Infusion 1.5 release discussion at the community meeting

[Justin Obara]

At today's community meeting we talked about the upcoming Infusion 1.5 release. Please see below for the notes on the discussion.

Thanks
Justin


Agenda
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what to call the preferences framework
what to deprecate
what are the api changes since 1.4
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http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Infusion+1.5+Documentation+Changes


Preferences Framework (src/framework/preferences/, namespace "fluid.prefs.*")
Builder
Auxilary builder
Primary Builder
resource loader
model relay (if not moved to framework)
store
cookie store  (we should probably consider swapping cookies for local data storage as  our default persistence mechanism)
temp store
uiEnhancer (empty) fluid.prefs.uiEnhancer
uiOptions (empty) (renamed to fluid.prefs.prefsEditor)
panel (base grade)
enactor (base grade)
url utilities
fatPanel grade (renamed to separatedPanel)
iFramePanel
SeparatedPanel
IsolatedPanel
starter grades/schemas
starter panels (e.g. contrast, textSize...)
starter enactors

UIOptions: Our Instance of a Prefs Editor
4 lines of code

Top-level Components
textfieldSlider
slidingPanel

Things To Deprecate
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demands
non-autoInit components (including initSubcomponents, initFunctions, etc.)
old super applier (replaced by model relay)
guards, postguards (replaced by model relay)
FSS
initDependents
lifecycle functions
old-style uploader API
old-style reorderer API
old-style IoC configuration such as fluid.COMPONENT_OPTIONS, @0, @1 syntax, etc.
workarounds/hacks for old browsers
Flash support
THE RENDERER
RADICAL STYLEZ (maybe, maybe!)
renaming fluid.defaults
no more distinction between options and other stuff--eliminate custom signatures and options


Things to remove now
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bgiframe
json2.js
ariaTabs (should be replaced by the one from jQuery UI)
tooltip (should be replaced by the one from jQuery UI)

Roadmap for new base clases:
fluid.modelRelayComponent will be introduced in 1.5 - components will gradually migrate from fluid.modelComponent to fluid.modelRelayComponent. fluid.modelComponent itself will be abolished in 2.0, and fluid.modelRelayComponent will be renamed to fluid.modelComponent
"fluid.newRendererComponent" will appear in 2.0 beta, "fluid.rendererComponent" will be renamed to "fluid.oldRendererComponent". For 2.0 release, fluid.newRendererComponent will be renamed to fluid.rendererComponent


Proposed hierarchy for 2.0
src/
    lib/
    framework/
        preferences/
    components/
        one folder per component
tests/
    framework/
        preferences/
    components/
demos/
    showcase/
        one folder per component
    integration/
    manual/
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