Re: [xwiki-devs] Status of GSoC project "Auto-completion in content editors"

Hi James, First of all, I hope you did well on your exams. On 06/25/2011 10:02 AM, 许凌志(Jamesxu) wrote: It's good that you started committing but I'm not happy with what I've seen so far and more importantly I'm not happy with your way of working. I see these issues: * you don't communicate enough about what you are doing * you don't involve the community in the architecture/design decisions * you tend to code in a depth-first style, meaning that you go too early into unimportant details. You should layout the skeleton first and then put flesh on it. * you don't review your diff before committing In order to fix this I would like to establish some rules: (1) At the beginning of each week (Monday) you send a mail to this mailing list saying what you plan to work on during that week. (2) At the end of the week you send another mail saying what you managed to do and what you didn't. (3) When you take an important design decision you send a mail describing the problem, listing the possible solutions, saying what solution you prefer and asking for opinions. (4) Before committing you review your diff and describe all changes in the commit log. If changes are not related then split the commit. ----- Regarding your last commits, the way suggestions are displayed is not important at this point. You should focus first on: (A) Detect the auto-complete context based on the caret position. You don't have to display anything for a start. You can simply log the context in the Firebug console. (B) Get the list of suggestions based on the current context. Again, you don't have to display them for a start. Simply log them in the Firebug console. (C) Compute the pixel-based position where the suggestion list would be displayed based on caret character-based position. (D) Display the list of suggestions. As you can see, you started with (D) which is IMO the least important. You should not have to deal with CSS until you have everything working. Thanks, Marius