Re: [xwiki-devs] devs Digest, Vol 105, Issue 2 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

1 Mar 2016

Well it seems a lot of work to do, but I have some basic ideas about this project. Thanks
for your reply.
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   1. Re: [GSoC 2016]Introduction (Thomas Mortagne)
   2. Re: GSoC 2016 - Improve l10n.xwiki.org (Nanduni Nimalsiri)
   3. [ANN] XWiki 7.4.2 released (Ecaterina Moraru (Valica))
   4. GSoC 2016 (Anjali)

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 Message: 1
 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 10:27:01 +0100
 From: Thomas Mortagne &lt;thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com&gt;
 To: XWiki Developers &lt;devs(a)xwiki.org&gt;
 Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] [GSoC 2016]Introduction
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 Hi Jian,

 It's great that this project drive so much attention :)

 I will copy/paste what I told Manish since you are interested in the
 same project:

 We mostly discuss projects here so no need to contact me directly.

 What is in https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/android-authenticator is
 mostly a not finished crappy POC aiming at the following goal:

 1) Provide a reusable standard Android authenticator that any
 application would use to communicate with an XWiki instance. The same way many
 applications propose you to reuse the registered Google accounts for example. It
 must be as safe as possible (no clear password given to all
 application asking for it for example :)).

 2) As both an example of how to use this authenticator and a very
 useful tool, implement a synchronization adapter which will be in
 charge of:
 ** putting all (or a configurable subset of) the users from the
 wiki in your Android contacts and automatically update them
 ** (nice to have) allow modifying those Android contacts and send the
 modifications to the wiki

 There is a lot of stuff already started but should not be taken as
 granted and at the end the result should be:
 * well documented (especially what an application author should do to
 use that connector properly but also for anyone that want to continue
 working on it)
 * have automated tests
 * easily built without something like Android Studio (probably graddle
 which seems to be the new standard in Android world. XWiki is mainly
 using Maven right now and Maven have Android plugins.), it will also
 need to be automatically built on http://ci.xwiki.org

 Of course the plan is to have it on Google Play Store at the end :)

 Feature wise this project is not very big (and it's already started)
 but the most important thing is to be as standard and integrated as
 possible and easy to use for applications that would want to
 manipulate an XWiki instance.

 Your proposal should details what you plan to do, what Android version
 your are targeting (should support version as old as possible since
 latest version are far from being as common as application authors
 would like them to be :)), etc.

 On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Jian Guo &lt;aliezted(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
  Dear developers:
       My name is Jian Guo. I have been studied Software Engineering for
 two years in Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST), China. I
 noticed that you have been accepted as mentor organization in GSoC 2016. I
 am familiar in Java and Android Development so I am really interested in
 the idea - Android XWiki authenticator and contact synchronization
 mentioned in your idea page. I would like to ask whether there are more
 details about this idea. What does the "Android account" refer to here?
       Looking forward to your reply.
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 Thomas Mortagne

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 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 15:28:20 +0530
 From: Nanduni Nimalsiri &lt;nanduni.12(a)cse.mrt.ac.lk&gt;
 To: Thomas Mortagne &lt;thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com&gt;
 Cc: XWiki Developers &lt;devs(a)xwiki.org&gt;
 Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] GSoC 2016 - Improve l10n.xwiki.org
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 Dear Sir,

 Thank you very much for the quick reply. I like UX stuff basically and
 that's why I am very interested in this project. I am trying to get
 familiarized with the translator, so that I can come up with
 better suggestions for improvements.  I would be very much glad if you
 can enable
 Sinhalese support for me to experience the translator further.

 I shall follow your instructions and report once done or if I have any
 problem. Thank you.

 Best regards,
 Nanduni.

 On 1 March 2016 at 13:44, Thomas Mortagne &lt;thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com&gt; wrote:

  Hi Nanduni,

 Always great to see someone so interested in working on XWiki :)

 We did not really defined any scope for l10n proposal. For me the best
 is that you play a bit with it (maybe translate a few things, I can
 enable Sinhalese or some other language that would not be listed yet
 if you want) and see what are the main pain points for a translator.
 You also have a few ideas on

 http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Improvel10nxwikiorg2…
 and http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/i10n.

 Then you make a proposal with what you think you can achieve in the
 GSOC timeframe.
 http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/i10n is a good
 place to put details of your proposal and then discuss it on the
 mailing list with the community.

 Note: you can also ask quick questions on IRC (see
 http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/IRC/). My id on IRC is tmortagne
 (but no need to always as to me personally :)) there and my time zone
 is GMT+1 (France) and it's more or less the same for most of the core
 dev team.

 Here are the main features right now:

 1) A UI for contributor to translation keys with mainly
 ** a UI which display all keys filtered by language, resource and
 status (empty, outdated, etc)
 ** a search UI

 This is the main target for the GSOC. The idea is to make easier to
 contribute.

 2) UI and automated scheduler to update the keys and default
 translation on l10n.xwiki.org from the source (add new keys, update
 the english version if something change on git side, etc)

 This is used mostly by the dev team but it could use some love, like
 making things more asynchronous (right now you start an import, get a
 timeout and hope that it will be done at some point on the background)

 3) UI and API to export translation as usable resources (that's mainly)

 This one is ok enough for now so unless you see some easy improvements
 on your side no need to concentrate too much on it.

 On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Nanduni Nimalsiri
 &lt;nanduni.12(a)cse.mrt.ac.lk&gt; wrote:
  Dear Sir,

 I am *Nanduni Nimalsiri,* a third year undergraduate at Department of
 Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I  had
  been going through the XWiki's GSoC projects
ideas list since 20th  February
  and  I was very eagerly waiting for XWiki to get
selected for the 2016
 Google Summer of Code programme. I am very happy that XWiki got selected
 this time, because I had always been expecting to take part in a  GSoC
 project with XWiki community.

 Actually I am very interested in contributing to open source projects  and I
  already have experiences in working with a
variety of open source  projects.
  I am very familiar in programming with Java, C,
C#, JavaScript, PHP, XML,
 jQuery, web designing, cloud applications and many more which I have used
 for most of my university projects and other exterior projects. I am a
 quick learner and I am very confident that I would be able to catch up  with
  new technologies very soon.

 I am very familiar with JavaScript  and UI stuff. So I found an  interesting
  project in XWiki ideas list that matches with my
interests. Out of the
 project ideas listed, I would like to contribute to the project *Improve
 l10n.xwiki.org
 < 
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Improvel10nxwikiorg2…
  .
 *The
 project description includes : "*The student will have to study it and
 propose improvements, there is no definite list of things to do*". Can  you
  please let me know the scope of this proposed
project and how I should  get
  started. Thank you.

 Best regards,
 Nanduni.

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 *Nanduni Nimalsiri*
 Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University
 of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
 Software Engineering Intern, WSO2 Inc. (http://wso2.com)
 email : nanduni.12(a)cse.mrt.ac.lk, nanduni(a)wso2.com
 blog : http://nanduni.blogspot.com/
 website: http://nanduni-nimalsiri.branded.me/
 mobile : +94714114256
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 Thomas Mortagne

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 *Nanduni Nimalsiri*
 Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University
 of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
 Software Engineering Intern, WSO2 Inc. (http://wso2.com)
 email : nanduni.12(a)cse.mrt.ac.lk, nanduni(a)wso2.com
 blog : http://nanduni.blogspot.com/
 website: http://nanduni-nimalsiri.branded.me/
 mobile : +94714114256

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 Message: 3
 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 12:22:43 +0200
 From: "Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)" &lt;valicac(a)gmail.com&gt;
 To: XWiki Mailinglist &lt;devs(a)xwiki.org&gt;rg>, XWiki Mailinglist
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 Subject: [xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 7.4.2 released
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 The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki
 7.4.2.
 This is a bugfix release that fixes important bugs discovered in the 7.4.1
 version.

 You can download it here: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download

 Make sure to review the release notes:
 http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki742

 The following people have contributed code to this release (sorted
 alphabetically):
 Alexandru Cotiug?
 Denis Gervalle
 Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
 Eduard Moraru
 Guillaume Delhumeau
 Sergiu Dumitriu
 Thomas Mortagne
 Vincent Massol

 Thanks for your support
 -The XWiki dev team

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 Message: 4
 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 15:58:37 +0530
 From: Anjali &lt;shally.hp5(a)gmail.com&gt;
 To: devs(a)xwiki.org
 Subject: [xwiki-devs] GSoC 2016
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 Hi,

 I am a GSoC 2016 aspirant. I am interested in the project *"**Convert
 existing tests to the latest technologies*". I was a GSoC student last
 year. I worked on a project "Automation Testing" where I used Selenium,
 Maven, JUnit etc in building a Java Based Testing Framework.

 I would highly appreciate if I could get any pointers so that I could come
 up with a good proposal.

 Thank You.

 --
 Regards,
 Anjali

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