Harsha Halgaswatta wrote:
Hi all
I am an undergraduate at University of Moratuwa specializing in the field of Computer Science and Engineering and willing to take part in XWiki during this summer. I participated in Gsoc last year with Sahana community where i involved in implementing a project relating to social networking and i completed it successfully [1] . Where i had to play with photo related works and i extracted more on the methodologies of handling those information.
Hi Harsha, Thanks for you interest in XWiki. Previous GSoC experience is good for your chances of being accepted.
I myself think this project is kind of interesting for me and will be able to contribute you effectively than last years as i am more passionate on FOSS and Gsoc. Further i am really interested in Java projects as most of the projects i have done and experienced are lied on Java.One of them is listed below [2].
Regarding the photo album application i want some more clarifications on migration tool from the old version photo albums. is it kind of extracting features based on the old implementation having their core logics, in new appliaction or just a tool to convert old photo albums to new one with their excisting features. Would you mind clarifying me on this.
The migration is a simple script that reads object from one type and saves the data to a different type. Once you learn the XWiki way of writing applications, you'll see that this is really easy. Reading a tutorial helps a lot: - http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=XWiki - http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial So, short answer, it is a simple data migration tool.
Further regarding the Import Export from any other Wiki , would it be kind of content transferring mechanism among wikis. In that case i can think in terms of providing a link aside to transfer a selected content on one wiki to another etc. I am glad to have more information on this too.
This means being able to convert from MediaWiki to XWiki for example. Each major wiki has the ability to export data in a certain format, either XML pages, or plain text, whatever. There is no standard format for this. The use case is: - I've been a happy WhateverWiki user for 2 years. But I just found out about XWiki, which is way better than my old WhateverWiki - I want to migrate my old wiki to XWiki - I use the export feature of WhateverWiki to get an archive with my old content - I open XWiki and use the ImportFromWhateverWiki feature to automatically have my old data inside my new wiki The project targets exactly this process of reading that archive, creating a page for each archived page, and convert the syntax between the wiki syntax of WhateverWiki to XWiki. Fortunately the syntax conversion is easy to do using our new parsing/rendering engine, which is already able to convert to and from major wiki syntaxes. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/