Zidanca Sprint 2013

By Natan Zabkar Sprint, Python, Kotti, NixOS # Comments

Two years have passed since the first well received Zidanca sprint and we thought it was time for a sequel. Instead of working on Plone like last time, we were focusing our efforts on Kotti and NixOS.

We were again located in the beautiful south-east wine region of Slovenia and we are sure the calming nature, sauna, a natural pool and of course great wine and food all helped in making this sprint a success.

Kotti

We focused on various smaller fixes and tweaks while setting up the grounds for some of the bigger features and changes.

Daniel Nouri, the creator of Kotti already wrote a blog post about this, so we are only putting a short overview here

Five main things were worked on:

Kotti's WYSIWYG editor was upgraded to TinyMCE version 4.0.2, bringing a much nicer looking user interface which fits into the overall Kotti style much nicer and scales down to smaller displays
We added tabbed forms support to deform_bootstrap, so each nested (Mapping) Schema will be rendered inside it's own tab
Andreas <disko> started kotti_multilingual earlier in 2013. We had a round of discussion with the various sprinters and managed to get a working prototype of a plugin that will support content translations.
A basic prototype for versioning history support was created
Since the tutorial finished up rather abruptly, we finished it up and added additional information to it
Various smaller fixes and enhancements to the documentation was made

All in all it was a very productive sprint!

NixOS

The NixOS team focused mainly on improving documentation and wiki, fixing existing bugs and general tweaking of Python on Nix.

Dr. Eelco Dolstra also held a NixOS presentation for all sprint attendees.

Zidanca NixOS Presentation

Participants

A big thank you to all the participants, it would not be possible without all of you. An extra big thank you goes to Andraž Brodnik <brodul> who, to the great delight of everyone that was there, took over the kitchen and made sure everyone was well fed.

Alojzij Blatnik <Predkambrij>
Andraž Brodnik <brodul>
Cillian de Róiste <goibhniu>
Daniel Nouri <dnouri>
Domen Kožar <iElectric>
Eelco Dolstra <niksnut>
Florian Friesdorf <chaoflow>
Jaka Hudoklin <offline>
Janž Verbančič
Joachim Schiele <qknight>
Jonas Hörsch <coroa>
Jure Cerjak <ibi>
Luka Kikic <kikic>
Martin Žibert <peks>
Matej Cotman <matejc>
Natan Žabkar <nightmarebadger>
Rob Vermaas <rbvermaa>
Rok Garbas <garbas>
Tadej Justin <usatko>
Urban Škudnik <neo>
Vanč Levstik <ferewuz>