Overview

Title

write a MonthCalendar macro or view for moin2

Duration

180

Difficulty

Hard

Type

Code, User Interface

Tags

python,html,css,mercurial,jinja2

Mentors

thomaswaldmann,rb_proj,ronny_pfannschmidt,xoraxax,diofeher

Count

-1

Description

Abstract

In moin 1.x we have a MonthCalendar (MC) macro (which is quite big and complicated and a bit of a mess). For moin2, this needs a clean rewrite that uses the new moin2 APIs and infrastructure.

Details

You need to work closely together with the moin devs, discuss about your ideas and how to best implement it.

Note: in case macros still make trouble in moin2, you can just implement MC as a flask view (see MoinMoin.apps.frontend).

The basic functionality of MC is rather easy and required:

• linking to existing day items (access moin2 storage api)
• different style for days with existing day items
• style weekday / weekend differently
• navigation prev/next month/year
• implement it in a way so that the first weekday (Mo or Sun) is determined by a constant (0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, ...)

• look at moin 1.9 MonthCalendar macro - we need to be able to implement this macro, so params should be similar.

  • for examples see HelpOnMacros/MonthCalendar

Optional (if you have time left):

• use locale data to determine first weekday

Deliverables: changesets

There might be a followup task with more MC stuff.

Benefits

MonthCalendar is used by quite many wiki sites.

Skill Requirements

See tags. Mostly this is python coding, but you'll need to make some jinja2 template and/or macro. Colours should be done by css. We expect you work by creating clean changesets using mercurial. You should either be already familiar with moin2 api or willing to become.

Links

Note: unless otherwise noted, tasks usually refer to moin2 (http://moinmo.in/MoinMoin2.0)!

• http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/2.0-dev repository of moin2 (~ 250MB!)

  • note: if you have a low bandwidth or high latency connection, cloning this may take quite a while

• moin/2.0-dev repository clone + workdir of 2010-12-25

  • note: for slow connections, this might be more suitable to start with. result will be same as clone, just a bit older.

• http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9 repository of moin 1.9

• http://moimo.in/MoinMoinChat - please join us on IRC #moin-dev

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