SilverStripe Meetup Presentation 03/03/2011
- 1. SilverStripe 3.0 Roadmap SilverStripe UK Meetup, London 3rd March 2011 Jamie Neil <jamie@gpmd.co.uk>
- 5. Highlights
- 6. Timeline
- 7. Questions
- 8. Beer
- 9. SilverStripe History Originally commercially licensed
- 10. First open source version 2.0 released in 2007 BSD licence New minor release every year since ModelAdmin
- 11. Modularisation
- 12. Caching
- 13. i18n Current stable version is 2.4.5 Management interface is still basically the same as original release
- 14. Vision for 3.0 Could you build Twitter on Sapphire? Emphasis on Sapphire as a standalone framework Improve and stabilise core features
- 15. Admin interface facelift, but not a revolution Extensive customer feedback
- 16. Lots of work on UX Facilitate creation of custom user interfaces Plans for inline editing as primary method dropped
- 17. Development Process Agile Being run as an internal project
- 18. Short iterations, measurable goals Transparency Backlog and status will be available on Trac http://open.silverstripe.org/ API drafts published on development mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/silverstripe-dev
- 19. Git Modules and themes have been moved to github https://github.com/silverstripe/
- 21. Encourage more community contributions to core Old subversion repos are now frozen Community members are providing svn mirrors Git doesn't have externals Does have submodules
- 22. SilverStripe is recommending piston as a replacement Supports links to git and svn
- 23. Highlights* Flexible Object Relational Mapper (ORM)
- 24. Separating CMS and Sapphire
- 25. jQuery UI
- 27. Performance
- 28. Configuration
- 29. Data integrity
- 31. Versioned assets
- 32. Data grid
- 33. Social * Many things still being actively discussed, so all subject to changes
- 34. Object Relational Mapper (ORM) Core differentiating feature
- 35. Move to more expressive object based queries Existing ORM exposes too much SQL Improve performance Optimise database queries
- 36. Less joining Database abstraction PHP Data Objects (PDO)
- 37. Non SQL data sources
- 38. MySQL to remain core due to module management
- 39. Separating CMS and Sapphire Sapphire difficult to use as a stand alone framework Admin interface all in CMS
- 40. Need to be able to create pageless applications Plan is to bundle basic admin framework with Sapphire Security
- 41. ModelAdmin?
- 43. jQuery jQuery to replace (customised) Prototype Already used in places, but admin interface still largely based on Prototype jQuery.entwine to replace behavior.js Progressive enhancement
- 44. https://github.com/hafriedlander/jquery.entwine jQuery UI will provide standard interface library Familiar to many developers
- 45. Will make custom themes easier to implement
- 50. Flexible Templating Regex spaghetti to be replaced with a proper syntax parser Will remove arbitrary restrictions on template args e.g. More than two args on an <% if %> block String quoting
- 51. Inclusion
- 52. $Up
- 53. Negation Decouple from SSViewer (AJShort) Will allow alternative templating systems
- 54. Performance Improvements to startup time Will make AJAX calls more responsive Efficient queries Less joins Smaller memory footprint (hopefully)
- 55. Configuration Currently very dependent on static variables Global state Move towards dependency injection Control inversion
- 56. Reduced coupling
- 57. Easier testing
- 58. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/silverstripe-dev/Lxj8QN-6Glk/discussion Configuration still by code No plans for database storage or web interface
- 59. Dependency Injection Example class MyClass { + public $dataService; // Dependency defined by convention public function getWidgets() { - return DataObject::get('Widget'); + return $this->dataService->get('Widget');
- 60. }
- 61. } DataService is registered with the injector (container), which then used to create the object: Injector::inst()->instantiate('MyClass');
- 62. Data Integrity Foreign keys Native database FKs not currently used Constraints Existing arrangement can result in orphaned data
- 63. Module Management Addition of metadata to modules
- 64. Dependencies Currently relies on developer knowledge Tools could allow installation of modules along with their dependencies Debian APT? No plans for web interface
- 65. Versioned Assets Files and images are currently not versioned controlled
- 66. Aim to provide a workflow similar to SiteTree pages Could possibly be extended to relationships (which are also currently not versioned)
- 67. Data Grid ComplexTableField needs replacing Has evolved organically
- 68. Hard for users and developers to use
- 69. DataObject Manager has become the defacto choice New Data Grid will take advantage of planned improvements to ORM Should make it more efficient
- 70. Social Integration with popular third party services Facebook
- 71. Twitter Tools to make integration with other data services easier
- 72. Other Potential Targets ModelAdmin
- 74. Command line tools (sake)
- 75. Generic requirements checker for installer Can be used after installation Static publisher rewrite
- 77. Better REST api
- 78. Compatibility Backwards compatibility is important Good upgrade docs will be needed Templating language will have minimal changes Edge cases will be documented Backwards compatibility layers may be added where appropriate
- 79. Some features may be moved to legacy modules e.g. ComplexTableField
- 80. Avoids bloat Code which was deprecated in 2.4 will be removed
- 81. Timeline Alpha Mid 2011 Beta Late 2011
- 82. API should be stable here Stable End 2011
- 83. Community Move to github intended to permit greater community participation Makes accepting patches to core easier How can we help? Modules Even simple or unpolished ones Tickets in Trac Easy ones are tagged Contribute your opinions on the mailing list
- 84. Testing Once alphas are released in the summer
- 85. Links Wellington presentation Video: http://vimeo.com/20075840
- 86. Slides: http://prezi.com/lr3lmrgdhlgj/silverstripe-3-roadmap-preview/ Roadmap: http://silverstripe.org/roadmap
- 88. Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/silverstripe-dev
- 90. These slides (and video) will be uploaded by next week http://www.gpmd.co.uk/