wax-2-init.md

Marii and Alex meet to plan the future of Wax…

Here are some of the ideas that surfaced

Note: Checkboxes designate if a tangible issue has been created and added to project board.

• wax_tasks#91 > Produce separate JSON file instead of adding to data CSV #tasks
• Namespace wax-protected fields (e.g., wax:full_image wax:largest_image wax:thumbnail wax:iiif_manifest) #tasks #theme
• Allow config of metatada dictionary in item layout without having to edit layout directly #theme
• Make variables configurable for OpenSeadragon #theme
• Take out Wax configurations out from _config.yml. Maybe put in _data folder? #theme
• Be less opinionated about image sizes, warn but let them figure it out #tasks iiif
• Make image derivative depth configurable (e.g., zoom level) #tasks iiif
• Make simple theming changes easier via Sass vars #theme
• Use tailwind(?) or other non-bootstrap scss framework #theme
• Explore ways to bring in data/md into item pages more seamlessly or generalizable. #tasks
• Make a wax thor cli package versus invoking with rake #tasks
• Add GitHub Actions template to kit version #meta
• Redo documentation #docs
• Add simple multi-language support via core theme or recipe #theme #docs
• Minify, compile, optimize--just go as far as we can pretending this is React. #theme
• Make it easier to use remote manifests (can test integration with aperitiiif) #tasks
• Use the vips upgrades to wax_iiif that are hiding in a branch. Make vips vs imagmagick requirement change clear in docs. #tasks #iiif #docs
• Consider deprecating Dockerfile? #kit
• Create wax_theme repo and move all the jekyll theme files to it. #meta

  Note: Recommend folks fork the theme if they want to do lots of customizing and load theme from their fork; core theme should support basic theming from sass vars overrides.

• Convert wax repo into demo & flagship repo that it kind of is already, but load theme from theme repo & keep things clean & simple. Include some "kit" features, e.g., "Here's all the stuff put together for you, with gem theme & gem tasks loaded, github actions ready to publish to gh-pages for you" #meta
• wax#105 > Move tests from wax into wax_tests repo; load from gem into wax kit but make it easy to remove from gemfile & drop the dependencies (e.g., html-proofer and nokigiri which are slow) #meta
• Create a v1 folder within wax wiki and move current docs into it for archive viewing. #docs
• Integrate behavior from wax-facets #theme