Approximately a month ago, Yue appointed me lead of this project. I do not
know if that appointment has been accepted by all members of the .org
administration, but the level of explicit and implicit support I have received
has convinced me that the majority knows what's going on.
We (currently: Mister Hatt, Sanya-nya, and I) are developing a smaller, more
understandable .org application.
SUMMARY
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codebases and issue trackers:
Avatar Music Video catalog:
https://github.com/amvorg-underground/catalog proposed Avatar Music Video guide app:
https://github.com/amvorg-underground/guide data to play with:
http://Avatar Music Video.iriscouch.com/_utils/demo instance:
http://Avatar Music Video.ninjawedding.org/ (not much there yet; see below)
IRC: #grommet @ irc.synirc.org
You can get an idea of what we're working on by reading the open issues.
Please file feature requests at those issue trackers.
CURRENT STATUS
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I am doing the unglamorous-yet-necessary task of writing code to sanitize
inputs on the video entry page. Once that is completed, video entry and
catalog pages can be done, which will flesh out the rather bare-looking demo
instance.
Ask Mister Hatt about the guide application; I admittedly don't know too much
about his plans for it.
TECHNOLOGIES
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Many, really. Catalog is a Web application written in Ruby, using Rails
(version 3.2.1)? It connects to CouchDB; in future, it will probably also use
Lucene or maybe Solr. Guide is a Web application written in Perl, using the
Mojolicious framework.
We plan to integrate a forum application at some point; we don't care what the
forum application is written in, so long as it's not too hard to get different
authentication/authorization backends working with it.
HOW TO HELP
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I'm looking for people who have experience with all aspects of Web application
development. If this sounds like you, feel free to drop by, ask questions,
check out the code, and submit some patches. After they've had a review and
are accepted, I'll grant you a commit bit to catalog.
Once we get further along our to-do list, I would like everyone to play with
the demo instance and provide feedback (via issues of course) about how things
work.
WHAT WE ARE NOT DOING
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We are not implementing all current .org features; we are implementing what we
think the .org _should_ be.
We are not yet concerned with having this application be reachable at
http://www.animemusicvideos.org? Obviously that's important, but we are not
concerned with the present state of the .org's server loadout. We believe
that this effort will produce a product that is attractive enough to warrant
server reconfiguration where necessary, or perhaps entirely different hosting.
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This post is an incomplete summary of what we're doing. For more information,
drop by #grommet at irc.synirc.org.