Task: Integrated Package Management (Server- and  Clientside)

Description:
Kajona v4 should be shipped with an intergrated package-management. This includes both, the installation of new packages and the update of packages locally installed.
A package may be one of the following:

• A complete module
• A single page-element
• A templatepack

Since an integrated package-management will be implemented for the first time, the task consists of a rather large, conceptual part. This includes the definition of the packages (including required metadata), the design of both, client and server implementation and finally the real implementation within the Kajona-project.

The task may be split into two subtasks:

• The server-side: A repository of packages, indexed and ready of download
• The client-side: The local Kajona-installation, downloading & verifying packages from the server and querying the server for new version

Possible Approach:

• Collecting/Defining all requirements
• Conceptual design of the single components
• Implementation, Testing and Documentation

Required Skills and skill-level:

• OOD, based on UML: basic - advanced knowledge
• PHP5: advanced knowledge
• JavaScript in combination with jQuery: basic knowledge

Assigned Mentors:

• Primary: Stefan (sidler), project lead, backend development
• Fallback: Jakob (jschroeter), frontend development

More information:

    sidler, sidler@kajona.de