April 11, 2008
12:38
This weekend sees the start of a hackfest being undertaken by our very own Alexander "halex" Hixon, yes the same one that has been getting praise for fiddling about with some fandangled Media Player, and our illustrious coxswain Alex "so_solid_moo" Hudson to transform our old clunky (code wise) DragonFly WebUI into the sleek, sexy and functional Avocado WebUI.
They are aiming purely at the web stuff for this, so if you have any python, JavaScript, CSS, html knowledge/experience please do drop by #bongo on oftcnet even if you are only just learning to hack please jump in - every little helps
. Tasks will probably involve finishing off the XHTML/CSS design, and doing some of the backend work as well as hooking up the two together with the JavaScript. A simplistic view of
the architecture is something along the lines ofbongo + agents <--> python/webserver <--> xhtml + css + js
It is the latter two chunks that are getting the makeover. The plan is to start from scratch and not regurgitate any of the old code, and the outcome will hopefully make it into the M4 release. You can have a peek at the code so far from http://svn.gna.org/svn/bongo/avocado/ .
So come one and all and bring all your web hackery skills to the party
