29 Apr
2013
29 Apr
'13
9:36 p.m.
Hi all,
Marius,
Thank you for pointing out that the mobile news application is not within
the scope of XWiki for GSoC. I will come up with an idea within the scope
as you have instructed.
Caty,
Thank you for directing me to the mobile application that is being
developed for XWiki. I went through the links you provided and read about
the design proposal and its proposed features in 3 tiers explained by
Ludovic. [1]
I forked the code from github[2] and used only the www directory and
created the application using Cordova. I installed it on my Android phone
to see its existing features. I could run the application on my device
successfully and I tried to connect to a cloud. I could not figure out how
it can be connected to a particular XWiki instance. Can someone please tell
me how the application can be connected to a particular instance. Is there
a test cloud that can be used to test the application?
I would like to contribute to this application by implementing some of the
features that are listed in the design proposal for the mobile client. What
features will be integrated in the next release of the application? I would
like to know if it possible for me to take this as a GSoC project for GSoC
2013.
From the Ideas page, the idea “Improve the messaging
feature” captured my
attention and I would like to look more in to that and to know
more about
the idea if mobile application feature development is not possible to be
taken up as a GSoC project.
I appreciate your advice on the project. Thank you in advance.
[1] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/MobileClient
[2] https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/mobile-standardxwikiclient
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <
valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
There is some work done in the mobile direction that you can check out
"Mobile XWiki Client and Mobile Skin repositories on xwiki-contrib"
http://markmail.org/thread/ytujvmshwdeun7kv
"New version of the Mobile App
Code<http://markmail.org/message/htfs3bqtj2tdpfnf>"
http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/htfs3bqtj2tdpfnf
If you really like the mobile area you can check out what is currently done
and adapt your proposal according to it. Then the proposal will be review
and see if we can find a matching mentor for it.
Thanks,
Caty
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea <
mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
of
page
to
in
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/buddhiprabha/150…
https://docbook.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/docbook/branches/gsoc-2012/roun…
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*University of Moratuwa*
Hi,
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda
<buddhiprabha31481(a)gmail.com> wrote:
been
Hi all,
I am Buddhiprabha Erabadda, a final year undergraduate from the
Department
> of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I have > studying about XWiki from few days now and I
have
> downloaded the xwiki-enterprise-jetty-hsqldb-4.5.3.zip [1] and run it
on
my
> Windows machine to understand the client side of XWiki. Now I am
getting
> familiar with the code base, referring to
various documentation. [2]
>
> After going through XWiki site and particularly News and Blog [3], I
> decided to come up with a new idea for GSoC 2013 for XWiki. My idea is
to
develop a
mobile news application for XWiki. This will enable users to
view
> news about posts, new releases, fixes, etc through the application. In
> particular, my proposed application will contain the following.
>
>
> - News will be shown as a thumbnail list: it will contain an image the
author of the news item or an image related to the news item, a
title
> for the news item, and a brief description about the news item.
> - When a user clicks on the news item, user will be directed to a with
full information regarding that particular news.
This application can have following features.
- The user can filter news: for example Latest news, news by a
specific
author, news from a particular period, etc.
- Add favourite news: this will enable the user to mark his/her
favorite
> items and there by access them at a later point of time.
> - Enable adding comments from the application
>
>
> This is the basic outline of my proposed mobile application. I expect > implement this as a PhoneGap application.
Using PhoneGap to develop the
> application will enable it to be run on multiple platforms, including
> Android, iOS, etc. The application will be beneficial for everyone
> including users and developers of XWiki because it will enable them to
be
updated
on the go using a mobile application.
I would like to know your opinion on the idea of
having the proposed
mobile
news application. Please add to list of features
if you have better or
new
ideas for them.
I'm glad that XWiki has caught your attention but I don't think your
proposal fits into our target for GSoC because:
(1) It's not related to the XWiki product. If your application can get
the news from xwiki.org then it can get them from other sites as well.
Even if you take the data (using REST) from the blog structure
(objects) that is specific to XWiki, that is just a small part, the
rest of the application (display and interaction) would still be
generic. I'd rather see the XWiki news / blog posts integrated in an
existing news application.
(2) The blog application already supports 'exporting' the blog posts /
news in RSS format, which can be used in any RSS aggregator, and there
are mobile news aggregator applications that can read RSS.
I hope this won't discourage you. If none of the listed
http://gsoc.xwiki.org project ideas attract you then you can make your
own proposal but it must be related to the XWiki product.
Thanks,
Marius
>
> I participated for GSoC 2012 under DocBook organization for the project
> “DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs” and successfully completed my
> project. [4] [5] I would like to contribute to XWiki in GSoC 2013 and I
> hope to know your idea about my proposed mobile application. Thank you
[5]
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*Department of Computer Science and Engineering*
*University of Moratuwa*
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