Imagine for a moment that CiviCRM is a garden. In all its object oriented complexity lie bugs and weeds that need to be effectively discovered and managed. Managing a garden the size of CiviCRM is a daunting task for one individual, and even a team of developers along with a community of end-users and testers still need help. There is indeed help to be found!
Most gardens have a gnome or two. CiviCRM has dozens. Our little army of workers were deployed from the xUnit, a top secret, multi-lingual consortium who's primary concerns are the sanity of software developers and confidence of end-users. These assertive xUnit workers diligently patrol the garden for problems. When a problem is found, the local worker will switch xe's hat from green to red in order that...
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On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week we had the a CiviCRM Code Sprint in San Francisco. We had a total of 9 participants over 2 days: Arthur from the WikiMedia Foundation, Micah from Electronic Frontier Foundation, Coleman and Brylie from Woolman - Sierra Friends Center, Peter and Adam from Giant Rabbit, Stacy from elMobile and Dave and Lobo from CiviCRM. Here are a few things that we worked on during the sprint.
- Peter from Giant Rabbit gave a demo of the CiviCRM install for Compass Point and specifically the event management system. One of the requirements was the ability to allow multiple people to sign up for multiple events at the same time. They developed a new drupal module that interfaces with CiviCRM event api and database. You can...
The morning after....the API mini sprint in Brussels.....time for a blog post! I was getting ready for a developer camp, then getting ready to spend hours with Xavier coding like mad, and finally ended up with an API sprint with Luciano, Josh, Andreas, Hartmut and Xavier. Good fun, nice to once more appreciate the community I am part of. Xavier made me very happy with the api/ajax/doc, superb! Luciano contributed the Note API, Andreas was busy getting to grips with the API calls from the BAO, Hartmut dug into the unit tests and I had my satisfying progress with the XML part of the REST interface.
And on top of that Xavier and I took the decision to deprecate Location API and replace it with Address, Email and Phone API. I am not sure when this will be released, but I will get going with it straightaway. Good sprint, I love our community and I definitely prefer cold Belgian beer!!!!
Erik
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Today is the last day of the Bristol code sprint, which was a great experience! Lots done, climbed the Cheddar Gorge and tasted Kurundś famous lamb.... I will also always remember it for finding out I was part of the API team :-)
On a serious level, it is a good idea to have a team of people that take care of the API's. And taking care I think involves:
- be present in the API forum, trying to help people, share ideas, discuss suggestions etc
- maintain a Wiki page devoted to the API's with to do list, wishes for the next release, conventions, tutorials etc.
- fix reported bugs for the API's that need fixing on a core level
- standardize the API's to follow the conventions as much as possible
Lobo explained yesterday that we have 3 members at the moment: Xavier, Eileen and me. (Xavier and Eileen, were you aware of this :-)) And we recruited Coleman Watts yesterday, so that makes 4. Do we have more volunteers?...
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check_permissions setting in $params – if it’s set and true the permission check is performed, otherwise it’s skipped. Later in the code cycle we’ll also add ACL checks (next to the general permission checks).
The civicrm_api_check_permission($api, $params, $throw = false) method located in api/v2/utils.php will either return a predicate whether the given call (with the given params, to be used in the future…) is allowed – or, if $throw is... Read moreToday at the Bristol Code sprint a few of us made a concerted effort on getting making Giftaid 'plug and play' for Civi.
Our starting point is code written by Millertech and our aim is to get it into a state that we can package it as a Drupal module. Once we've done that, we're hopeful that we'll be able to package it for Joomla also.
We're having to make a few improvements to Civi's hooks, and some modifications to the existing functionality to enable us to package it up, but the benefits are obvious: much easier installation and thus wider uptake of the module, and thus higher CiviCRM adpotion in the UK :)
We spent most of the morning familiarising ourselves with the code and discussing the necessary changes we would need to make. This threw up some difficult problems (I'll spare you the details) but the result was this outline of...
Read moreCiviCRM Trainings / Code Sprint:
- Configuring, Customizing and Extending CiviCRM - New York: Sep 16, 2010 8:30 AM - Sep 17, 2010 5:30 PM
- CiviCRM User and Administrator Training - New York : Sep 16, 2010 8:30 AM - Sep 17, 2010 5:30 PM
- CiviCRM Code and Test Sprint - New York : Sep 18, 2010 9:00 AM Sep 19, 2010 5:30 PM
- London developer and implementer training : Sep 30, 2010 9:00 AM Oct 01, 2010 6:00 PM
- London user and administrator training : Sep 30, 2010 9:00 AM Oct 01...
Over the first three days of the code sprint, we got through most of the tasks to be done. So, on the last day it was decided that some time could be allocated to something different, taking advantage of developpers from different continents being together. Three of us spent a few hours working on coding a way to deploy CiviCRM site with Aegir.
Aegir is an installation profile and a group of modules (mostly hosting and provision, along with drush) that make it possible to provision (install, update, clone, backup, etc.) new Drupal sites with the click of a button. Leveraging this system for CiviCRM will have great benefits: making installation quick and easy for non-technical users, keeping the Drupal and CiviCRM installations up to date more easily, which improves security....
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The past 8 days have been an amazing period for the CiviCRM community and core team members. Its been incredibly intense, extremely fulfilling and mind-blowing. A huge thank you and tip of the hat to the members of the community who participated in the event and came together from various parts of the world (asia, europe, north america) to push the project to greater heights, from a usability, documentation and localization viewpoint.
Thank you to Jimmy H, Erik B, Goran G, Matheiu L, Mathieu P for working on improving CiviCRM's localization and internationalization features. Thank you to Michael M, Xavier D, Adam H, Sarah G, Mari T, Alice G, Jack A, Josue G, Kyle J for burning the midnight oil to update, improve and extend the CiviCRM: A comprehensive guide. Thank you to OSI and our program officer: Janet Haven, Chintu Gudiya Foundation, Yellow Dog Foundation and ...
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- Transifex allows teams of people to collaborate on translations – this is not an issue when you have a single person working on a translation, but as soon as you have two or more contributors working remotely, it’s crucial to use a tool that streamlines the process and allows for easy and centralised communication,
- the user hierarchy is simple, clean and seems to be efficient: project maintainers accept language maintainers who, in turn, accept language team members and coordinate given language’s...
