YACT - Yet Another Conference Tool - Grant Report #1
Fri, 01-Nov-2013 by
Alan Haggai Alavi
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*Torsten Raudssus reported:*
> In July 2013 I started work on my grant, using time off given by my
> empoyer for such projects. Unfortunately, after my first week of work,
> the NSA Snowden Affair brought a massive influx of interest towards
> DuckDuckGo, forcing me to pause my progress. At the Patch -p1 event I
> plan to continue my work on the grant.
>
> In the first week, I concentrated on forming a solid base to build off
> of, which started with Dancer, the planned framework to use. The
> target for the next generation of Act was very clear - to move towards
> a strongly model oriented concept, independent of the web base. Sadly,
> it became clear that Dancer was not lightweight enough to deliver any
> advantage here. I also faced several smaller problems which culminated
> in my decision to switch to another framework with the characteristics
> desired. I quickly chose Web::Simple for these reasons, a very
> lightweight web framework allowing us to concentrate on the model
> itself. That said, the DSL of Dancer held strong advantages for
> developers who want to quickly dive into the code and understand what
> is going on. With this in mind, I took some time (which was less than
> I spent with Dancer before) to wrap a primitive DSL around
> Web::Simple, called Yeb, which allows for a similar controller
> structure to Dancer. Despite some criticism for moving from Dancer
> towards a "totally new framework", this solution leverages Web::Simple
> in concert with Plack Middleware and alternative Plack Apps for
> specific calls, which leads to solutions on the Plack layer where the
> complete community can be used for support.
>
> In this time I also cleared up many details about the migration
> process, such as which urls need to be preserved, and how we handle
> specific situations out of the "double usage" of old Act together with
> the new YACT sites.
>
> The upgrade of the prework YACT, which I did before the grant, towards
> this new framework alone with the repository upgrade in general took
> the other time of this week. Then at the Patch -p0 event I focused on
> the generation of the base dataset, which drifted sadly a bit away
> from YACT, but this happens when you are sitting together with lots of
> Perl people and chat around everything :-). At the next Patch event in
> December this will be done, as well as the setup of the new routing
> structure.
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