rewrites. It is bad enough that looking forward much code will have to be rewritten just for all the changes in PHP 7.0. If you decide to pursue a framework. I won't be able to help much I'm afraid.
For the frontend I've already started porting things over to bootstrap and jquery/jquery-ui. So, my preference is to stay that route and not convert to Angular.
Some smaller tasks I'd like to see done if you are interested:
* https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39382 - AppDB needs a way to readily distinguish wine-staging versions from the development branch
* https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12927 - Flat comment mode does not display any replies If you ask me, we should just drop the threaded mode entirely, and keep the comments only in a flat mode.
A major task I need done is rewriting the screen shot code so the images are stored in multiple sizes on disk. That way they can be mirrored on our CDN. Right now, the images are dynamically sized each time they are viewed. This is a HUGE waste of resources. Only two sizes should be needed, the original full size, and a 250px (or so) thumbnail. Also, the images should not be saved on disk with the original file names. The one disk file should just be a unique id.
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