[Weekly Meeting] 2018/05/21
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<h3>Moderated By: justafish</h3>
<h2>Hello! :wave: Welcome to to our weekly JavaScript initiative meeting. It happens every Monday right here in Slack!<br>
- This meeting is chat-only. There is no video or audio component.<br>
- We leave about 5 minutes between topics, sometimes more, so that people who are multitasking can follow along - The meeting is threaded, so please keep an eye on thread notifications (this may not pop an alert depending on your settings.)<br>
- Please DM me or @drpal if you would like any items added to today’s agenda</h2>
<h2>1️⃣ Please introduce yourself if you’re attending today’s meeting!</h2>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>Sally in :uk:</td>
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<td>love.huria</td>
<td>Love in :flag-in:</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>Lauri in :flag-th:</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>Matt @ :satellite:</td>
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<td>ckrina</td>
<td>Cristina in BCN</td>
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<td>ashrafabed</td>
<td>Ashraf in US</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td>Daniel in London</td>
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<td>prestonso</td>
<td>Preston in :flag-us:</td>
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<h2>2️⃣ Frontend United Sprint Part 1: Remote participation. I’ve been discussing with the organisers and a few others how we can involve remote participants into our sprint discussions. Firstly we’ll be bringing along some audio/video equipment (does anyone have a paid zoom account we can use?). We also looked at using <https:></https:> - I think it would also be nice if someone physically in the room could be the “champion” for remote participants (perhaps rotating this role around the room). Thoughts?</h2>
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<td>ashrafabed</td>
<td>You should be able to use debug academy's paid zoom account</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>I’m sure we can also use Acquia’s account.</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td><http:> also works quite well usually</http:></td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>:thumbsup:</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>“No registration or downloads” <- I like that</td>
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<td>ashrafabed</td>
<td>With split in-person / remote participation, I've had the good luck with the 'primary speaker' speaking at their laptop to the remote people, repeating questions/etc by other attendees before answering them</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>I was thinking that maybe questions could be typed to the current “champion”, who could interject</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>or at least raise their hand to them</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>“<x> has a comment about modules”</td>
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<td>ashrafabed</td>
<td>yeah, that makes sense for ensuring remote participants are heard</td>
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<td>ashrafabed</td>
<td>my suggestion's relevance depends on your set up. it basically is that the in-person questions are repeated by the person nearest the mic</td>
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<td>prestonso</td>
<td>I'm happy to set up an Acquia zoom room for this if we need</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>^ same here</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>sounds like we’ll have a few people in the room with paid zoom accounts!</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>so we can set one up just before the meeting and post the link here in Slack, sound ok?</td>
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<h2>3️⃣ Frontend United Sprint Part 2: Let’s discuss agenda some more:</h2>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>Here’s the issue <https:></https:></td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>I would like to do a card sorting exercise as our first-day task</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>like <https:></https:></td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>I think it’d be really helpful for figuring out what everyone’s priorities are e.g. developer experience vs author experience vs site builder experience</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td>Do you want to do this now or at the beginning of the sprint or both?</td>
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<td>ckrina</td>
<td>Which day are you counting as first one?</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>the beginning of the sprint</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>Tuesday</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>I don’t think everyone is available on Tuesday</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>ok, Wednesday :laughing:</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td>I'm wondering whether this is something we could do during this week</td>
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<td>love.huria</td>
<td>what time are we looking at?</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>late morning?</td>
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<td>love.huria</td>
<td>ok, IST is around 4 hours ahead.</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>@love.huria that’s good to know! So if we started anytime in the morning that would be good for IST?</td>
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<td>love.huria</td>
<td>yes works for me.!! :slightly_smiling_face:</td>
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<td>ckrina</td>
<td>Maybe creating a list of proposed topics we could move some work forward?</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>I think there’s a draft on the github issue</td>
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<h2>4️⃣ We’ve started working on some tests in Nightwatch <https:></https:></h2>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>Is there any way we can work on these via GitHub? Does anyone else prefer that? (If it’s just me I’ll suck it up :wink: )</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>I wouldn’t mind working on Github.</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>:stuck_out_tongue:</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>So this will be quite straight forward if it’s all in one issue. Less straight forward if not</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>or each issue has a branch on GitHub that we can sync to the d.o issue as a patch</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>but there’ll be dependencies e.g. if you want to use the login command for another issue, and it hasn’t been committed yet</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>Yeah. Thats kind of a problem.</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>:confused:</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td>Turns out, scaling work up is hard</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td>I don't see a problem though to use the login patch everywhere</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>yeah it’s just annoying because if we had one mega-branch on github then we could all make PRs against the latest set of commands we have</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td>I'm curious what committers like @lauriii or @alexpott think about an approach</td>
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<td>alexpott</td>
<td>I was just wondering myself.</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td>@alexpott Do you mind asking your inner alexpott?</td>
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<td>alexpott</td>
<td>I think when the work lands in core it needs to be in discreet reviewable units. The plan on the d.o issue looks sensible.</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>so maybe we could do all the work on GitHub, and then when we’re at a happy-point we can split it up into patches</td>
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<td>alexpott</td>
<td>If we want to work on github maybe maintain a common branch with the commands and then separate branches (branched from the common login / logout and probably other commands) for each battle-test?</td>
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<td>alexpott</td>
<td>However if you think maintaining one big branch is easier then that might work. I can just see that apporach making it harder to work out when you're done.</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>I don’t think it’ll be too tricky given the commands are all in separate files</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>but maybe the PHP side of that will get woven together?</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>I was just thinking if someone wants to contribute we can say “grab this branch” instead of “well first you need these 6 branches”</td>
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<td>alexpott</td>
<td>I can see the advantage of that. I'm happy to help unpick any PHP weaves.</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>rock :partyparrot:</td>
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<td>alexpott</td>
<td>If that'd help or is needed.</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>I’m fine working in Github, I can see benefit in that. However, I’m concerned if there’s people who would like to contribute in d.o but not on Github</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>does anyone here have a preference for d.o over GitHub?</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>there’s bunch of people working on issues who are not on Slack or Github</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>Yes - do you know anyone who’s working on Nightwatch issues though?</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>I mean, I’m happy to take their patch and make a PR out of it - I’ll take contributions from anywhere :wink:</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>not sure, we haven’t really worked on this before so it’s hard to estimate</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>there’s frontend devs who work actively on issues but are not on Slack, and I assume they could be people interested in working on this</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>but I guess that’s fine as long as we keep updating patches frequently and keep the issues itself in d.o</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>ok, well how about we 1. Leave a note in the issue summary that we take contributions on GitHub and 2. If you’re not comfortable with that, if you contribute a patch one of us will roll it into GitHub for you</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>how do we make sure that the collaboration works on that?</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>for example vaplas who has been working on the ajax.js insert issue</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>droplet as well</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>@lauriii only talking about new issues we’re spinning up for Nightwatch commands</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>yeah, I’m not talking about the decoupled client work, just the nightwatch</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>@lauriii not sure how that’s related to the ajax command issue?</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>it is work in the same subsystem?</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>@lauriii not really, it’s quite a contained task</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>I don’t want to hold back the team if everyone thinks its a good idea to work in Github</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>I just wanted to bring up my concerns</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>@lauriii yeah, I hear them - just not sure I have a good answer :disappointed:</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>maybe it won’t work and will be a total disaster</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>I’m not expecting it to be a total disaster</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>but worth trying I think :wink:</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>I just wanted to make sure that we understand that these types of decisions have impact</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>understood :+1:</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>my hope is it will encourage more people to contribute to the work, having to not work with our fairly unique system</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>I think that totally makes sense on the decoupled application since it’s more isolated</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>I’m happy to support the team on either</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td>I think having one issue per test though helps with reviews on d.o.</td>
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<h2>5️⃣ Update from the UX team?</h2>
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<td>ckrina</td>
<td>Anything new so far sorry :disappointed:</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>don’t apologise!</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>lots of volunteer work going in here :partyparrot:</td>
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<td>ckrina</td>
<td>:smile:</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td>@ckrina What is the best way to follow your work?</td>
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<td>ckrina</td>
<td>Being a designer and help on the design :stuck_out_tongue:</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td>@ckrina ha, I was actually just talking about reading :slightly_smiling_face:</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td>You don't really want me to design stuff</td>
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<td>ckrina</td>
<td>We haven't published anything yet for the design until we're sure about the result</td>
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<td>ckrina</td>
<td>We're started a group to run some ux tests also</td>
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<td>ckrina</td>
<td>but we're still defining the tests</td>
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<td>ckrina</td>
<td>We're preparing an Agenda doc, but until we have some designs finished we really don't have much to update about</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td>@ckrina Thank you!</td>
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<h2>6️⃣ Nightwatch commands</h2>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>One question that just came up when discussing this with @drpal :</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>if we wanted a test that first enabled a set of modules, we could do this directly with Nightwatch (i.e. have the browser go to the module page and enable the modules)</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>so no PHP required. But probably slower</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>however that is something a functional test should be testing</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>@justafish thanks.</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>yeah. i am just trying to work this out in my head.</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>I guess for sites where we have modules already enabled, that’d be an installation “profile” like we pass to .installDrupal right now?</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>like how we can test settings tray, which comes with it’s own test module that needs to be enabled.</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>Something in the `before` section of the test.</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>that you can enable/disabled modules.</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>I think it’d be quicker to do that in this <https:></https:></td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>(although we should have a separate test for enabling/disabling modules that does run in the browser)</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>that said, definitely wouldn’t hurt to have a Nightwatch command that did it too - probably a bit easier for most people to write, even if it’s slower to execute, and can be used to enable something during a test</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>```<br>
'Test page': (browser) => {<br>
browser<br>
.moduleInstall(['settings_tray_test'])<br>
.relativeURL('/settings-tray-links')<br>
.waitForElementVisible('body', 1000)<br>
.assert.containsText('body', 'Tsettings tray test links')<br>
},<br>
```</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>@justafish I thought something like this.</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>excuse the shit formatting.</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>yeah that’d be great</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>Great. ok</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>I will work on that then. :slightly_smiling_face:</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>I actually got most of the way there this weekend but got tripped up with the php/drupal stuff</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>Since I, _as usual_, have no idea what I am doing.</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>Ok so to clarify, there’s 2 tasks here:</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>1. Document how to create a PHP thing that can be passed to .installDrupal that will set up a certain set of modules</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>2. Create a moduleInstall command that will literally go to the module page and click install</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>@justafish Couldn’t we have some sort of php exec thing that runs some php to enable the modules?</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>That way they can be enabled/disabled whenever you want?</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>@drpal I’ve done that on a client project - but exec out to drush</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>without having to go to the module page.</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>…which we don’t have, which is annoying</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>Yeah.</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>Ok.</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>oh, also we should prefix all these commands with .drupal</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>Yep. Can do</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>drush.js command:<br>
```<br>
import { execSync } from 'child_process';
<p>exports.command = function drush(command = 'status', callback) {<br>
const self = this;<br>
let procResult = '';<br>
const commandInContainer = (commandToRun) => {<br>
if (process.env.CMS_NIGHTWATCH_LOCAL && JSON.parse(process.env.CMS_NIGHTWATCH_LOCAL)) {<br>
return `docker exec cmsdrupal_web_1 ${commandToRun}`;<br>
}</p>
<p> return commandToRun;<br>
};</p>
<p> try {<br>
const proc = execSync(commandInContainer(`drush --uri=<http:> ${command}`));<br>
procResult = proc.toString();<br>
} catch (error) {<br>
this.assert.fail(error);<br>
}</http:></p>
<p> // Nightwatch doesn't like it when no actions are added in command file.<br>
this.pause(1);</p>
<p> if (typeof callback === 'function') {<br>
callback.call(self, procResult);<br>
}<br>
return this;<br>
};<br>
```</p></td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>:thumbsup:</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>user login command:<br>
```<br>
exports.command = function logUserIn(username = 'admin', callback) {<br>
const self = this;<br>
this<br>
.drush(`user:login --name=${username} --no-browser`, (loginUrl) => {<br>
this<br>
.url(loginUrl)<br>
.waitForElementVisible('.messages', 4000)<br>
.assert.containsText('.messages', 'You have just used your one-time login link.')<br>
.getCookies((result) => {<br>
const sessionExists = !!result.sessionId;<br>
this.assert.strictEqual(sessionExists, true);<br>
const domain = (result.value && result.value[0] && result.value[0].domain) || null;<br>
this.assert.strictEqual(domain, '.makemereal.local');<br>
});<br>
});
<p> if (typeof callback === 'function') {<br>
callback.call(self);<br>
}<br>
return this;<br>
};<br>
```</p></td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>hopefully i can get somewhere this week before the sprint so we can finalize it there.</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>is it unreasonable to ask for drush to be installed? :slightly_smiling_face:</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>(to run these tests)</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>cc. @mixologic</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>i mean, who knows anymore</td>
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<td>drpal</td>
<td>:stuck_out_tongue:</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>I guess that’ll peg the tests to a certain version of drush though, so that’s not really a good idea</td>
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<td>mixologic</td>
<td>yeah, drush isnt really part of the testing platform.</td>
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<td>mixologic</td>
<td>for pretty much that reason</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td>I think putting it into the install command would be nice</td>
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<td>dawehner</td>
<td>I think avoiding the trap of changing the system while you test it is best practice</td>
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<h2>7️⃣ Any other business?</h2>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>do we have meeting next Monday?</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>I’ll be travelling, I think @drpal will be too</td>
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<td>justafish</td>
<td>I’m not sure when @webchick is travelling, if she’d be available to run the party</td>
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<td>lauriii</td>
<td>@justafish I think I’m arriving 5mins before your flight</td>
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<h2>I have to drop off now, talk to you later! :partyparrot:</h2>
<h2>Thanks for attending everyone! All our meeting transcripts are available at <https:></https:></h2>
<h2>Aight folks, nightwatch testing / core testing for 8.6.x is working again. sorry for the collossal weekend outage. I thought I had confirmed it was all working, but I confirmed poorly.</h2>
<h2>@mixologic you have confirmed… poorly <https:></https:></h2>
<h2>lol</h2>
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