Re: [xwiki-devs] [GSoC] Pencils down, submit your evaluations to Google, and your status to the XWiki Community
Hello Sergiu, friends, First of all, thank you once again for this wonderful opportunity to work with the xwiki team. It has been a learning experience that will no doubt change my future in programming and open source. Like Sasinda said, all the support and help throughout the project have been enormous. I think all of us GSOC students will agree that it was one of the most interesting and useful summer we ever had. Thank you for the reminders to submit the code and evaluation. The XWiki team made a great impression, and in my opinion, a very good face for the open source community. I hope to be able to contribute more and continue support/development on the skin as it comes up. Like Sasinda I will definitely try to come back in my free time Status: The overall design and implementation goals of the skin is, in my opinion, achieved (note: as planned we did not use foundation as the base of our skin as the GSOC proposal stated). The skin works on a plethora of browsers (tested in ie7-9, opera, ffx, chrome, and safari. devices: g2x, nokia 710, nexus7, bb curve) and responds to size changes. Due to the limitation of some browser, there will be slight deviations, but none should impact the function of the skins. There are some minor differences than those of the design plan. For example the apps are not skinned as they were designed in the design plans. After working on the skin, I did not think that was priority since there are so many apps, that it wouldn't be the most fruitful use of the gsoc time to skin one. I'll try to work on these in my free time. The idea to create a 2nd configuration page for the skin was scraped since it was deemed to not be efficient. In general, the skin is usable and "complete". I think to truly complete the skin, we would need users to try and use the skins since I did not have the time, and I think XWiki is too expansive for me to test every use case scenario anyway. Future explorations would be how to make the skin functions more efficient. Thank you once again for the opportunity, do let me know of anything you would like me to do. Thanks Asiri for dropping by and dropping us the hint ahaha. Thank you for all those involved in making GSOC happen, from Caty, Eduard, Sergiu, Vincent, Thomas and anyone who I missed. Finally, last but not least, Thank you especially to Jerome, for mentoring me through out this time. Best, Jonathan Solichin
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your nice words about XWiki's community. In addition to the code submission, I would like you create an extension page for the skin on extensions.xwiki.org, so that all XWiki users can download it and play with it or use it easily. You can get inspiration from Lyrebird's page ( http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Lyrebird+Skin) for example. Important point is to have the additional installation notes, since your skin is packaged as a zip intended for filesystem use. Hop on IRC if you need help creating the page. Looking forward your next contributions ;) Have fun, Jerome On 08/21/2012 08:43 PM, Jonathan Solichin wrote:
Hello Sergiu, friends,
First of all, thank you once again for this wonderful opportunity to work with the xwiki team. It has been a learning experience that will no doubt change my future in programming and open source. Like Sasinda said, all the support and help throughout the project have been enormous. I think all of us GSOC students will agree that it was one of the most interesting and useful summer we ever had.
Thank you for the reminders to submit the code and evaluation.
The XWiki team made a great impression, and in my opinion, a very good face for the open source community. I hope to be able to contribute more and continue support/development on the skin as it comes up. Like Sasinda I will definitely try to come back in my free time
Status: The overall design and implementation goals of the skin is, in my opinion, achieved (note: as planned we did not use foundation as the base of our skin as the GSOC proposal stated). The skin works on a plethora of browsers (tested in ie7-9, opera, ffx, chrome, and safari. devices: g2x, nokia 710, nexus7, bb curve) and responds to size changes. Due to the limitation of some browser, there will be slight deviations, but none should impact the function of the skins.
There are some minor differences than those of the design plan. For example the apps are not skinned as they were designed in the design plans. After working on the skin, I did not think that was priority since there are so many apps, that it wouldn't be the most fruitful use of the gsoc time to skin one. I'll try to work on these in my free time. The idea to create a 2nd configuration page for the skin was scraped since it was deemed to not be efficient.
In general, the skin is usable and "complete". I think to truly complete the skin, we would need users to try and use the skins since I did not have the time, and I think XWiki is too expansive for me to test every use case scenario anyway. Future explorations would be how to make the skin functions more efficient.
Thank you once again for the opportunity, do let me know of anything you would like me to do. Thanks Asiri for dropping by and dropping us the hint ahaha. Thank you for all those involved in making GSOC happen, from Caty, Eduard, Sergiu, Vincent, Thomas and anyone who I missed. Finally, last but not least, Thank you especially to Jerome, for mentoring me through out this time.
Best, Jonathan Solichin _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
-- Peace, ---Jerome
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for kind words. I agree with Jerome that in order for your work to be really useful it would be great to make it available on extensions.xwiki.org so that users can find it and use it and thus provide feedback. Would you be able to do this? Thanks -Vincent On Aug 21, 2012, at 8:43 PM, Jonathan Solichin <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Sergiu, friends,
First of all, thank you once again for this wonderful opportunity to work with the xwiki team. It has been a learning experience that will no doubt change my future in programming and open source. Like Sasinda said, all the support and help throughout the project have been enormous. I think all of us GSOC students will agree that it was one of the most interesting and useful summer we ever had.
Thank you for the reminders to submit the code and evaluation.
The XWiki team made a great impression, and in my opinion, a very good face for the open source community. I hope to be able to contribute more and continue support/development on the skin as it comes up. Like Sasinda I will definitely try to come back in my free time
Status: The overall design and implementation goals of the skin is, in my opinion, achieved (note: as planned we did not use foundation as the base of our skin as the GSOC proposal stated). The skin works on a plethora of browsers (tested in ie7-9, opera, ffx, chrome, and safari. devices: g2x, nokia 710, nexus7, bb curve) and responds to size changes. Due to the limitation of some browser, there will be slight deviations, but none should impact the function of the skins.
There are some minor differences than those of the design plan. For example the apps are not skinned as they were designed in the design plans. After working on the skin, I did not think that was priority since there are so many apps, that it wouldn't be the most fruitful use of the gsoc time to skin one. I'll try to work on these in my free time. The idea to create a 2nd configuration page for the skin was scraped since it was deemed to not be efficient.
In general, the skin is usable and "complete". I think to truly complete the skin, we would need users to try and use the skins since I did not have the time, and I think XWiki is too expansive for me to test every use case scenario anyway. Future explorations would be how to make the skin functions more efficient.
Thank you once again for the opportunity, do let me know of anything you would like me to do. Thanks Asiri for dropping by and dropping us the hint ahaha. Thank you for all those involved in making GSOC happen, from Caty, Eduard, Sergiu, Vincent, Thomas and anyone who I missed. Finally, last but not least, Thank you especially to Jerome, for mentoring me through out this time.
Best, Jonathan Solichin _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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