Hi Lavinia, On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:55 PM, lavinia bobonete <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

My name is Lavinia Bobonete and I am now pursuing a Master degree in Computer Science, at Politehnica University of Bucharest.

Great. I'm glad you're interested in the GSoC program and that XWiki has caught your attention.

I have a couple of years experience with Java (both SE and EE) and JavaScript (JavaScript MVC especially), so I think that there shouldn't be any programming barriers.

Sounds good.

I've looked over your proposed projects and there is more than one project that catches my attention: Wiki Collections, Live Notifications, Messaging Feature and Extension Repository. These all correspond to my area of interest. But I have a question:

is there any project with a higher priority in the development of XWiki?

I guess each developer has its own preferences. From your list I'm more attracted by Wiki Collections, but I'm sure Thomas Mortagne would push for Extension Repository and Ludovic Dubost for the other two :) . You can check the feature survey for 2012 (XWiki 4.x) http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/FeatureSurveyResult201204 . I don't know if we have something like that for 2013 (5.x). Vincent?

And secondly: how can I start getting involved?

You should read/scan http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome in order to set up your work environment. You need a GitHub account to start with. You should fork/clone https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform at first. Then you need Maven and an IDE. It should all be written in the documentation. Next you should download XWiki and play a bit with it to understand what it does. We use the jetty+hsqldb zip package for development because it contains everything you need to run XWiki. You can also use http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DebugXEWithEclipse . You should also look in http://jira.xwiki.org for a small bug related to the modules you plan to work on. The will help you understand the code. Of course, you can ask us here or on IRC which modules are involved in a specific GSoC project. Hope this helps. Don't hesitate to ask more questions. Marius

I'm looking forward to hearing from you and being a valuable part of the community, Lavinia Bobonete _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs