[xwiki-devs] About GSoC 2008

[Vincent Massol]

On Mar 3, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:

> Hi Vincent,
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net>  
> wrote:
>
> On Mar 2, 2008, at 7:03 AM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 1, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Sorry if this is the wrong place / time to ask this question.
>>>
>>> I wanted to know whether XWiki will participate in GSoC 2008.  
>>> ( care to hint some project ideas ? )
>>
>> answer is yes!
>>
>> We all need to think about cool project ideas we want to achieve.  
>> We could start by reviewing the leftovers from last year + add some  
>> new ones.
>>
>> Do we have syntax highlighting in XEclipse ? I think this is one of  
>> the leftovers. But I'm not sure whether itself alone be enough for  
>> a summer project.
>
> No we don't have it AFAIK. However I don't think it's complex to do  
> since there's a velocity editor plugin. It should simply be a matter  
> of using it. As you say this sounds like something a bit too small.  
> However if you have other large ideas that you could add with this,  
> then it's worth proposing them on http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/
>
> Once i thought it would be nice to have off-line rendering of pages  
> (no need to be connected to view the results) in XEclipse (is this  
> possible ?). But now I'm wondering if it's worth putting another  
> GSoC project on XEclipse (?), since fabio seems to be doing a great  
> great great job on XEclipse ....

I think I agree with this too.

> I personally would like to get familiar in core xwiki development  
> (in contrast to add-on development), but i got no idea that would  
> suite a summer project yet :(
>
> Hope you (core developers) will put up something cool (and  
> challenging) soon :)

Yep, we will, definitely. Stay tuned.

Thanks
-Vincent

> Thanks a lot.
>
> - Asiri
>
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> - Asiri
>>
>>
>> If anyone has cool ideas please send them on this list. I'll  
>> organize a new space for collating them on xwiki.org in a few days.
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
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