[gentoo-soc] Gentoaster - Week 9 progress report

[gentoo-soc] Gentoaster - Week 9 progress report

[Liam McLoughlin]

Hey guys,

Decent week productivity wise. Here's a rundown of what I've been
doing this week:

- Added keyboard layout support to the build tool (just need to do
layouts loading in the WebUI now and it's complete)
- Added support for USE flags, package USE, FEATURES and package
accept keywords to the WebUI
- Added a simultaneous builds configuration option (should a user be
allow to run two builds at once? basic request limiting)
- Fixed up the kernel configuration so that we actually have a
framebuffer device at last
- Fixed up the Fluxbox config and updated the Stage3/Portage downloads
(X can be launched now, works well)
- Added an XFCE config since Fluxbox is even more minimal than I
thought (includes Firefox, again, works very well)
- Made huge improvements to the PHP code, tidied up, moved to mysqli
with prepared statements, used filter_input with a custom filter for
shell arguments

So yeah, pretty good week. I'm coming to the end of parts of my
project that I actually planned in my proposal now, most of what there
is left to do is polish and make things look better. So here's the
plan for this week:

- Add the keyboard layout list support to the WebUI
- Look into localisation for the unwired language option on the WebUI
- Tidy up code for WebUI
- Improve look of WebUI
- AJAXify status bar on the WebUI
- Do more testing of the configurations, create more sample ones
- Figure out some way to do additional setup, things like xinitrc,
inside the wizard

After this week I'll pretty much be taking suggestions for ideas,
gonna try think of some more. There needs to be an easier way to
install and setup all of this, so that's one thing to do. Also, I
figure I could remove the Gearman dependancy fairly easily. It was a
nice crutch for getting things up and running but I'm not really
relying on much of it's functionality at this point other than it's
distributed functionality (which I haven't tested works with my code,
anyway). Lastly there needs to be some kind of initscript for the
daemon rather than just dropping it in a screen and leaving it.

Cheers,
Liam