Project 4 - opened!

[adamakhtar]

@codereading/readers Ok so ive forked active_admin for project 4. Ive made the branch 0.4.stable the defaul branch as well.

So lets get to it.

[eka]

Hi, sorry for the dumb question. When, how, where this starts?

[samnang]

@RoboDisco, Why don't we fork with the latest master? Because I know there was a ton of commits since the last month.

@eka, check out this https://github.com/codereading/HQ.

[adamakhtar]

@samnang good idea ill change it to master

@eka good question. In previous projects we've been trying to find a format that works and what seems to be common is first everyone goes off and tries to read up on exactly what the project is, maybe fiddle around with it and read up on documentation. People often post links to tutorials and other useful background info in the issue tracker.

Then we usually decide on a simple example app which uses the project under review and use it to start reading the code. In this case I or someone else will probably propose a simple rails app for say products and categories and see how active_admin provides a backend for this simple shop.

After that we individually look for an entrance point to start reading. I.e. in sinatra it was the dsl to construct an app.
Then someone one often just jump in and comment on the code documenting whats happening. People chip in with questions if they dont understand something. We've started calling these 'walk throughs'.

The point is to try and read the code by yourself first for a few days, then come here to ask questions, etc.

Some people just want a basic understanding of how it works. Others who are more familiar with the project may want to investigate particular areas of the code in more details or compare the project to a similiar project. So people are free to open issues here to start any discussino they wish and find others with similiar interests.

the whole process happens over 1-3 weeks. Nothin too rushed - time differences doesnt permit fast conversation. We did organize a google video meetup once and hopefully will do again for this project.

[agis]

@samnang 👍 ActiveAdmin was recently picked up by the Ruby OpenSource Challenge (http://rubyosc.com/) so a lot of nice commits have been made.

[adamakhtar]

@samnang and @agis looks likes active_admin 0.5.0 has just been released as well.

[agis]

Yes, and I've just started using it for a new app I'm making https://github.com/Agis-/bathliving