On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:02:19PM -0300, Guilherme Salgado wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 12:59 +0300, Bjorn Tillenius wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > so, it's time for the Technical Architect team to tackle its first task. > > Create the Launchpad Architectural Vision. > > > > First of all, what is it? It's aimed to be documents that describe the > > different parts of Launchpad. It will explain how Launchpad works, which > > moving parts are involved, and how it will fit together. It will also > > explain the various sub-systems, and explain how to do various things in > > Launchpad code. For example, how do I send and receive e-mail? How do I > > add an html page? How do I write a script? Etc. > > > > An important goal of the Vision is to avoid people doing duplicate work, > > so it should document that canonical way of doing various things in > > Launchpad. If you implement a new feature, and for example don't know > > how the implementation should look like, the Vision should be the place > > to look, to see what existing code you can re-use. That's why I want to > > focus on things that are shared (or supposed to be shared) across > > applications to start with. > > > > I need your help, though! It's a lot of work, and some of you have a lot > > of expertise of certain areas of Launchpad. I need help figuring out > > what should be included in the Vision. I also need volunteers describing > > the different parts. For example, someone from the Code team would be a > > good candidate writing about the job system. Although, not necessarily. > > If you're interested in how a certain part works, trying to document it > > is a great way of learning! Also, you don't have to volunteer yourself, > > finding other volunteers is also acceptable :) > > > > These are the things I thought of so far that should be included: > > > > * Overview of Launchpad and its moving parts > > * job system > > * e-mail (sending/receiving) > > * Database garbage collection (garbo) > > * expose API methods/attributes > > * Web app > > * Browser views > > * TAL formatters > > * Breadcrumbs > * canonical_url > * AJAX > > > * Librarian > > * Comments > > * DB Schema > > Master/slave DBs and when/how to use them > > Vocabularies, maybe?
Yes, all of these should be in there, thanks. -- Björn Tillenius | https://launchpad.net/~bjornt _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
