It is code cleanup day!

So here we are again; in the basement of building 305 on the DTU Campus, my coffee pot is empty and we are preparing ourselves for the open source/heart surgery on the OpenARS system.
 
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Today we will rename/refactor the existing OpenARS system to match the names that we use in our domain model. This will lead to a 1.1 system, that essentially has the same functionality as the OpenARS 1.0, but under the hood a lot of names of classes, methods and fields will have changed. We hope to have a stable version by the end of the day. Also tonight (at 6PM) we will have a huge get-together of all the developers on the OpenARMS team, here we will introduce the project, some of the tools that we will be using (our trac system and the IRC server) as well as this blog :) (this will hopefully trigger some comments for our posts).
So far today we have been preparing ourselves for the IRC meeting, reordered some pages on the trac-WIKI and created/added to a lot of tickets in the trac system, but we must confess:

„We have a lot to do before we can board the plane to Austria.“

Ping from the basement

Attila and I am sitting in the basement of building 305 on the DTU Campus, trying to plan the day ahead: We have to rename classes, methods and fields in the existing codebase to match the glossary of our fresh domain model.
This domain model has been created in a collaborative effort between the ten DTU students that will leave for Austria in March; but now the eight other students have all been assigned to the other universities projects.

Like all great projects, we used napkins for drafting the design diagram.

So the current status of the project is: We have created some design documents i.e. the technical plan containing the domain model and descriptions of the desired features. These have to be revisited some time soon, to be ready for the developers that we will be meeting in 2½ weeks time. We have been meeting with the former lead of the original OpenARS project (Kim Rostgaard Christensen) - which turned out to be a valuable resource of inspiration for the project ahead.


First bug issue can be closed as fixed! Yay!
Attila was struggling with the qwebirc IRC webclient for the IRC server that we have set up on our virtual machine, it seemed to be timing out for strange and unknown reasons, we were suspecting that the pound proxy was killing the connections before the frontend expected a timeout so we adjusted the timeout in the qwebirc configuration to 10 secs, which seems to have solved the problem.


Until next blog post, you can take a look at our project management system trac, at trac.openarms.dk, here you can also take a look at the source-code as it is right now.
And please, make some noise (maybe just a simple pong) if you are reading this post - we already had 100 views on the first - so we know that you are out there!


Ttyl!
Kræn & Attila

Is this thing on?

Hi there!

This is the place to be if you what to be updated on the progress of the OpenARMS team of the DOSSEE initiative!

DOSSEE is short for Developing Open Source System Expertise in Europe, which is just what we will be doing from the time we depart from CPH airport 11 of March at 10:10 AM to Austria, until we safely return to danish soul on the evening of March 24.


We would like to reach out and engage in the world, on our quest for beautiful json APIs and slick HTML5 layouts, this is why this blog will be documenting our participation in the project, with all the ups and downs, hopefully including a limited number of posts on code frustrations, server breakdowns and alike.


We hope to bring you insights into the strange world of a real life open source development project and we hope to see some comments on the stuff that we should do differently!


Hugs from the OpenARMS project leads
Kræn & Attila