March 2009 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [GSoC] Regarding the XEclipse build environment setup
by Udai Gupta 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi, I am a senior undergraduate student from India. I am interested in "Integration of various source editors in XEclipse" I was trying to set the build environment for XEclipse. should I go by README which say use http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4-200806172000/inde… or I should check latest release http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4.2-200902111700/in… Regards, Udai Gupta

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[xwiki-devs] Need Suggestions
by apurv gupta 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi All, I have posted a proposal for calendar application integration in XWiki. Can you guys suggest me when someone says "Calender" what picture comes into your mind?? or in simple words, what do you expect in a calendar on Wiki? waiting for your suggestions... -- Apurv Gupta Indian School of Mines University

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[xwiki-devs] [Gsoc-2009] Photo album application
by Harsha Halgaswatta 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi all In point of a photo album it should have many features , the excisting stuff support the most basic features. Hence i may need some backend support for some functionalities. So as i feel i have to involve with backend components or even make some backend stuff (skin level or pluging level ) that yield the application level implementation easy. if so would you mind directing me towards worth readings relating to those stuff . Having a prior familiarization among those would be effective in case of providing a good proposal and even for implementation. Thanking you Harsha

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[xwiki-devs] [GSoc] Application for XWiki Jabber, Google Talk, Skype Integration
by Tharindu Madushanka 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi, I have submitted my proposal for project idea Jabber, Google Talk, Skype Integration with XWiki. I would love to hear more information on section - tentative project architecture, in order to come up with a good architecture for the project. Please comment me on my work. Thank you, *H.T.M. Gamage ** *Student,* * Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa, SriLanka. Mobile: +94 (71) 5518852 Blog : tharindufit.wordpress.com

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[xwiki-devs] photo album svn problem
by Amila Jayatillaka 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi all, I tried getting source of old photo album application from this url. http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/xwiki-applications/trunk/photoa… I installed maven and integrated it with netbeans 6.5 and when i tried to get the project first it loaded all the dependency jar files and finally it say that it can't find the resource of photo album application Unable to find resource com.xpn.xwiki.platform.applications:xwiki-applications:jar:20-SNAPSHOT' in repository xwiki-applications-repo ( http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/xwiki-applications/trunk/photoa… ) Is there any other way to get the source of this photo album thanks in advance.

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[xwiki-devs] [ GSOC ] Google Docs Integration
by Arun Reddy 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi, I have submitted my proposal for idea Google Docs Integration with XWIKI. I would like to have some feed back on the application so that i can make some improvements. Kindly comment on the application. Thanks and Best Regards, Arun Reddy Nelakurthi arunreddy(irc)

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[xwiki-devs] Fwd: Summer of Code Students
by SG 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

An interesting message from a GSoC mentor. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yuval Levy <goo...(a)levy.ch> Date: Mar 28, 6:03 pm Subject: Summer of Code Students To: Google Summer of Code Mentors List Hello Jan, Galloth <lordgall...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > But I will not start programming until I will be selected, so I give > up on hugin (which requires sending a patches) although I understand > why you requiere it. > But when you asked, I am interested. Is that topic still free? Should > I write proposal even if I will work on hugin only after I got > selected? We're not looking for mercenaries here, we are looking for committers to join our community which is all about giving and not about taking. Selection for participation in Google Summer of Code is a privilege. We are humbled by Google's generosity toward our project. We are equally humbled by the generosity of all contributors to the community and by the generosity of students who decide to apply. The only feedback I can give specifically to the question you are asking is that you are free to write a proposal and we will consider it like every proposal. Potentially we could even accept you and get you started during the community bonding period. And we could decide toward the end of the community bonding period to ditch you for whatever reason. No money for you then. And let's not forget that we could fail you at mid term and at the end of the program. And you know what? I'm not interested playing this kind of games. Because from your statements I get the impression that once Summer of Code is over you will disappear, and all my efforts and Google's money will have been wasted on paying for some code that we could probably get done faster, better, with less effort and money. My interest is to attract people to stick around in the long term, to see them growing. It's an investment. Like any investment, initially it costs more than it yields. Over time it bear fruits. Your post motivated me to look back, to see how the return on our investment was. I am happy to see: * Ippei (2007) still active on the Mac build despite having joined the workforce. * León (2007) still active on FreePV and applying to VLC this year to add panorama playing capabilities there in a joint project that the two organizations have tried to set up since last year. * Zoran (2007) went on mentoring in 2008 and is still around despite being very busy in his new job. Out of five 2007 students that's not bad. Of the other two students one was a superstar. Her code is great. She has moved on. The other one we had to fail, but it was a good learning experience for both. He completed his 2008 GSoC project with another organization successfully, and we learn to introduce the patch requorement. * Marko (2008) still around, integrated his code long after GSoC was over. * James (2008) still contributing fixes. Integrated his code long after GSoC was over. * Tim (2008) ready to be a mentor or a student this year, depending what occasion arises, and still contributing. Integrated his code long after GSoC was over. * Fahim (2008) still active on his branch with the masking code. It's our shortcoming that his code is not integrated in Hugin yet because we do not really know how to evolve the user interface to make use of the advanced tool he developed. * Onur (2008), who with Zoran has worked on one of the most demanding projects of ours, and is still around but busy with his academic career. Right now we'd need somebody to pull the strings together and bind his project, with Zoran's 2007 project, into the Holy Grail of a patent- free control points generator. Out of five 2008 students. Well, there was a sixth, together with VLC, but he desisted because he got a full time job. We hope to catch up on that project with León who is applying to VLC this year. I rather give one of the slots available to a deserving student - to somebody like Lukáš who was too young for GSoC 2007 and became a frequent contributor and committer without expecting us to be accepted as a GSoC 2008 mentoring organization and without expecting to be selected. Or to one of the students who have shown interest, passion, curiosity and humility (Dev, Irena, Joe, Yulia, and please forgive me if I forgot somebody of those who joined this mailing list in the last week). And I rather give a slot back to Google for allocation to a more deserving student at another project, than waste Google's money and the time of my fellow mentors on somebody who does not seem mature enough in my judgment. Wow, that was a long email! I felt angry when I started the reply. I feel better now. Should I hit the "send" button? I think so. I am still inclined to black-list you, but I may be wrong. Maybe you will see what in your attitude is incompatible with this community? Feel free to come back any time you want, the door is not closed. In the meantime I share this exchange from our mailing list, conveniently stored at <http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/browse_thread/thread/ e02061a...> with the other mentoring organization. Just that they know who they are dealing with in case you apply there too. Yuv

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Re: [xwiki-devs] devs Digest, Vol 21, Issue 74
by mafaz hassan 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi, Ludovic and Udai.thank you for your immediate response. Cheers Mafaz. Mafaz Hassan Under Graduate Department of Computer Science and Engineering University Of Moratuwa Srilanka

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[xwiki-devs] Help me : GCoS
by apurv gupta 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Dear, To introduce myself, I am Apurv Gupta, a student from ISM University, INDIA. I was browsing project ideas for GCoS and i found XWiki.org. Lots of projects here seems interesting to me specially- - Import from other popular blogging platforms - Google Docs Integration - Google Gadget and OpenSocial Integration - Survey Application - XWiki Jabber, Google Talk, Skype Integration - Calendar application I am a .net developer for last 3 years, working on ASP.net. I have good knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, APIs, XML, DOM and SQL. I also have working knowledge of JAVA and PHP. This time I have no idea about XWiki API but in a couple of days I can learn them. I request to help me how to decide a project that suits me best. All the application listed above fascinate me and at this time I am able to complete any of them stand alone, but as i said i don't have idea to integrate them with XWiki. I know I am capable of doing these project, what all I need is your precious guidance and motivation. I appreciate your time taken to read this mail. Looking for a response. sincerely, -- Apurv Gupta Indian School of Mines University

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Re: [xwiki-devs] devs Digest, Vol 21, Issue 73
by mafaz hassan 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi, I am interested in the GSoc Project New XEclipse Navigator.I tried to download the source code for XEclipse from the location below. https://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xwiki-extensions/xwiki-eclipse/trunk. But i'm getting an error message saying the URL is not valid.Can someone suggest me a location to download the complete source code of XEclipse? Thank you. Regards Mafaz

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