21 May
2012
21 May
'12
4:55 a.m.
Hello friends,
I wanted to revisit this thread from a while back. One of the things we
were supposed to do (as GSOC students) was to fix an issue listed on JIRA.
Coming from a run-time development background, I was very much struggling
with this. I've been trying to get at this but have been for the most
part unsuccessful. I finally tried, though as a last resort (which was
probably a bad idea and I should have asked sooner instead of continually
struggling with it myself with no communication, sorry--definitely learning
from this), the IRC. Though @cjd was super helpful, and helping me a lot, I
was still unable to build xwiki-platform and xwiki-rendering (though I was
able to build xwiki-commons).
Since I could not do this, I tried to find a really simple JIRA issue that
could hopefully be changed without building. Out of all the available
issues, I though this seems to be the best suited [1] since it was mainly
just deleting text and adding a class (probably the most relevant as well
since my project is mostly front-end) so I did it and sent a pull request.
Though as @cjd advised me, even this may have not been the best idea since
it is on the front end and would probably need a lot more discussing--since
I could have made an error in my deletions.
In short, I apologize that I am not able to contribute much more to the
JIRA issues, it was definitely a learning experience. I take from this the
importance of communication and to not be afraid to ask the community since
they are super helpful. I will continue to work with this as I can in the
coming weeks.
As a side note, my school ends on June 8 and finals season is coming so
while I will try my best to not let that get in the way of xwiki, i am
afraid at the chance that it will. So I guess, in the spirit of
communicating, I thought I would let the community know.
I apologize for the inconvenience and my shortcomings and I hope that the
community can continue to help me!
Best,
Jonathan Solichin
[1]
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-7678?page=com.xiplink.jira.git.jira-git-…