Upcoming Events
San Francisco CiviCRM Meetup - February 8th, 2012
February 8th, 2012
Come meet others from the Bay Area who are interested in, using or developing (more...)
UK usergroup - London meetup
February 8th, 2012
Come and meet others from the UK that are using CiviCRM or are interested in (more...)
Chicago CiviCRM Meetup
February 17th, 2012
Please join other CiviCRM users, administrators, and developers in the Chicago (more...)
London user and administrator training
February 23rd, 2012
A comprehensive two day hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
CiviCRM Seminar - London
February 23rd, 2012
NfP Services free seminar
CiviCRM London sprint Feb 2012
February 27th, 2012
Following the CiviCRM training here in London, we will have a CiviCRM code (more...)
Philadelphia - CiviCRM Meetup for Q1 2012
March 13th, 2012
UK South West - CiviCRM Meetup
March 20th, 2012
Come meet others from the Area who are interested in, using or developing for (more...)
[Bristol, UK] user and administrator training
March 21st, 2012
A comprehensive hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
San Francisco user and administrator training
March 29th, 2012
A comprehensive two day hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
CiviCRM Usability, Test and Code Sprint - San Francisco (March 2012)
March 29th, 2012
This usability, code and test sprint is targeted at CiviCRM users and (more...)
CiviCon 2012 San Francisco Bay Area - April 2nd 2012
April 2nd, 2012
CiviCon is THE annual event bringing together the people who use, develop, (more...)
CiviCRM Documentation, Test and Code Sprint - after CiviCon San Francisco (April 2012)
April 4th, 2012
This sprint is targeted at CiviCRM users and developers who want to work on (more...)
CiviCRM Components
Tools for engaging your supporters...
Some API suggestions from CiviCamp ...
- Not Just a Contact Database
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These optional components give you more power to connect and engage your supporters.
civiCASE
Case management for clients and constituents.
civiCONTRIBUTE
Online fundraising and donor management.
civiEVENT
Online event registration and participant tracking.
civiMEMBER
Online signup and membership management.
civiMAIL
Personalized email blasts and newsletters.
civiREPORT
Report generation and template management.
The API was a big topic at CiviCamp. We had a good discussion on the mistakes we made in the past and things we can do better going forward. Due to a variety of reasons (internal and external), the API migration between 1.9 and 2.0 was a disaster. We resolved to not let this happen in the future. Here are a few things we agreed upon
- We will maintain backward compatibility for an obsoleted function for at least one version in the future.
- All interface changes will be part of the upgrade documentation along with a sample of how to convert from the old format to the new format.
- Good Unit Test coverage of the API. We will recommend a unit test be filed along with any bug report regarding the API. The developer community will step up and help provide additional unit tests for more coverage
- API's will have a more flexible critical bug criteria. In general, we need to do a better job of fixing issues in the release versions and trunk at the same time
- All Documentation will be versioned starting from CiviCRM v2.1. We will use Confluence's spaces features to enable this functionality.
- Matt Chapman will build a directory of existing CiviCRM/Drupal modules using D6/CCK/Views on civicrm.org. This can potentially serve as a testbed for CiviCRM APIs also
- There will be a separate forum board to address API issue. The forum topic is here
- We will migrate all v1 api's to v2 in 2.1.x (2.1.3?). The current v1 api's will be kept in 2.1 till 2.2 for backward compatibility. We will get the unit testing framework running in 2.1.3 for api's
Comments
REST interface should be versionned too
So we know how to what API it is connected
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