[xwiki-devs] About GSoC 2008

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

Vincent Massol wrote:
> 
> 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 
>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>>>>         <http://code.google.com/soc/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. 

Or perhaps Fabio would like to be a mentor this year and coordinate an 
XEclipse-related project?

>> 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
>>>         <http://xwiki.org> in a few days.
>>>
>>>         Thanks
>>>         -Vincent
> 

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Sergiu Dumitriu
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