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| [11:12:21] | <MarcosCarballal[> | Spatial Front begins development today on using FarmOS as an input source for soil health demo trial data! Exciting stuff. Expect us to start bugging you all more :) |
| [11:13:30] | <mstenta[m]> | That's great news Marcos Carballal! |
| [11:13:34] | <mstenta[m]> | > Expect us to start bugging you all more :) |
| [11:13:35] | <mstenta[m]> | You |
| [11:13:44] | <mstenta[m]> | * You've come to the right place ;-) |
| [11:14:38] | <mstenta[m]> | We also host a weekly development call at 12 noon Eastern on Thursdays via Jitsi: https://meet.jit.si/farmos-dev |
| [11:15:31] | <mstenta[m]> | But if we need something more dedicated I'm happy to make time when necessary |
| [11:18:45] | <MarcosCarballal[> | I'll let the team know about it. Many of the SFI developers that will be working on this are looking at farmOS/Drupal for the first time, so maybe it would be a good idea to set up a dedicated meeting. |
| [11:18:58] | <MarcosCarballal[> | Of course, I will try and knowledge share all the great stuff you have already given me |
| [11:20:04] | <mstenta[m]> | Sure thing! It sounds like Drupal is being used in a few other parts of the USDA projects, so hopefully the long-term consistency will offset some of the short-term learning curve. :-) |
| [11:20:53] | <mstenta[m]> | And yea! I'm excited to see what SFI can contribute back to the project in the process of refining/improving things for USDA's requirements! |
| [11:24:26] | <mstenta[m]> | Especially when you get some of your UI/UX folks looking at it. :-) |
| [11:31:09] | <MarcosCarballal[> | Yeah absolutely! We are setting up a FarmOS instance on Redhat 7. I know that our designer is going to be working on the design for FarmOS this sprint (next 2 weeks), so I may want to do some knowledge sharing on what is easy/hard to change within the UI. |
| [12:32:16] | <paul121[m]> | Hey Marcos Carballal - so exciting! Welcome, and please, don't hesitate to bug us! |
| [12:33:32] | <paul121[m]> | re: the farmOS design, I wanted to point out real quick that the Gin admin theme we depend on has some "moderately" significant design changes in the works |
| [12:35:51] | <paul121[m]> | You can actually test it out by installing the `3.x-dev`of Gin |
| [12:36:23] | <paul121[m]> | * `3.x-dev`of Gin: https://www.drupal.org/project/gin |
| [12:37:08] | <paul121[m]> | The changes are pretty minimal really, but it does change some things. Worth noting to the designer I think |
| [12:37:30] | <paul121[m]> | * the `3.x-dev` branch of Gin, * of Gin: https://www.drupal.org/project/gin |
| [12:38:11] | <paul121[m]> | * You can actually test it out by installing the `3.x-dev` branch of Gin: |
| [12:38:11] | <paul121[m]> | (project page) https://www.drupal.org/project/gin |
| [12:38:11] | <paul121[m]> | (source code) https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gin |
| [12:55:36] | <MarcosCarballal[> | Sure. Is it fair to say that most of the theming of the project is reliant on the Gin admin theme? |
| [12:56:11] | <mstenta[m]> | Gin is the Drupal theme that farmOS uses |
| [12:56:31] | <mstenta[m]> | It is responsible for all of the CSS, and some of the general HTML wrappers etc |
| [12:57:01] | <mstenta[m]> | More structural things (like actual form fields, sections of the page, etc) are generally lower-level |
| [12:57:13] | <mstenta[m]> | So a Drupal theme is a bit like a "skin" |
| [12:57:58] | <mstenta[m]> | That's just to say: sometimes "UI/UX" changes involve overriding theme CSS, and others involve altering things provided by modules |
| [12:58:39] | <mstenta[m]> | Generally speaking, modules will be agnostic of the theme, and just focus on the functionality they need to provide (which includes the content of pages and forms) |
| [12:59:28] | <MarcosCarballal[> | Okay great, that gives a lot of clarity, thank you both. |
| [13:01:17] | <paul121[m]> | Yes! That's a good way to frame it - these changes I'm mentioning are largely CSS styling. The structure and layout remains the same. |
| [13:03:10] | <mstenta[m]> | Marcos Carballal: here are a few more links you might share with designers... they give some good context to the design process that the Gin creators went through |
| [13:03:16] | <mstenta[m]> | https://noti.st/saschaeggi/0X9WTY/drupal-gin-admin-theme-the-past-the-pr... |
| [13:03:36] | <mstenta[m]> | https://medium.com/unic-com/the-gin-admin-theme-facelift-your-drupal-adm...\ |
| [13:03:41] | <mstenta[m]> | s/https://medium.com/unic-com/the-gin-admin-theme-facelift-your-drupal-adm...\/https://medium.com/unic-com/the-gin-admin-theme-facelift-your-drupal-adm... |
| [13:03:58] | <MarcosCarballal[> | You guys are relentlessly helpful. I love it. :) I will share that info with the designer. |
| [13:04:10] | <mstenta[m]> | Gin extends "Claro" which is a new admin theme that is included in Drupal core - so it has a solid future |