5 Jun
2007
5 Jun
'07
2:30 p.m.
Hi Thomas,
On Jun 5, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Thomas Drevon wrote:
Hey!
Regarding the dialog going on over at http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/
browse/XWIKI-523 ..thought I'd move it here.
Touché regarding the point that I should do this myself. It might
not be a hard thing to do, theoretically, if you're into both the
java code and the db model of xwiki. However, without the benefit
of this knowledge, I'm of the impression that fixing this would
take me a lot of time.
And I am of course in no position to expect that you guys, who are
busy developing xwiki for the good of all mankind, would do this
for me. But maybe I can suggest a trade of some sort? I produce
something within my abilities, and vice versa?
My plan is to get deeper into the development matters of xwiki by
writing snippets and plugins, and thereby growing steadily more
familiar with the architecture and the api. Right now I'm working
on jabber (maybe using the JWChat client) inside xwiki, enabling
real-time communication between the currently logged in users.
Would this be of interest to you? I will of course contribute this
plugin no matter what you decide to do about the mentioned issue,
but at least now I've stated my humble wish :-)
This is great to see that you're interested in learning more and more
about xwiki development. We would be very happy to help you achieve
greater knowledge of XWiki internals and I'd personally help you
whenever I can (I don't have all the answers though as, like you, I'm
also learning the XWiki internals).
Here's how we could work together: you send some emails on the list,
maybe with some GUI mockups about how you think tags should be
integrated. You'll get lots of feedbacks I'm sure, especially if you
show something in a mockup (people love images ;-)). Then you start
sending some emails about how you think it should be done and
committers will comment, tell you if there's a better way. And you
can ask for any question you have along the way.
WDYT?
After you start posting good patches to the code in SVN, showing your
understanding, etc we'd love to have you as XWiki committer if you're
interested in contributing to xwiki over the longer run (see http://
www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Committership for more details
on that). But that's for later... ;-) I'm just saying it so that you
know that the xwiki dev team is keen to get new committers on board.
We just need to ensure that they know xwiki well enough and
understand the dev process well enough to be given full commit rights.
Thanks
-Vincent