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  3. <channel><title>GNU social V3</title><link>https://gnusocial.rocks/v3/index.html</link>

  4. <description>Development blog where we announce our progress.</description><language>en</language>

  5. <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2021 18:54:16 +0100</lastBuildDate>

  6. <pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2021 18:54:16 +0100</pubDate>

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  9. Updates: V3 blog

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  12. <p>We initially thought that the milestones list would be enough to

  13. announce the development progress. But it's a little too vague

  14. and doesn't really let us express all the on going changes and efforts.</p>

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  16. <p>The <a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/commits/branch/v3">git

  17. history</a> is clear (we believe), but it can be challenging and obscure to outsiders and non-technical people.</p>

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  19. <p>With the introduction of this blog made with

  20. <a href="https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog">bashblog</a>, we hope to make all the progress more visible and easier of following :)</p>

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  22. <p>It has a <a href="https://www.gnusocial.rocks/v3/feed.rss">RSS feed</a> so, don't

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  38. <dc:creator>GNU social development team</dc:creator>

  39. <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2021 13:37:42 +0100</pubDate></item>

  40. <item><title>

  41. Updates: Implement StoreRemoteMedia for v3 and port Embed

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  44. <p>GNU social comes with two plugins that add relevant media functionality.

  45. Not talking neither about ImageEncoder nor VideoEncoder this time, but rather about StoreRemoteMedia and Embed.</p>

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  47. <p><a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/src/branch/v3/plugins/StoreRemoteMedia">StoreRemoteMedia</a>

  48. fetches remote files when they are <code>Linked</code> to in a note. I.e., when the major mime type isn't <code>text</code>. It triggers thumbnail generation.</p>

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  50. <p><a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/src/branch/v3/plugins/Embed">Embed</a>

  51. attempts to generate a page preview from open graph and oembed. I.e., acts when the major mime type is <code>text</code>.</p>

  52. 

  53. <p>We've changed so much with GNU social v3 that, regarding SRM there was no possible port, just a complete rewrite. Both plugins became smaller and easier to understand while promoting the same functionality with more stability.</p>

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  60. ]]></description><link>https://gnusocial.rocks/v3/updates-implement-storeremotemedia-for-v3-and-port-embed.html</link>

  61. <guid>https://gnusocial.rocks/v3/./updates-implement-storeremotemedia-for-v3-and-port-embed.html</guid>

  62. <dc:creator>GNU social development team</dc:creator>

  63. <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 13:37:42 +0100</pubDate></item>

  64. <item><title>

  65. Updates: Improve the Attachments system

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  68. <p>With the milestone <a href="https://www.gnusocial.rocks/v3/milestone-port-media-handling-from-v2.html">Port Media system from

  69. v2</a> we had ported the existing

  70. attachment system. The fact is that this system wasn't good enough.</p>

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  72. <p>It's always important to start with the original code as that allows us

  73. to review past decisions and understand all the corner cases previously

  74. considered.</p>

  75. 

  76. <p>Sadly, what motivated us to re-design the attachment system were the

  77. non-considered corner cases. In particular:</p>

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  79. <ul>

  80. <li>Remove <code>title</code> from attachment, as it's part of the relation between attachment and note.</li>

  81. <li>Remove <code>actor</code> from attachment, many actors may publish the same attachment.</li>

  82. <li>Remove <code>is_local</code> from attachment,  as it's part of the relation between attachment and note.</li>

  83. <li>Remove <code>remote_url</code> from attachment, different urls can return the same attachment.</li>

  84. <li>Attachment now has a reference counter </li>

  85. <li>Add entity GSActorToAttachment</li>

  86. <li>Add entity GSActorToRemoteURL</li>

  87. <li>Add entity RemoteURL</li>

  88. <li>Add entity RemoteURLToNote</li>

  89. <li>Add entity RemoteURLToAttachment</li>

  90. <li>AttachmentToNote now has a title attribute</li>

  91. </ul>

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  93. <p>Key commits:</p>

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  95. <ul>

  96. <li><a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/commit/32ad5dbd74ebb369c4b3ed688e1fb78464fabe49">32ad5dbd74 - [ENTITY] Split Attachment in various new entities</a></li>

  97. <li><a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/commit/c381e58d3307e7dd07abeb9cf5b3998e34f5bd48">c381e58d33 - [ENTITY] Refactor RemoteURL entities to Link</a></li>

  98. </ul>

  99. 

  100. <p>The structural changes and how it compares to v2 is detailed in our

  101. <a href="http://agile.gnusocial.rocks/doku.php?id=attachment">wiki</a>.</p>

  102. 

  103. <p>Some relevant observations:</p>

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  105. <ul>

  106. <li><code>Link</code> is now part of GNU social Data Representation terms. It represents

  107. any remote URL being shared in a note.</li>

  108. <li>There's only one fixed directory for GSFiles.</li>

  109. </ul>

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  118. <guid>https://gnusocial.rocks/v3/./updates-improve-the-attachments-system.html</guid>

  119. <dc:creator>GNU social development team</dc:creator>

  120. <pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2021 13:37:42 +0100</pubDate></item>

  121. <item><title>

  122. Updates: Finish the Avatar component

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  125. <p><a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/src/branch/v3/components/Avatar">Avatar Component source</a>.</p>

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  127. <p>Its controller handles upload, update and removal.</p>

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  129. <p>Important change from v2: Avatars are now regular attachments.</p>

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  206. <guid>https://gnusocial.rocks/v3/./updates-finish-the-avatar-component.html</guid>

  207. <dc:creator>GNU social development team</dc:creator>

  208. <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:42:37 +0100</pubDate></item>

  209. <item><title>

  210. Milestone: Documentation and Tests Infrastructure

  211. </title><description><![CDATA[

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  213. <p><strong><a href="https://agile.gnusocial.rocks/doku.php?id=milestones:initial_test_documentation_infrastructure">>WIKI Milestone entry</a></strong></p>

  214. 

  215. <p>GNU social now has its documentation available in

  216. <a href="https://docs.gnusocial.rocks/">https://docs.gnusocial.rocks/</a>. It features four

  217. different books. These are automatically generated from the <a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/src/branch/v3/docs">source</a> using <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/">mdBook</a>.</p>

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  219. <blockquote>

  220.   <p>Only the development book is in an elaborated state, the other books are

  221. holding for more ready code.</p>

  222. </blockquote>

  223. 

  224. <p>And two of them are new:</p>

  225. 

  226. <ul>

  227. <li>The <a href="https://docs.gnusocial.rocks/developer">Developer</a> is both intended to guide third-party plugin developers and to make it easier of contributing to the code.</li>

  228. <li>The <a href="https://docs.gnusocial.rocks/designer">Designer</a> is the most recent of the four and came from a necessity of keeping some standardization between templates and ensuring the same principles are kept in mind when designing new themes.</li>

  229. </ul>

  230. 

  231. <p>And two of them are updates from existing documentation:</p>

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  233. <ul>

  234. <li>The <a href="https://docs.gnusocial.rocks/user">User</a> one is adapted

  235. from the existing GNU social documentation for users that was provided in v2.</li>

  236. <li>The <a href="https://docs.gnusocial.rocks/administrator">Administrator</a> one is adapted

  237. from the "Unofficial GNU social docs" by Thomask who <a href="https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/issues/246">asked us to make it official</a>.</li>

  238. </ul>

  239. 

  240. <p>Together with the documentation we've introduced a

  241. <a href="https://agile.gnusocial.rocks/">wiki</a>. Its purpose is to walk-through decisions,

  242. convention, terminology. It's where we document the reasoning the development team went

  243. through before implementing more sophisticated functionalities.</p>

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  245. <p>Finally, when the documentation doesn't explain, and to ensure the whole code

  246. is properly tested, we have the

  247. <a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/src/branch/v3/tests">tests</a>. And the coverage is available <a href="https://coverage.gnusocial.rocks/">here</a>. At the time of writing the coverage has 98.76% code lines tested.</p>

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  257. ]]></description><link>https://gnusocial.rocks/v3/milestone-documentation-and-tests-infrastructure.html</link>

  258. <guid>https://gnusocial.rocks/v3/./milestone-documentation-and-tests-infrastructure.html</guid>

  259. <dc:creator>GNU social development team</dc:creator>

  260. <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:37:42 +0100</pubDate></item>

  261. <item><title>

  262. Milestone: Port Media handling from v2

  263. </title><description><![CDATA[

  264. 

  265. <p><strong><a href="https://agile.gnusocial.rocks/doku.php?id=milestones:attachment_media_embed_handling">>WIKI Milestone entry</a></strong></p>

  266. 

  267. <p>File Storage in GNU social is used for avatars, for notes containing

  268. attachments, and for notes containing links (in which case is an Embed preview).

  269. Notes can be created by local users or fetched from remote actors. Filehash is

  270. used to reduce file duplication.</p>

  271. 

  272. <p>When a user shares a Link that uses OpenGraph tags or has an OEmbed provider,

  273. the <a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/src/branch/v3/plugins/Embed">Embed plugin</a> generates a preview for it that may contain a thumbnail.</p>

  274. 

  275. <p>When a user shares a Link to an image, the <a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/src/branch/v3/plugins/StoreRemoteMedia">StoreRemoteMedia plugin</a> can fetch the

  276. file and make it available as an attachment, and will generate a thumbnail.</p>

  277. 

  278. <p>When an image, video, or other file type is uploaded or retrieved, an Attachment

  279. entity is created. When a thumbnail is requested, one is generated if an

  280. EncoderPlugin that supports the mime type is available.</p>

  281. 

  282. <p>There are two EncoderPlugins implemented:</p>

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  284. <ul>

  285. <li><a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/src/branch/v3/plugins/ImageEncoder">ImageEncoder</a>: Allows to compress, validate, rescale, and sanitize images using VIPS.</li>

  286. <li><a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/src/branch/v3/plugins/VideoEncoder">VideoEncoder</a>: Allows to rescale gifs using FFMpeg.</li>

  287. </ul>

  288. 

  289. <p>Another helpful plugin is <a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/src/branch/v3/plugins/FileQuota">FileQuota</a> which ensures a user stays under the file quota.</p>

  290. 

  291. <h2>How is the code organised?</h2>

  292. 

  293. <p>There are various entities related to attachment and thumbnail handling.

  294. The key ones are:</p>

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  296. <ul>

  297. <li><a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/src/branch/v3/src/Entity/Attachment.php">Attachment</a></li>

  298. <li><a href="https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/src/branch/v3/src/Entity/AttachmentThumbnail.php">AttachmentThumbnail</a></li>

  299. </ul>

  300. 

  301. <p>The plugins are able to act by means of the Events system, as elaborated in the

  302. <a href="https://docs.gnusocial.rocks/developer/storage.html">documentation</a>.</p>

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  314. <guid>https://gnusocial.rocks/v3/./milestone-port-media-handling-from-v2.html</guid>

  315. <dc:creator>GNU social development team</dc:creator>

  316. <pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2021 13:37:42 +0100</pubDate></item>

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