19 Mar
2009
19 Mar
'09
5:33 a.m.
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.
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.
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.
[1] http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhh6gcfm_29cjk88fj8&hl=en
[2] http://sci-flex.org/
Thanks in advance
Harsha
20 Mar
20 Mar
4:09 p.m.
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/
9:06 p.m.
Hi sergiu
Thanks a lot for your information. Now i am reading the document u specified
and later will touch you upon any issues.
Thanks
Harsha
21 Mar
21 Mar
9:05 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Harsha Halgaswatta <
harsha.halgaswatta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi sergiu
I did go through most of the stuff relating to what you already
specified. It seems interesting that i inspired myself by mining deep into
those. In point of a photo album it is pretty important to maintain more
information relating to photos than it used to be along with the old
version. In addition to what is mentioned it would be possible to add these
features as well.
1) Commenting upon photos
2) Add description relating to photos
3) Image cropping feature to select what portion need to remain in
the album etc.
4) Scaling photos as user wish
5) Tagging feature around photos (Ajax based)
So i think in point of Xwiki it would better to have those features too.
So i am glad to know what you think on this.
Thanking you
Harsha
9:30 a.m.
Harsha Halgaswatta wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Harsha Halgaswatta
<
harsha.halgaswatta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This should be done using the existing XWiki comment mechanism, if
possible. We tend to make applications as reusable as possible, so that
we don't have to duplicate functionality between different features.
Hi sergiu
I did go through most of the stuff relating to what you already
specified. It seems interesting that i inspired myself by mining deep into
those. In point of a photo album it is pretty important to maintain more
information relating to photos than it used to be along with the old
version. In addition to what is mentioned it would be possible to add these
features as well.
1) Commenting upon photos 2) Add description relating to photos
Yes, this is a must.
3) Image cropping feature to select what
portion need to remain in
the album etc.
4) Scaling photos as user wish
These will require a Java part as well, since currently there's no
public API for this. An image processing plugin would be good for other
purposes as well. You should start with this, so that it can be used by
other parts of XWiki (the attachment section, the WYSIWYG editor).
5) Tagging feature around photos (Ajax based)
This could also be done using (and enhancing) the existing tagging feature.
So i think in point of Xwiki it would better to
have those features too.
So i am glad to know what you think on this.
I agree with these features. I'm sure that there are many other things
that could be done, but the important thing is to have an application
that works well with few features at the beginning, and which is easy to
extend afterwards, meaning that after the base is polished, you can add
features one by one, with little effort.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
31 Mar
31 Mar
4:35 a.m.
New subject: [xwiki-devs] [Gsoc-2009] Willing to Contribute Xwiki in Gsoc 2009
Hi
Now i have gone through many tutorials and documents and obtained a good
picture of xwiki photo album over existing old photo album. I saw that the
commenting features and some other features are very basic and even don't
comply with the expected flow.
Now i am in the process of making some mockups while thinking the class
level interaction just to illustrate you the flow of the photo album along
with their functionalities.
After going through the xwiki way i feel it would better create a class
while creating a new album and attach it to the page. Then anyone who
creates an album would gain the reference (instance) of that class. This
class would consist of the functionalities that are possible with the newly
created album.Consequently the front end would invoke underlying logics as
they suppose to gain the functionality out of the class. Perhaps i may need
two or three classes accordingly (one class may be too big etc). What do
you think ?
Other than that Would you please let me know where the xwiki commenting
features and tagging features retain, From where i would learn it. And also
in some situations i may need to involve with Ajax based scenarios
(maintaining privacy information , tagging features etc). How Ajax is used
in xwiki , would i free to use any Ajax library or what else.
I hope to present you the mockups of the photo album today evening or
tomorrow.
Thanking you.
Harsha
7:15 p.m.
New subject: [xwiki-devs] [Gsoc-2009] Willing to Contribute Xwiki in Gsoc 2009
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Harsha Halgaswatta <
harsha.halgaswatta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
Now i have gone through many tutorials and documents and obtained a good
picture of xwiki photo album over existing old photo album. I saw that the
commenting features and some other features are very basic and even don't
comply with the expected flow.
Now i am in the process of making some mockups while thinking the class
level interaction just to illustrate you the flow of the photo album along
with their functionalities.
After going through the xwiki way i feel it would better create a class
while creating a new album and attach it to the page. Then anyone who
creates an album would gain the reference (instance) of that class. This
class would consist of the functionalities that are possible with the newly
created album.Consequently the front end would invoke underlying logics as
they suppose to gain the functionality out of the class. Perhaps i may need
two or three classes accordingly (one class may be too big etc). What do
you think ?
Other than that Would you please let me know where the xwiki commenting
features and tagging features retain, From where i would learn it. And also
in some situations i may need to involve with Ajax based scenarios
(maintaining privacy information , tagging features etc). How Ajax is used
in xwiki , would i free to use any Ajax library or what else.
Adding something : Commenting features are ok , i just went through it.
It's pretty cool
It mentions the UI should be Ajax based and should also be
functional in browsers without JavaScript. In that case would i have to
implement the same scenarios in two ways ? . I mean if i use Ajax libraries
for a function it works on javascript enabled browsers, if not it fails.
Then the functionality should be preserved without javascript using another
techniques. is there a specific library or method in Xwiki to handle those
kind of scenarios.
I hope to present you the mockups of the photo album today evening or
tomorrow.
Thanking you.
Harsha
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