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Re: Refactorisation progress : an indicible truth?

 

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Lionel Dricot <ploum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey, thanks for solving that ! Nice catch.
>
> Unfortunately, it appears that not all tags are displayed. (I saw it
> once with test data but it's more noticeable  with a lot of tasks and
> tags.

There are troubles with tags parent/child relationships, I'm currently
looking into this.

> Lionel
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> Le vendredi 26 février 2010 à 11:00 +0100, Bertrand Rousseau a écrit :
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Bertrand Rousseau
>> <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Lionel Dricot <ploum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Le vendredi 26 février 2010 à 00:47 +0100, Bertrand Rousseau a écrit :
>> >>
>> >>> I suggest you mark the problematic methods with a special comment,
>> >>> like #FIXME or #REFACTOR. I saw you already did this on some, it's a
>> >>> good idea to continue.
>> >>
>> >> Yep, I did that.
>> >>
>> >>> > Each time I'm solving something, I discover something else, it makes
>> >>> > progress really slow :-(
>> >>>
>> >>> If you want some help, we could provide it, but you need to describe
>> >>> what precise problems must be solved, otherwise it's hard to jump in.
>> >>
>> >> Hm, I understand that this is not easy. Right now, things are starting
>> >> to work (well, tasks and tags are displayed) and 0.2.2 will be released.
>> >>
>> >> It's maybe a good time to jump in to understand a bit more the new code
>> >> base. (I plan to document that someday). A good start might be to read
>> >> the new requester and the comment at the start of FilteredTree.
>> >>
>> >> Don't hesitate to ask me any question you might have when you don't
>> >> understand something. If you plan to work on a bug or a feature, just
>> >> ask me what you want to do and I will explain you if it fits in the
>> >> refactorisation and what should be done.
>> >>
>> >> One issue I have currently (and I don't plan to work on it soon) is that
>> >> the "All tags" tag is displayed twice, I've no idea why. I also
>> >> discovered that drag-n-drop is broken in the TagTreeView. This is very
>> >> surprising as I don't remember touching it.
>> >
>> > I had a look at this issue. It seems that the iteration mechanism is
>> > broken in tagtree. For first-level nodes, on_iter_next should return
>> > the next item at the same level. But since first-level nodes are child
>> > of the root, but they don't have (anymore, I think) a ref to their
>> > parent, it cannot iterate correctly, hence it stops after the first
>> > node. Then all rows are added by the row_inserted method, including
>> > the already available rows (=pseudo tags) when the treeview builds
>> > itself.
>> >
>> > This is not a problem with the tasks since you defined an iterator in
>> > FilteredTree. We need something like this for the tags as well now.
>> >
>> > I guess that, if possible, we should push some kind of tree iterator
>> > upwards, near the Tree itself, so that each tree element would have
>> > access to it, not only FilteredTree objects.
>>
>> After takig a closer look to your next_node() method, I realized it is
>> preferable to redefine on_iter_next directly in the tagtree. I just
>> did it, and now the tags are correctly displayed in the sidebar (see
>> revno 674) (it only changes tagtree.py)
>>
>> >> There's also 39 FIXME and 28 TODO in the source code. Might be useful to
>> >> have a look.
>> >>
>> >> If any of your work is touching the browser.py file, please get in touch
>> >> with me before doing anything, as long as it's not merged.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> All in all, I'm seeing a lot of bad stuffs that are killing a kitten
>> >> but, in the end, I really consider that the roots are really well done.
>> >> There are a lot of stuffs that work automatically, and, that are even
>> >> sometimes elegant. Considering we are one year old only, that we
>> >> accepted many many patches from everywhere, this is a great achievement
>> >> and I'm very proud to be part of it.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Lionel
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>> > --
>> > Bertrand Rousseau
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Bertrand Rousseau



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