Get project buildable again & release a new version

[mik3y]

I haven't touched the code here in years, but I see a modest number of folks still trying to do new things with the project -- which is cool.

The code is starting to bit rot, however, which is less cool: Python 2 ie EOL, Django has had numerous releases (including several security updates), and many other lesser dependencies have developed issues too.

I started some work a few years back in the v1.3-dev branch to delete some cruft. I think successfully closing this issue would mean some combination of:

• Update to Django 2 and Python 2
• Delete clutter in the code, especially that which interferes with setup
• Clean up the public website, at least to reflect modern hardware options & setup instructions
• (Maybe) publish official docker images
• Release v1.3

Opening this issue to see if there's some interest out there. I would love to have some help, know there are also a few forks with some activity (what's up @johnnyruz !), so please chime in if interested and able to help.

[patfreeman]

I'm here to help.

[hanzov69]

I'm probably of limited use on the python stuff, but I've got some decent experience building containers with multiple arch targets

[mik3y]

Oh, awesome! Great to see y'all coming out of the woodwork with me, too.

I'll get some issues spiked out and will reach back out here with more of a plan. Have some previously-unpushed changes on my dev box to dust off and may push as well.

[hanzov69]

For perhaps my own uses, but I've been playing around with balena, would be neat to see if this could crammed in to one of those containers.

[mik3y]

@hanzov69 packing with docker would be rad. RPi seems to be the preferred hardware build this way, and a lot of folks seem to be in a miserable state of making the python build work.

[mik3y]

Updates:

• Project tracking v1.3: https://github.com/Kegbot/kegbot-server/projects/1
• Work-in-progress branch/PR with a bunch of changes: #377

[johnpdowling]

Chiming in if you need a hand or a tester, I've been packing the old server into Home Assistant containers for my setup.

[mik3y]

thanks John! I saw that a while back, super cool.

Current status is, master should be buildable & runnable. If you're feeling adventurous, you could try running from a docker build. There are some breaking changes to how configuration works, which are described here and here but not terribly exhaustively (pulls welcome).

[dotsam]

Great to see things happening here again! Last year I took a run at getting this up and running and merging in some things that were seemingly on the go a few years ago. I mainly started by integrating the bootstrap-update branch into the v1.3-dev branch, and then continued to go from there. I finished updating all of the old bootstrap classes that I could find, and fixed up the asset build process a bit. Then I started to try and add websocket support, and then I tried to move to Python 3 myself, but that's where I mostly stalled out not having too deep of a knowledge of python and the full extent of the changes needed.

I've just pushed my work up here to Github at https://github.com/dotsam/kegbot-server/tree/v1.3-dev-bootstrap, but there's unfortunately probably not a great way to get my changes merged in with everything else that's been done now. But with a bit of work, the markup and styling changed could probably be brought over. Might even be possible to move to Bootstrap 4 without too much trouble.

[dotsam]

Actually, revering my 2to3 and websocket changes leaves a reasonably clean merge request... but it's still pretty large, owing mostly to the bootstrap and libraries changes. There are a handful of other tweaks I did in there too... let me know how you'd like to proceed. I opened PR #393 to see what this merge would look like.

[mik3y]

@dotsam awesome! I'll give your PR a whirl - would be a nice update to pull in.

[rplankenhorn]

@mik3y I'm here to help as well. One thing I was thinking about was adding a GraphQL API but obviously upgrading to the latest version of current libraries should be a priority.

[mik3y]

@rplankenhorn that'd be neat if you want to give it a shot. less excitingly the existing rest API could use a replacement too - it's a mess of stuff right now.. i'll kick open a "v1.4" project for some more interesting work

[JarrodJ83]

Awesome to see activity here again. I got mine up and running by following the advice of @johnnyruz but it was not trivial. Being able to run this with docker will be huge! I will try to find something I can contribute to once I get things up and running locally. Thanks again for reigniting things here!

[JarrodJ83]

@mik3y I was able to build with docker but when I run things seem to just hang here:

[2020-04-11 00:00:13 +0000] [1] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 20.0.4
[2020-04-11 00:00:13 +0000] [1] [INFO] Listening at: http://0.0.0.0:8000 (1)
[2020-04-11 00:00:13 +0000] [1] [INFO] Using worker: sync
[2020-04-11 00:00:13 +0000] [11] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 11

Any suggestions?

[mik3y]

Hey @JarrodJ83 - that looks normal to me; it's probably sitting around waiting for connections.

Check the docs here: https://kegbot-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html#run-the-server

[JarrodJ83]

Thanks, @mik3y , will do. The UI wasn't accessible so I assumed something was hung. I'll dig more into the docs.

[mik3y]

no prob! can pop over to the slack group if you get stuck too.

[mik3y]

🎉 v1.3.0 has just been released. Hooray! Closing issue.