YACT - Yet Another Conference Tool - Grant Report #2
Fri, 14-Feb-2014 by
Alan Haggai Alavi
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*Torsten Raudssus reported:*
> The next phase working on YACT was at the patch -p1 Hackathon in Paris
> from 6.-8. December 2013. At this time it was very often my mission to
> explain to others how the YACT project is organized so trying to
> spread the awareness. But as usual this didn't kicked on, no pull
> requests or any involvement, but still it was a bit of a prove that
> the concepts itself are easy to get in. So far it is a big problem at
> all projects which are planned as "running application" to involve
> outside people without the requirement for them to replicate the
> complete infrastructure, or make it as easy as possible todo so. A
> development system on YACT can be generated out of the code. At the
> patch event I had planned to involve more people in prepare more
> sample data or fetch those data from the view, but sadly was the event
> more productive in the communicative way as in code.
>
> At the event itself I was barely able to refactor some of the classes
> to be more readable and organized after the generation processes of
> the last time. The other part of the time I was struggling to find a
> good concept for the organization of the web flow. The problem at YACT
> is the new requirement we planned to allow people to have a much more
> flexible way of defining the exact URL they want for the event.
> Literally they should be allowed to just point a new domain with a
> CNAME to the server of YACT and then give the exact URL where the
> conference should run. The rest of the URLs which are not covered by a
> YACT instance should then be available in a static way. This
> flexibility is not possible in many web frameworks which leaded to
> [`Web::Simple`](https://metacpan.org/pod/Web::Simple) being the only way of doing it right (and so the making of
> [`Yeb`](https://metacpan.org/pod/Yeb) to avoid generating a lot of proprietary boildercode). I must admit
> that this thinking at the event was really not possible and I lost
> time with not finding a solution, which I actually found later after
> the event and will implement soon.
>
> Another problem which I faced at the event, was the moment where I
> realized that the given concept of the overlapping INI files for the
> configuration of the conference, is not really something really
> effective, and thought some ways through, but so far not having an
> acceptable solution.
>
> As before this was just a little 3 day window which allowed me to get
> into the problems again, but I realize that this way will not achieve
> anything without a bigger block of time that I invest in one flow.
> After giving the above problems another last thought I will have the
> possibility to invest a complete week in a row at YACT and hopefully
> end there with an (undesigned) prototype around the existing database
> with a sample conference. The time from last report to the event and
> after the event there was no other activity around YACT.
>
> A big sorry that this Grant goes so slow, but on the moment where I
> gave the Grant in the planning of my time was sadly differently as it
> came up. This has changed now, so I want to make this now more quick
> done (or die trying hehe).
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