April Update

rafalp
May 2, 2015
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    Project Lead
    May 2, 2015, 5:12 a.m.
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    Let's have an update!

    As I am writing this, Misago 0.6's Ember UI allows users to sign in, change forgotten password, activate new account, see ban page if they are banned and finally, register new account.

    Great deal of work in this month happened beyond the curtains, moving code around and working out Ember quirks to implement features that will be needed later on, like forms validation or flexible modals. The good news is this is mostly done, however there's still few small things to do before I'll be able to focus on moving features to new interface.

    Once that is done, development efford will move first towards getting new, fully responsive forum navbar and footer complete, and then onto user profiles/options/moderation.

    See ya in the next update :]

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    Project Lead
    May 3, 2015, 1:42 a.m.
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    And this little thing just became history:

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    Misago 0.6 formats dates in client, which means Django no longer needs to know user's timezone, and so option to set TZ was dropped. You still can set it for server-rendered dates that crawlers will consume via settings.py, but thats it.

    This means your users no longer need to wonder which one from three European timezones they are when setting up their account. :]

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    Members 1 post
    May 4, 2015, 2:04 a.m.
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    Heya!

    Misago seems to be absolutely perfect for a project I'm about to begin! The project however involves writing quite a bit of functionality specifically for it, as well as editing/extending a bit of the base forum functionality as well (should be achievable with just hooks though). I've lurked around these forums and figured that I should wait for 0.6 with something like this; besides, I'm also interested in the 'flattiness' of 0.6 - it will fit my project perfectly, as well as the transition to being a Django app so I have to learn one framework instead of (essentially) two, as this will be my first Python project.

    However, I see mentions of 0.6 on this forum dating all the way back to 2013. How far from a working release it actually is? "Working release" as in, all the so-far-announced functionality and paradigm shifts done. Not necessarily polished and bug-free, but just, like, working... so I can start building things around it without having structures changed suddenly or whatever. I don't have a strict deadline or anything, but early June is the target, and I really want to have at least a working frontpage + forum at this point, aka no platform changes or big paradigm shifts after this point in time.

    I would help you if I could, but I'm literally going to be learning python/django along the way here (I'm not new to coding) so I'm afraid I can't really offer much right now. I've been out of the webdev loop for a little while, so I'm a bit behind on the newer tech/frameworks/practices. I'm considering to start coding the rest of my site meanwhile, because if I understand it right, integrating the forum later on will basically be problem-free as it will be using users/session/auth/templates/etc via Django. So, the question is, am I understanding it right? and is it possible that 0.6 will be in a usable state within the next ~2 months? I can not launch without a forum, so I'll need to come up with another plan if this is not the case (bonus questions: if I code a ton of things that use 0.5.x users/auth/etc, will it be hard to port it to 0.6? what about templates - if I do my frontend/design now, how much of it will be relevant in 0.6?).

    Misago project is dope, by the way. I really like it already and I agree with basically all the design philosophy/views you've posted here, and the direction 0.6 is going is great. Coding a forum is a HUGE task even in this age of agile development and frameworks, there's just too many things needed for one to work, and so much design considerations to do that it's a whole task of its own. Python/Django definitely need a project like this.

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    Project Lead
    May 8, 2015, 3:29 p.m.
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    One piece of wisdom thats good to remember in this field is that you shouldn't stake on promises made by others. As you can see by github, work on master branch is taking place with goals being achieved and milestones being closed. A lot of work on 0.6 was pretty much done by the January of this year, however by then I've made decision to move frontend to Ember.js which pushed release by months again.

    I am unable to say when will 0.6 be completed due to my limited experience with JS single page apps. As I've said before majority of features are already implemented. If you install pre-emberjs branch on localhost, you will see that only things missing were "extras" like content reports/attachments/pools and centered search.

    This means that work currently happening on Master isn't rewrite. It's mostly "move code from views.py to api.py, templates from Django to Ember, then write some JS, oh there's bug in code? gotta fix that by the way." Moving some features takes me few minutes, but some features take weeks to get nicely.

    Early June seems impossible mark for me, there's still too much to move over for that to be achievable for me.

    It will be problem free, but not hassle free, so if I was to do it myself, I would most likely setup Misago via misago-admin.py startforum, and then move site apps over to it, due to how many settings need to be set in certain way for Misago features, and how omissions-prone vice-versa process may be.

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    Project Lead
    May 8, 2015, 11:09 p.m.
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