Development plan

Notes:

• Time in [square brackets] is an estimate, (hours in normal brackets) on done items is time actually spent.
• 21.5 hrs - early design meetings and documentation - already done

Alpha (19 September)

Delivers a D7 Panopoly-based site based on TN's own new distribution, with component/plugabble (initiative) widget system, internationalisation capabilities.

Done

1. 26 August = 4h: 0.25 Clone winacc_panpoly distribution repo -> rename to transitionnetwork_d7 - Distro here: ​https://github.com/transitionnetwork/transitionnetwork_d7 (1.5 hours)
2. 1.0 Change profile to be TN-focused, include key modules: (1 hours)
   • Address
   • Geofield, geocoder, geophp
   • Leaflet
   • dnl, i18n
3. Set up local development site (1.5 hours).
4. 28 August = 3h: R&D into
   • various aspects: BOA, Leaflet/OpenLayers?, makefiles etc (0.5 hours)
   • R&D into internationalisation dnl, i18n (0.5 hours)
5. Create Initiative content type with required fields (0.5 hours)
6. Create Base and Initiative feature, push to GitHub? (1.5 hours) - ​Base repo, ​Initiative repo
7. 29 August = 4: Social login decided, added to makefile: HybridAuth? Social Login (0.5 hours)
8. R&D for user profile modules, added user profile2 module (0.5 hours)
9. Ed Mitchell & Jim Kirkpatrick Skype PM/Design/Progress meeting (1 hour)
10. Looked into: ​Countries, ​Location Taxonomize and decided to KISS for now. (0.25 hours)
11. R&D/Decision Made: NO user location-related fields present on basic Drupal account, First, Last & Middle name fields only. ALL location and other features for users will be on Profile2 and defined later. (0.25 hours)
12. Added realname and realname_registration to remove need for username on registration (0.25 hours)
13. [UNDERWAY .75] Create User Profile feature (decide approach Profile2 vs core user fields etc)

Development total so far: 11 hours

To Do

1. [3] R&D Add & set up Social media login/integration, convert basics to feature.
2. [8] Begin/convert new Widget modules (core, initiative, registration etc) -- TO BREAK DOWN ONCE UNDEWAY
3. [2] Investigate I18n & related language/internationalisation modules & best practice
4. [4] Debug & improve Hub install profile.
5. [1] Set up test site on Jim's server
6. [3] Create very simple Bootstrap-based theme (little/no customisations)
7. [8] Begin/convert new Widget modules (core, initiative, registration etc) -- see
8. [8] Enable French language and translate some key bits with Google Translate.
9. [32] Convert D6 widget modules & features to D7 per IIRS/SolutionDesign
10. [4] Create 'Hub Profile' on clone (STG?) of D6 TN.org containins basic text, country, language and widget displays.
11. [8] (Ben?) Update widget HTML/CSS/theme as needed.
12. [2] Add Services related modules as needed
13. [8] Update all views, panels, features to handle language context.

Expected total: 12.25 +/- 5 (= 98 - 140 hrs)

Beta (? October)

Delivers a cleaned/tweaked up system and some web services connections back to the D6 site, plus an installed and integrated beta website.

1. [12] Fix bugs/do tweaks
2. [32] Add Services to sync between D6 <--> D7 sites (and future hub sites) with resilient queuing, plugable architecture
3. [12] Test, tweak, prep Beta, install, integrate

Subtotal: 6.5 +/- 3 days (= 52 - 76 hrs)

Total: 18.75 +/- 8 days (= 150 - 216 hrs)

NB: from Ed - Jim - your total time budget is 150 hrs. This gives us 3 days with a second programmer in beta phase (agreed as good idea). Bear this in mind!