Wikimania Scholarships app/Cleanup sprint
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Sprint 1: Cleanup existing code
[edit]- Duration
- 2013-10-23 through 2013-11-08
- Team
- Bryan Davis, Chad "^demon" Horohoe (consultant), Katie Filbert (consultant)
- Sprint Goal
- Have a functioning version of the existing application running in Labs with major code cleanliness and security concerns addressed.
- Scope
- Core functionality of the existing application, namely providing a data entry form with validation for requesting a scholarship and supporting a simple workflow for reviewers to triage and approve/decline requests.
- Sprint review
- 2013-11-12T19:00Z via google hangout
Primary concerns to be addressed
[edit]- Robust and secure data access layer
- PDO or possibly Doctrine DBAL
- Robust and secure template layer
- Twig is a likely candidate
- Minimize number of files exposed via document root
- Strong separation of code from configuration
- Secure password storage for reviewers
- Current unsalted md5 is unacceptable
Tasks
[edit]- Done Move index.php and static content into a directory
- Done Cleanup database schema
- Done Make everything use routes
- Done Move session initialization to router script
- Done Securely delete session on logout
- Done Format with code-utils/stylize.php
- Done Change passwords to use crypt() with Blowfish
- Done Convert database calls to PDO
- Done Implement Twig template engine & Slim framework
- Done Convert application form
- Done Convert public facing collateral pages (credits, privacy, contact, translate)
- Done Convert reviewer pages
- Done Convert user management pages
- Done Move PHPMAILER to vendor directory
- Done Convert to use autoloading
- Done Change the way that Lang finds/loads localization files
Set include_path externally(not needed after other refactoring)- Done Custom 404 page
- Done Deal with unhandled exceptions
- Still possible to break things with an error in the error handler :(
Sprint review
[edit]The work done in this sprint was reviewed and approved by Ellie and Jessie. See Sprint 1 review notes for details.
Backlog
[edit]The backlog is a list of tasks that could/should be done discovered during the sprint. These are considered stretch goals and any unfinished at the end of the sprint will be considered for inclusion in the next increment.
- The backlog task list has been moved to Wikimania Scholarships app/Backlog where it will be groomed and maintained.