Meeting 2012 08 06

Table of Contents Meeting Information Attendees Project Updates Design Development Architecture Development Discussion

Meeting Information

• Location: Math Science Building 5907 & Remote
• Date/Time: Monday August 6 from 1:00 to 2:00 PM
• Conference Line: 888-921-8686 #3102061670

Attendees

• Eric B
• Eric C
• Allan
• Logan
• Celia
• Alice

Project Updates

Design Development

Completed markup prototypes:

• Entity/Nav/Main
• Entity/Nav/Bar
• Entity/Header/Masthead

Markup prototypes in progress:

• Entity/Nav/List
  • Some comments on Nav/List
• Entity/Figure/Hero
  • Agreement has been towards Billboard instead
  • Prototype proposed that is based on `div` instead of `figure`
  • This is context-driven so that we should probably support this in multiple forms - either div or forms
  • This will be Entity/Billboard for the time being
• Gallery
  • This will be Entity/Gallery
• Logan is to look at throwing up a few more entities tonight

Architecture Development

Recent additions:

• Command-line argument specification of a config file location
• Add support for SCSS outside of WebBlocks via configuration file
• Provide default configuration values, but allow override
• Now possible to build your assets into your build directory using an untouched Git submodule:
  • https://github.com/ucla/WebBlocks/wiki/Integration
  • UCLA's OIT ECTA group has incorporated WebBlocks as described in "Using WebBlocks as a Submodule"
• Fixed several dependency-chain issues
• Updated build documentation

Next up on this front:

• Package custom JS, images and HTML files into build
• Look at other projects to come up with a portability strategy
• Create Vagrant-based build environment for testing

Discussion

What should we do about a color strategy?

• Starting thoughts: https://github.com/ucla/WebBlocks/issues/33 for reference
• Alice distinguishes between action-based sentiment and branding-based sentiment
  • In brand identity guidelines, we have primary, secondary and tertiary brand colors
  • The other set are things danger, warning, etc.
  • Punted over to the branding folks (Joseph and Mike) for review
  • Eric would like to see the sentiments broken up into action-based and branding-based
  • Alice will create a new section and start building on action sentiments
  • Mike and Joseph to be asked to provide guidance on the branding sentiments

Implementation challenges with extending Bootstrap:

• No support for nested selectors in `@extend`
  • Inheriting from something like `.btn` is easy because of its modular implementation
  • Other tools like `.nav` and `.navbar` are far more complex and non-viable
  • Implementation of `nav.bar` uses Bootstrap variables but not many `@extend` calls
• Definitions aren't laid out ideally
  • Often not a clear candidate for `@extend` or `@include`

What entities are people interested in prototyping next?

What entities that are prototyped do people want to start developing?

• Alice and Celia will start work on Entity/Masthead
  • Eric will define the SCSS prototype (the lib/entity and the mixin base for the Bootstrap adapter)