Re: Designer add-on for Futon

[J Chris Anderson <jc...@gmail.com>]

On May 31, 2010, at 7:47 AM, mickael.bailly@free.fr wrote:

> Hello devs,
> 
> now that I created the Jira ticket, please tell me if I can be of any help in getting this integrated in CouchDB.
> 
> Mickael

I think this add-on if freaking rad. But... I'm not sure it's within the mission of Futon to do all this.

This editor would make an ideal CouchApp, and then it could be replicated around, maintain user preferences as database state, etc.

If you want to scale back your efforts to make the smallest possible patch that can work, I'd suggest a patch that just integrates Bespin with the existing view code editor. Once that works reliably, you can work your way up to adding more features like those present in your add-on.

I don't want to discourage you from contributing. Code like what you've written is very important for CouchDB. It's just that it is much easier to integrate smaller patches that don't add major surface area to the project.

So I'd suggest, if you want to do the large ambitious thing, make it a CouchApp. But I'd love to see Bespin in the view editor, so if you can make that a targeted small patch, we'll be happy to see it.

Chris

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> 
> ----- Mail Original -----
> De: "Jan Lehnardt" <ja...@apache.org>
> À: dev@couchdb.apache.org
> Envoyé: Mercredi 19 Mai 2010 12h29:48 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne
> Objet: Re: Designer add-on for Futon
> 
> 
> On 19 May 2010, at 09:05, mickael.bailly@free.fr wrote:
> 
>> For now I've uploaded it on github : http://github.com/dready92/futon-designer
>> I really don't think it's really for prime-time, so opening a JIRA request seems too early for me...?
>> 
>> I kept the designer "workflow" separate from the database.html/document.html page for a reason : bespin=canvas=html5, and that's not supported in every browser. IMHO it's better to have a "strong admin interface" that can run in any browser, and my present code that is more a "cool thing" than something the couch users can't live without. My next proposal proposal would have been to make a "switch to designer" button  appear on the database.html page if the current browser support html5....
>> 
>> I'm open for any directive to better integrate this part into futon, once you played with it of course.
>> I'll sign the CLA, is it this one : http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt ?
> 
> That would be the one, but there's an easier way. If you could 
> upload your code (as a zip file or a patch) to JIRA now, there's
> a checkbox you can tick that is equivalent to signing a CLA for 
> a contribution like this. Once that is done, we can work on 
> integrating it into Futon proper. I'd suggest that this is the easiest 
> way forward :)
> 
> A CLA is only really needed for committers.
> 
> Mikeal, thanks for offering to look through this!
> 
> Cheese
> Jan
> --
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Mickael
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Mail Original -----
>> De: "Mikeal Rogers" <mi...@gmail.com>
>> À: dev@couchdb.apache.org
>> Envoyé: Mercredi 19 Mai 2010 04h56:06 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne
>> Objet: Re: Designer add-on for Futon
>> 
>> For some reason this was rejected last time i sent this to the list.
>> 
>> ------------------------
>> 
>> I've spent some time playing with this.
>> 
>> There is some great stuff here but the code, as it is, isn't really
>> integrated with the rest of Futon. The pages are part of some separate
>> workflow that isn't connected to the regular editing workflow in
>> Futon.
>> 
>> If you could post this code, even as a zip, to JIRA and sign the CLA I
>> can look at integrating this in to the document view, but until you
>> sign the CLA I can't use any of this code :(
>> 
>> -Mikeal
>> 
>> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:45 PM, J Chris Anderson <jc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On May 18, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
>>> 
>>>> haha!
>>>> 
>>>> s/of/or/g
>>>> 
>>>> I actually do have this running from this zip, which I had to wait 60
>>>> seconds staring at a counter in order to download :)
>>>> 
>>>> But i think most people won't be doing that and want a patch or a
>>>> something they can merge :)
>>> 
>>> Yes I am eager to run the Futon list and show Bespin editors. As soon as it is on Github I will.
>>> 
>>> Chris
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Once it's an actual patch you should probably put it in JIRA.
>>>> 
>>>> -Mikeal
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Jan Lehnardt <ja...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>> Dear Mikeal,
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 19 May 2010, at 00:55, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Couch you post this as a patch of push it to branch on github or something?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can you kindly send me a week's supply of what you've been consuming today? :D
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Jan
>>>>> --
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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