symposion.boxes and symposion.cms

[barrachri]

From the settings I see that "symposion.boxes" and "symposion.cms" are required.

But I get a ImportError: No module named boxes and cms.

[russel]

I just commented out the entries in settings.py and urls.py and at least I could get "python3 manage.py help" to work. I think that I am using a newer version of Symposion than this template project works with. I suspect you are in the same situation. I am hoping someone has a template project that work with the latest version of Symposion.

[paltman]

Symposion, the app, is undergoing quite a bit of refactoring, naming pulling out the reviews and submissions as it's own app. Once work starts stabalizing there we'll create a new starter project most likely in pinax-starter-projects.

[russel]

Is there a timescale for something "alpha". I was wondering about trying Symposion for ACCU 2016 programme management (this week!) to see if we can then use it for ACCU 2017 full cycle. I'd rather not use and set up a system that then needs a massive revamp if I can avoid it. However if I have to go back to Django 1.7 etc. then I have to do that.

[russel]

@paltman I just tried to install this exactly as per the instructions, but sadly it installs symposion==1.0b2.dev3
I guess the installation line in the requirements.txt needs amending so that this template project works pending the "big change".

[mynameisfashanu]

I just wanted to find out if this issue has been resolved, is there a symposion starter_project for django 1.9 ? thank you.

[sksdutra]

I tryed to run the installer with Python 2.7 and Django 1.7.1 and I'm getting this annoying error: ImportError: No module named boxes

Please, how can I correct this?

[codersquid]

I recently experimented with getting an old symposion conference site on symposion master, and it turns out that both the boxes and cms apps are gone. I don't have a MR for this, but as a starter

• add a dependency to pinax-boxes
• replace symposion.boxes with pinax.boxes in your settings file.

You'll need to update the templates to replace the old templatetags. There's some other cleanup that needs to be done, but I haven't done any more work.

I can't remember what else I ran in to. Off the top of my head,

• symposion.cms is gone; use pinax-pages. there will be template changes you'll need for this.
• Signup forms and views were removed from Symposion. You'll want to pull in the old SignupForm, SignupView, and LoginView, or write your own.
  • you'll need to update your account/signup and account/login urls to use your own view instead of symposion.views.LoginView etc.
• markitup is no longer used.

If there isn't some docs on helping people upgrade from an older version of symposion, someone who is going through this process should take good notes to help create the docs. I went ahead and suggested for the old conference to just completely start over.

[codersquid]

Also, there is a new github repo called PinaxCon that you can use as a reference, but it is a little behind symposion master so you may run into things that need to be tweaked.

Due to that, I think this repo and that one should pin symposion to a commit rather than master. Whenever symposion changes, then the next step would be to stand up PinaxCon to see what needs changing, if anything then update the requirements. Likewise this one. I bet some of that could be automated in a travis job or something?