CDM 2021 02

openEQUELLA Community Dev Meeting February 2021

4th February 2021 4pm (US) / 5th February 2021 9am (AU)

Attendees

• Chair: Ian Stevenson
• Scribe: Chris Beach

List of attendees: IanS, ChristianM, ChrisB, Penghai, Charlie

Agenda

General Topics

• Review Action Items
• Specific Topics (Please add to below list, or email the equella dev list to have an item added)
• Discuss code enhancements since last CDM
• Review tech choices, code structures, direction
• Any tech debt concerns
• Open PRs to discuss
• Q&A
• Assign next Chair and Scribe

Specific Topics

• Process to update the known supporting software page (such as https://github.com/openequella/openequella.github.io/issues/80) (CB)
• WebDAV servlet - maybe useful for CB (IS)
• Please add more

Minutes

Action items review

• Work continuing on the Frontend and REST decoupling
• committership governance - waiting for oEQ AB
• autotest license headers - currently on Ian's list

Specific Topics

• known supporting software - the example issue ticket opened seems like a good process
• WebDAV servlet, concerns that it might be slow, but a decent starting point to consider a standard file management connection with oEQ

Discuss code enhancements since last CDM

• Change for legacy content / UX clean up , currently in develop
• Refactor of the search page - first block using reducers. Reducers already proving to help simplify the UX logic.
• ALL Purescript is now removed!
• UX improvements (error msg placement, typescript components, button placement)
• Parcel v2 given a try - not ready for prod, but does well for breaking out the JS to load the needful, and a lot smaller.
• UX dep updates in progress

Review tech choices, code structures, direction

• None raised

Any tech debt concerns

• None raised

Open PRs to discuss

• jsass PR - interesting that there are 2 PRs - one for the inline version, and one for the variable version, just a reminder that once multiple locations specify a dep version, probably time to use a variable
• action v2 is being rolled out

Q&A

• Discussion on creating a stand alone UX component library - might consider NPM 7 with workspaces. Currently bundled with oEQ core
  • https://github.blog/2020-10-13-presenting-v7-0-0-of-the-npm-cli/
  • https://github.com/npm/rfcs/blob/latest/implemented/0026-workspaces.md

Next up: Chair: Chris Scribe: Sam