GSoC Update: June 10 2014

Last week I worked on adding /+tickets view having a list of tickets in a tabular form. It contains important meta data information of tickets and also the links to tickets.

I also added a search option in which user can search in comments, summary, itemid and tags. 

Here is the screenshot of +tickets view.

Also made summary, Effort, Difficulty, Severity and Priority necessary fields.

Here is the codereview for this change.

During this week I found one bug - Nameless items could not be downloaded in modernized theme so I made a small change in order to make it work. Here is the codereview for my change. 

GSoC Update: June 2 2014

Well, this post came a bit late as I was busy with my coding stuff.
The coding period started almost 2 weeks ago and in these 2 weeks I mainly worked on making ticket update work properly and also work on some GUI part of tickets. During this I came to know that this update problem is not only with the ticket items but all items which do not have any name. Also there was a failing unit test due to this. The problem was that the notification module was dependent on name and as items may not have any name so the error was raised whenever such an item was modified. For solving this I passed fqname instead of item_name to Notification module and also to logging signals and used this fqname to fetch the item's  information and send notification mail. Here is the codereview and commit to my repo.

There was also one specific problem with tickets that for the fields "Depends On" and "Superseded By" it was earlier trying to fetch the names of other tickets and tickets do not have any name so an error was raised. For this problem I made it fetch only some initials of itemid and also summary of the ticket items. Now in these fields the drop-down list shows this itemid initials and summary. Here is the codereview for my change. I am yet to commit it to my repo.

Also during this time Ajitesh (:randomax) reminded me of this bug regarding the dislocation of search box which I solved earlier but didn't commit. So I committed that also to my repo. Here is the codereview and commit to my repo.

GSoC Update: Final Plan

Well, this week we had discussions regarding the structure of the ticket item. Also I found out the reason why there the error is coming while modifying ticket item. Actually when we are modifying ticket then for the fields "Superseded By" and "Depends On", it tries to create a select list and for that it tries to fetch the name and ITEMID of the other ticket items and as name field is not defined then an error is raised. I was able to find this by creating breakpoints using Pycharm. Seriously, Pycharm is very nice IDE for python and web development.

Here is the Plan

The ticket item will only have ITEMID not the names.

• In the fields "Superseded By" and "Depends On", we will first try to have ITEMID as option for display and then afterwards we will try to have "one-line summary" also displayed in in the options so that it is easy for the user select the desirable option.
• There would a view having list of tickets with their links and one-line summary.
• Also the the UI of the ticket would be made better by using bootstrap i.e the drop-down lists, submit buttons etc would be given bootstrap touch.

If required some minor changes may be incorporated :D

Running Moin2 in Pycharm

Before posting I was in a dilemma whether it is worth or not but then I thought that it might be useful for others in future.
First download Pycharm using this link (preferred is professional version).
Run pycharm.sh in pycharm/bin
Add the licence of MoinMoin Wiki to it.
Then create a new project for MoinMoin
Go to File ->Settings and in that there is a python interpreter tab in which the path of the moin interpreter needs to be specified. Desired path is <venv>/bin/python
Then go to Run -> Edit Configurations and click on "+" on upper-left and new configuration of Python type.
Double Click on this new configuration of python and edit the path of the script to <venv>/bin/moin and change working directory to moin-2.0 and then click OK
Now configuration is done. Click on Run->Debug "Name of Project" and then moin runs on default port 8080. Make sure that no other application is running on that port.

GSoC Update: May 5 2014

This week was spent mainly understanding the cause of problems with the ticket and blog items. 

Also I made a sample flask application in order to get familiar with the flask, jinja2 which I would require in my project. I used the sample application from a Tutorial. This application was also similar to blog which supported only one user. I understood the code and made it compatible for multiple users i.e. now multiple people can create account and write posts. The source code of the modified can be found here.

After this I plan to learn Pycharm to get more understanding of the code of the ticket and blog items.

Oh! I almost forgot that I also got a Welcome Package from Google. 

Google Summer of Code 2014

MoinMoin!! Its Google Summer of Code :D

      

Finally I am selected for Google Summer of Code 2014. I would be working for MoinMoin which is under Python Software Foundation.

My Project is on improving the existing ticket and blog items and also write tests for the same. My Mentors for the project are ThomasWaldmann, RogerHaase and Dimazest.

I would be blogging about my progress in the project.

Seems summer would be Great.