CubicWeb Sprint report for the "BugSquash" team
Beginners fixed core bugs
The first day of the CubicWeb sprint was dedicated to an introduction to a group of four beginners that included two people that do not work at Logilab. At the end of day, this team knew about Entity, Views and Schema and was ready to dive into the core in order to squash some bugs.
The first steps into the CubicWeb core were not so easy, but these brave beginners, assisted by a skilled developer, managed to fix some bugs and add a few useful features, including one from a windows user that made it into the stable branch.
The gen-static-datadir command
We had a look at cubicweb-ctl gen-static-datadir, a feature that copies in a directory all the files that could be cached by a "front" web server instead of being served by cubicweb.
Testing the feature
At first run, we found that not all files where copied. We alas were unable to reproduce. So we need to keep an eye on this. On next tests, we tried several configuration. The files that were copied were always the ones containd in the "deepest" cube in the tree of cubes. So we can say that the command is working well.
Approach used by the feature
In the code, we browse all cubes used by the master cube to gather all filenames that we want to copy and afterwards we use "config.locate_resource(resource)" to find the best location for this file.
Doing this, we sometimes copy a file from the cache. If we do not want to use the cache, we could be sort the cubes recursively copy the whole data folder and sometimes overwrite files with files located nearer to the master cube.
New option
We added a -r option that erases the target directory before launching the command.
