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Hi!
Well, YAPC::Israel::2004 is over, and Yapcom was mostly up to the task.
Nevertheless, I think it has several standing issues, which I suggest be
cleaned up beforehand. I'd also like to reflect on my attempt to contribute
to it.
I tried to contribute to the Yapcom development, and some of my contributions
or suggestions were eventually accepted. However, many times when I tried to
contribute, I got stuck because I was not able to write a suitable test to
fix a certain issue. Sometimes, it happened because Yapcom expected a
different configuration than what was currently present, and from what I was
told this behaviour was hard-coded there and not modifiable by the tests. I
suggest we make sure the tests are able to set this or mock it in some other
way.
Other than that, another standing issue was that the Yapcom configuration file
contained a lot of things that could be learned from the environment
variables supplied by the web-server. This creates a duplicity of
configuration, which would make it harder to install and upgrade it.
The Apache configuration was also an issue. It was somewhat complex, and
perhaps could be specified.
A final minor issue was the fact that our executable was named "2004". This
was because it was argued that people may not be able to alias the URL on the
web-server. I suggest we rename it to yapcom.pl instead. People who download
the distro some time into the future would be annoyed by a "2004" filename.
In any case they can use "/conferences/2004/yapcom.pl/" which is a bit ugly,
but still usable. And we usually can assume they can configure their
web-server accordingly.
Yapcom reminded me a bit of all these web-applications you can download from
the Net, that require to set up a lot of things and to configure them before
they are ready. This is as opposed to some web-applications which are
surprisingly easy to set up - just run a script on the directory or unpack
a tarball, change permissions and then enter a URL on the web-server. We
should aim that Yapcom be as close to the latter as possible.
Hopefully, these issues will be resolved in the hacking activity before the
next conference. But we may want to resolve these problems now, so we'll have
less work later.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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