Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for your nice words about XWiki's community.
In addition to the code submission, I would like you create an extension
page for the skin on
, so that all XWiki users can
download it and play with it or use it easily. You can get inspiration
from Lyrebird's page (
) for
example. Important point is to have the additional installation notes,
since your skin is packaged as a zip intended for filesystem use. Hop on
IRC if you need help creating the page.
Looking forward your next contributions ;)
Have fun,
Jerome
On 08/21/2012 08:43 PM, Jonathan Solichin wrote:
Hello Sergiu, friends,
First of all, thank you once again for this wonderful opportunity to work
with the xwiki team. It has been a learning experience that will no doubt
change my future in programming and open source. Like Sasinda said, all the
support and help throughout the project have been enormous. I think all of
us GSOC students will agree that it was one of the most interesting and
useful summer we ever had.
Thank you for the reminders to submit the code and evaluation.
The XWiki team made a great impression, and in my opinion, a very good face
for the open source community. I hope to be able to contribute more and
continue support/development on the skin as it comes up. Like Sasinda I
will definitely try to come back in my free time
Status:
The overall design and implementation goals of the skin is, in my opinion,
achieved (note: as planned we did not use foundation as the base of our
skin as the GSOC proposal stated). The skin works on a plethora of browsers
(tested in ie7-9, opera, ffx, chrome, and safari. devices: g2x, nokia 710,
nexus7, bb curve) and responds to size changes. Due to the limitation of
some browser, there will be slight deviations, but none should impact the
function of the skins.
There are some minor differences than those of the design plan. For example
the apps are not skinned as they were designed in the design plans. After
working on the skin, I did not think that was priority since there are so
many apps, that it wouldn't be the most fruitful use of the gsoc time to
skin one. I'll try to work on these in my free time. The idea to create a
2nd configuration page for the skin was scraped since it was deemed to not
be efficient.
In general, the skin is usable and "complete". I think to truly complete
the skin, we would need users to try and use the skins since I did not have
the time, and I think XWiki is too expansive for me to test every use case
scenario anyway. Future explorations would be how to make the skin
functions more efficient.
Thank you once again for the opportunity, do let me know of anything you
would like me to do. Thanks Asiri for dropping by and dropping us the hint
ahaha.
Thank you for all those involved in making GSOC happen, from Caty, Eduard,
Sergiu, Vincent, Thomas and anyone who I missed. Finally, last but not
least, Thank you especially to Jerome, for mentoring me through out this
time.
Best,
Jonathan Solichin
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