Re: [GMG-Devel] Help extract documentation from my brain

[Christopher Allan Webber]

I've taken notes to write up docs on these and all other things
mentioned in that thread.

In addition, I've started moving my braindumps here:

http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/User:Cwebber/braindumps


Caleb Davis <address@hidden> writes:

> Perhaps seeing these again will spark a dump or two 
> (http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/262, and http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/289):
>
>   • (WSGI) Application structure
>   • Media submission process
>   • Media conversion/processing process
>   • Multiple media type handling for display/submission/processing and what 
> writing extensions for this will look like
>   • Maybe a bit about plugins vision but that's not currently critical
>   • re:f289 - 'I'll write up a braindump of how all this stuff works to the 
> mailing list this week.'
>
> I also wonder about celery, which jobs it performs, and why it's such an 
> important component of MediaGoblin's design.
>
> hth, --Caleb
>
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>    
>     We'd like to improve our documentation.  Fortunately, a lot of people on
>     our team are coming up to speed with the codebase and have a pretty good
>     idea of how things work.  Unfortunately a lot of it is in my head, but I
>     don't have time to work on nice docs because I need to focus on the
>     codebase.
>    
>     Here's a solution.  A lot of the initial documentation was extracted
>     from some "braindump" files I wrote and was rewritten by other people
>     (largely Will, but also some other volunteers) into something more
>     coherent.  I think we should do the same thing again.
>    
>     So over the next few weeks I'm going to braindump about various topics
>     on-list.  Is there anything mysterious about the codebase or etc that
>     you want clarified?  Here's a list of topics I think I should braindump
>     about, feel free to make more requests:
>      - Database stuff
>       - Migrations
>       - Indexing
>       - What are all the fields?  (Should add docstrings)
>      - How to add new views (including routing)
>      - Config stuff
>      - Templates
>      - General style concerns
>      - Testing
>      - Storage, and the storage API
>      - What is the workbench?
>      - ???
>    
>     Feel free to expand on this, and I'll start braindumping!
>    
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