Rewrite OVF codebase

[joereddington]

The blog...

Priorities

For the next few months eQuality Time is going to be focusing it's efforts on a complete rewrite of the code for the Open Voice Factory, as well as experimenting with creating virtual White Water Writer camps.

There's a lot of reasons for the rewrite:

• The old github repo is extremely large because it contains quite a lot of versioned PowerPoint files and other 'stuff' - we want a much smaller repo for people to check out and play with
• The current architecture forces us to use a particular layout of input grids - we want something much smoother and more extendable
• OVF is written in Python 2.7, a language that ended full support this year - it's time to be working in python 3.
• There are bugs - there are sneaking and horrible bugs lurking around and by the time we fish them all out we made as well have rewritten the whole codebase.
• We want to release a new version of CommuniKate, which is ready to go, but we want to add some features to both the templates and the codebase at the same time - and it's better to do it all at once.

Actions

• [x] Publish blog about where OVF stands
• [ ] Convert to python3
• [ ] Review this issue: https://github.com/scanny/python-pptx/issues/478
• [ ] Write a 'dummy' version of the algorithm for 'which of these is inside the others'
  • [ ] Put it on code review and other sites to see if we can get a speedup.

Resources

http://www.theopenvoicefactory.org/ https://github.com/eQualityTime/TheOpenVoiceFactory

[joereddington]

12/05/21 14:11 to 14:31, (B) Work on: https://github.com/eQualityTime/Public/issues/111 +EQT

12/05/21 14:15, git clone https://github.com/eQualityTime/ovfrebuild 12/05/21 14:16, cd ovfrebuild/ 12/05/21 14:17, python3 test_convert_presentation.py 12/05/21 14:17, python test_convert_presentation.py 12/05/21 14:20, pip3 install python-pptx

• I get a syntax error testing for python3, but that's hopefully simple to fix. Should be an early action though.
• I eventually found the pythong-pptx issue I brought up and put it in this issue

This is a real 'sit down for the day and get back into the code task.

[joereddington]

This is a duplicate of https://github.com/eQualityTime/TheOpenVoiceFactory/issues/129