Re: Agora Octave: CSS preprocessors and continuous integration

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Wendy Liu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been working on implementation details for Agora Octave
> (http://dellsystem.me/posts/socis-2012-with-octave/), and I was hoping to
> hear some thoughts on the following topics:
>
> CSS preprocessing with Less.js (http://lesscss.org/): Standard CSS syntax is
> very limited and lends itself to code duplication and disorganisation. To
> counter this, Less.js pre-processes CSS and brings in variables, mixins,
> nesting, and basic operations to the mix. It's released under the Apache
> license. I'm planning on using client-side compilation for debugging and
> then enabling server-side compilation in production. Anyone have any
> objections to or see potential problems with using Less.js?
>
> Continuous integration: Unit tests are very helpful in a project of this
> complexity. As development proceeds and the codebase increases in size, so
> will the number of tests and so, too, will the time taken to run all the
> tests. After a while it will become too cumbersome to run the tests
> regularly, especially if we want to ensure compatibility with multiple
> versions of Django and/or Python. I'm this vein, I'm thinking of using
> Travis (http://travis-ci.org/) for automated unit testing management;
> however, I'd like to know if the community has other recommendations,
> particularly if there is integration with Mercurial.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Wendy

Hi Wendy,

Good to hear your work is progressing.

I have no experience at all about what you are asking, so what you
said sounds good, provided you know how to use these tools or learning
them will not hinder the Agora development.

I say go ahead.


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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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University of Zürich
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