Start Fresh

[austinpray]

Let's go ahead and abandon the current dev branch that we made at HackDFW. It was a good start, but it was made under duress. I will keep the hackdfw branch for reference.

I'm going to

• get us started with my general go project template
• set up tests
• get us a simple "hello world" web app up and running
• deploy to chosen hosting (prolly gonna be heroku based on discussion in Hosting #4)

[ridhoq]

The technologies we were using at HackDFW were codegangsta/negroni and gorilla/mux . This is still fine with me. Do we need any libs for testing? And what about for user identification?

[austinpray]

I need to look at negroni again. Not sure about the testing situation there.

I love using testify for go testing as well as built in test lib.

@nathanielks had an idea for user identification at the meetup that made things p simple. What was it?

[nathanielks]

@austinpray let the browser be the user and have some sort of anti-bot verification to keep it simple.

[nathanielks]

hm... or we could at least let people input a username and if they so choose verify with an email. It could save us later in case we decide we want to track users for acheivements or something requiring user tracking.

[nathanielks]

Persona is an option: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/

[austinpray]

@nathanielks persona being shut down

[nathanielks]

@austinpray aw poo.

[ridhoq]

We were actually going to use persona at hackdfw

[nathanielks]

aha! so at least on the right track

[austinpray]

Okay I'm wrong: they are not shutting it down. They are stopping active mozilla development and handing it over to the community. http://identity.mozilla.com/post/78873831485/transitioning-persona-to-community-ownership

There are no plans to decommission Persona. If it fits your needs, please use it. We will support you.

Specifically, Mozilla staff will continue to resolve critical bugs, service disruptions, and security issues. Moreover, Mozilla’s new network operations center will handle tier 1 incident response for Persona. The center’s robust, human-backed, 24/7 monitoring will further increase Persona’s reliability and improve incident response times.

[austinpray]

I suppose this is done