Display version number on main page

[omwah]

In order to help debug customer issues, the main IIAB page should show the version number. Also we should tag the repo with version numbers before we deploy new rpms.

[braddockcg]

John,
This is a good ice breaker task to get you oriented to the system. Please add code to display the version number stored in iiab.version to the Settings page. version is defined in iiab/init.py. You will need to pass it as a parameter to the top level home template, and then display it in the templates/home.html template in the div for id="page11".

Not much of a task, but it will force you to learn about the templating system and position you to handle more sophisticated tasks.

Thanks,
Braddock

[johnjkim]

Yessir. I will take on this issue.

[johnjkim]

Done; the task wasn't so bad. Please check. Fortunately, Vim skills came in quite handy there.

A few questions:
Is there some sort of review procedure you have before a contributor can push into the system? What about displaying the version number on "the main IIAB page" as omwah suggested? Wouldn't that mean including the version number on the home screen?

Thanks.

[braddockcg]

Sorry John, not quite that easy. You need to pass iiab.version itself into the template, not just update the text to "0.4.4". We need to have one place where version is stored - in iiab/init.py - I have to update it every time there is a new release. We can't maintain the HTML separately.

So you need to pass iiab.version into the template and have it display. Does that make sense?

Thanks,
Braddock

[gnufreedom100]

Hi John,

The Jinja template docs are at http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/templates/ .
You can put your python code between the {% %} blocks, and you output
the contents of a variable with {{ your_variable }} .

Internationalization stuff is at http://pythonhosted.org/Flask-Babel/ .

[omwah]

Also, be aware that I moved settings into its own template file last night. So make sure you pull the latest changes.

[johnjkim]

Ok, seems that I will have to study the different statements in Jinja.

[braddockcg]

Thanks John. Hopefully this will be a pleasant learning experience which will enable you to help on more complex matters. Let us know if you have any questions or want a different task.

[johnjkim]

By the way, omwah, from moving settings to its own template, the language button is broken.

[omwah]

Yes I am in the progress of fixing that.

[johnjkim]

Woot. I've accomplished the task, but I accidentally did a git push -f, removing two of your commits. Please don't pull the first thing today.

Anyway, how does it look?

[braddockcg]

Nice work! Looks good. When you complete a task feel free to close the ticket. I'll think of something else for you.