Welcome aboard, Sarthak :) -Eduard On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < [email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

Welcome to the community :)

Caty

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Sarthak Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:

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Hi Everyone, I am Sarthak Gupta from India. First of all I want to thank XWiki community for selecting me for GSoC-17 and giving me a priceless opportunity to contribute to this organisation and improve my present skills. I also want to thank all the XWikiers who helped me during the application period for understanding the project as well as the organisation. :)

I have been selected for for the project "*Glossary Application*" under the mentorship of *Vincent Massol* and *Paul Libbrecht*.

Glossary Application <http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/# HGlossaryApplicationbySarthakGupta>

Some more info:

Presently I have only solved one issue ( https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/BLOG-32)on *jira* but will try to solve more during the upcoming period for better understanding of the organisation.

I have already created a design page for the project http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/GlossaryApplication and will be updating it regularly as the project progresses.

Github user name : sarthak-sopho <https://github.com/sarthak-sopho> xwiki.org username : sgc_072 jira username : sgc_072 IRC nick : sgc_072 (also used sgc072 in past)

I am also planning to create a blog regarding my GSoC project in the near future (on one of the popular blogging sites).

I will try to remain active and chatty(*as said by Eduard Moraru* :P) on both IRC and the mailing list in the coming period.

I hope that this will be a good and enjoyable learning experience for me and with your support I will complete this project successfully with flying colours. :D

Thank You Sarthak Gupta

P.S : I am really sorry for the delay in introduction. Due to my end semester examination and travelling to my home, I was not able to introduce myself on time. Now I have summer vacations and a lot of a work to do. :P

Hi Sarthak,

On 9 May 2017, at 12:56, Sarthak Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks Everyone,

I will try to update about my progress every week(Every Monday). I am spending this week mainly learning about basics of Velocity and some more on Java. Meanwhile I am also going through developers guide and looking for issues that I can start with. Also I think I would have to think(and research) about, what would be the requirements that I would need in the initial stage of development of the "Glossary Application”.

Welcome aboard! :) To start with, I’d recommend that you follow the FAQ tutorial at http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial/FAQTutorialMan... Have you done it already? Also you should read a bit on how the xwiki project develops code. All the info is on the dev subwiki at http://dev.xwiki.org Especially: - http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DevelopmentPractices - http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/CodeStyle - http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Testing Let us know when you’ve done all that. You should also pick and try to fix some simple jira issues: https://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?jql=Difficulty%20%3D%20Easy%20and%20resolutio... Let us know on IRC or on this list if you need some help. Please consider using martrix for IRC since it saves history and we can have a conversation even when you’re not connected, see: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Chat Thanks -Vincent

Thanks :)

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]> wrote:

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Welcome Sarthak!

Thanks, Marius

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Sarthak Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:

...

Hi Everyone, I am Sarthak Gupta from India. First of all I want to thank XWiki community for selecting me for GSoC-17 and giving me a priceless opportunity to contribute to this organisation and improve my present skills. I also want to thank all the XWikiers who helped me during the application period for understanding the project as well as the organisation. :)

I have been selected for for the project "*Glossary Application*" under the mentorship of *Vincent Massol* and *Paul Libbrecht*.

Glossary Application <http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/# HGlossaryApplicationbySarthakGupta>

Some more info:

Presently I have only solved one issue ( https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/BLOG-32)on *jira* but will try to solve more during the upcoming period for better understanding of the organisation.

I have already created a design page for the project http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/GlossaryApplication and will be updating it regularly as the project progresses.

Github user name : sarthak-sopho <https://github.com/sarthak-sopho> xwiki.org username : sgc_072 jira username : sgc_072 IRC nick : sgc_072 (also used sgc072 in past)

I am also planning to create a blog regarding my GSoC project in the near future (on one of the popular blogging sites).

I will try to remain active and chatty(*as said by Eduard Moraru* :P) on both IRC and the mailing list in the coming period.

I hope that this will be a good and enjoyable learning experience for me and with your support I will complete this project successfully with flying colours. :D

Thank You Sarthak Gupta

P.S : I am really sorry for the delay in introduction. Due to my end semester examination and travelling to my home, I was not able to introduce myself on time. Now I have summer vacations and a lot of a work to do. :P

Hello Sarthak, so what’s your next steps? It was recommended to endorse an issue. That could be one way to start. But maybe before that, you could create one or two own applications beyond simple tutorials that would empower you with the tricks of page rendering? paul

On 15 May 2017, at 20:45, Sarthak Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Vincent, I am done with the FAQ tutorial. I now have the basic idea that how a page in XWiki is created. Though I am facing some difficulty with the syntax, but I know it will come with time. :) As far as I have understood there are generally two ways to create an application in xwiki. The first one is by simply using AWM and another one is by declaring data xobject(classes), following procedures afterward and writing codes which certainly add more to the application.

I saw some slides by Guillaume Delhumeau about using velocity in XWiki. Those have helped me a lot(Thanks, Guillaume!!).

I went through the following things

- Continuous Integration doc. I understood the technique of Binary Dependency builds. - Coding styles on each of the languages that are used. - Back-end Development Practices: - Component module documentation.(I have to understand it more clearly, maybe later). - Front-end Dev Practices. - Building XWiki from sources.(Looked it in Application period too). - Basic Idea how testing is done. In a nutshell, each and everything is tested at each subsequent stage.

I have already asked most of my small doubts on IRC(some of them were silly :P). New IRC Handle: sarthakg

Thanks

Sarthak Gupta

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 10:11 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

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Hi Sarthak,

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On 9 May 2017, at 12:56, Sarthak Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks Everyone,

I will try to update about my progress every week(Every Monday). I am spending this week mainly learning about basics of Velocity and some more on Java. Meanwhile I am also going through developers guide and looking for issues that I can start with. Also I think I would have to think(and research) about, what would be the requirements that I would need in the initial stage of development of the "Glossary Application”.

Welcome aboard! :)

To start with, I’d recommend that you follow the FAQ tutorial at http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/ FAQTutorial/FAQTutorialManual

Have you done it already?

Also you should read a bit on how the xwiki project develops code. All the info is on the dev subwiki at http://dev.xwiki.org

Especially: - http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DevelopmentPractices - http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/CodeStyle - http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Testing

Let us know when you’ve done all that. You should also pick and try to fix some simple jira issues: https://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?jql=Difficulty%20%3D%20Easy% 20and%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved

Let us know on IRC or on this list if you need some help. Please consider using martrix for IRC since it saves history and we can have a conversation even when you’re not connected, see: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Chat

Thanks -Vincent

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Thanks :)

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]> wrote:

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Welcome Sarthak!

Thanks, Marius

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Sarthak Gupta <

[email protected]>

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wrote:

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Hi Everyone, I am Sarthak Gupta from India. First of all I want to thank XWiki community for selecting me for GSoC-17 and giving me a priceless opportunity to contribute to this organisation and improve my present skills. I also want to thank all the XWikiers who helped me during the application period for understanding the project as well as the organisation. :)

I have been selected for for the project "*Glossary Application*" under the mentorship of *Vincent Massol* and *Paul Libbrecht*.

Glossary Application <http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/# HGlossaryApplicationbySarthakGupta>

Some more info:

Presently I have only solved one issue ( https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/BLOG-32)on *jira* but will try to solve more during the upcoming period for better understanding of the organisation.

I have already created a design page for the project http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/GlossaryApplication and will be updating it regularly as the project progresses.

Github user name : sarthak-sopho <https://github.com/sarthak-sopho> xwiki.org username : sgc_072 jira username : sgc_072 IRC nick : sgc_072 (also used sgc072 in past)

I am also planning to create a blog regarding my GSoC project in the near future (on one of the popular blogging sites).

I will try to remain active and chatty(*as said by Eduard Moraru* :P) on both IRC and the mailing list in the coming period.

I hope that this will be a good and enjoyable learning experience for me and with your support I will complete this project successfully with flying colours. :D

Thank You Sarthak Gupta

P.S : I am really sorry for the delay in introduction. Due to my end semester examination and travelling to my home, I was not able to introduce myself on time. Now I have summer vacations and a lot of a work to do. :P

On 16 May 2017, at 10:41, Sarthak Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Paul,

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:29 AM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> wrote:

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Hello Sarthak,

so what’s your next steps?

It was recommended to endorse an issue. That could be one way to start.

But maybe before that, you could create one or two own applications beyond simple tutorials that would empower you with the tricks of page rendering?

​ I am not able to figure out what type of application should I develop. Could you please provide me with some ideas, so that I am able to form a mini proposal for myself and then work on it. I can come up with some ideas but I don't know if it will take me in the right direction or not.

Yeah I’m not sure exactly what Paul meant… If you were to start developing a small app I’d start with a Glossary app since that’s very simple (for the simple version of it) ;) lol… More seriously you could pick some easy jira issues or start developing the glossary app and regularly post on the devs list what you’re going to do and how you’re going to do it so that we can tell you if you’re going in the right direction or not. When developing an app, please don’t use AWM since that gives a specific L&F and we don’t want that L&F for the apps we develop. You could also start by doing some design mockups and propose them on the list. Thanks! -Vincent

Thanks :) Sarthak ​

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paul

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On 15 May 2017, at 20:45, Sarthak Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Vincent, I am done with the FAQ tutorial. I now have the basic idea that how a page in XWiki is created. Though I am facing some difficulty with the syntax, but I know it will come with time. :) As far as I have understood there are generally two ways to create an application in xwiki. The first one is by simply using AWM and another one is by declaring data xobject(classes), following procedures afterward and writing codes which certainly add more to the application.

I saw some slides by Guillaume Delhumeau about using velocity in XWiki. Those have helped me a lot(Thanks, Guillaume!!).

I went through the following things

- Continuous Integration doc. I understood the technique of Binary Dependency builds. - Coding styles on each of the languages that are used. - Back-end Development Practices: - Component module documentation.(I have to understand it more clearly, maybe later). - Front-end Dev Practices. - Building XWiki from sources.(Looked it in Application period too). - Basic Idea how testing is done. In a nutshell, each and everything is tested at each subsequent stage.

I have already asked most of my small doubts on IRC(some of them were silly :P). New IRC Handle: sarthakg

Thanks

Sarthak Gupta

Hi Sarthak,

On 16 May 2017, at 16:08, Sarthak Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Vincent, So basically I have to propose two designs:

1. The first design will be of how this app will look like when it will work on different XWiki page. I am talking about the UI which includes:

- hover feature when the mouse will hover over a glossary item on a page. - different display of items already present in glossary.

2. The second design will be of the home page of the glossary application where different glossary items will be stored(as mentioned on Design Page <http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/GlossaryApplication>).

I wanted to know if there is a particular way which developers follow to propose design mockups. I mean any particular tool they use to make designs or any convention they follow before designing wrt XWiki?

First you don’t have to propose anything. This is just a recommendation from me. The idea is to show as early as possible to the community what you’re doing or planning to do. It can be in words or in UI. Ofc if you show something visual then it’s much easier for others to visualize what you mean and provide feedback. In general designs are done in HTML/CSS (often inside xwiki pages). You can check examples on http://design.xwiki.org However you can use whatever you’re comfortable with.

Also, if I propose my own design how will it be compatible with different skins and themes in XWiki?

You need to use the CSS classes of XWiki for that (bootstrap) ;) See also http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FrontendResources Thanks -Vincent

Thanks :)

Sarthak Gupta

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

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On 16 May 2017, at 10:41, Sarthak Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Paul,

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:29 AM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> wrote:

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Hello Sarthak,

so what’s your next steps?

It was recommended to endorse an issue. That could be one way to start.

But maybe before that, you could create one or two own applications beyond simple tutorials that would empower you with the tricks of page rendering?

​ I am not able to figure out what type of application should I develop. Could you please provide me with some ideas, so that I am able to form a mini proposal for myself and then work on it. I can come up with some ideas but I don't know if it will take me in the right direction or not.

Yeah I’m not sure exactly what Paul meant… If you were to start developing a small app I’d start with a Glossary app since that’s very simple (for the simple version of it) ;) lol…

More seriously you could pick some easy jira issues or start developing the glossary app and regularly post on the devs list what you’re going to do and how you’re going to do it so that we can tell you if you’re going in the right direction or not.

When developing an app, please don’t use AWM since that gives a specific L&F and we don’t want that L&F for the apps we develop.

You could also start by doing some design mockups and propose them on the list.

Thanks! -Vincent

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Thanks :) Sarthak ​

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paul

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On 15 May 2017, at 20:45, Sarthak Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Vincent, I am done with the FAQ tutorial. I now have the basic idea that how a page in XWiki is created. Though I am facing some difficulty with the

syntax,

...

...

...

but I know it will come with time. :) As far as I have understood there are generally two ways to create an application in xwiki. The first one is by simply using AWM and another one is by declaring data xobject(classes), following procedures afterward and writing codes which certainly add more to the application.

I saw some slides by Guillaume Delhumeau about using velocity in XWiki. Those have helped me a lot(Thanks, Guillaume!!).

I went through the following things

- Continuous Integration doc. I understood the technique of Binary Dependency builds. - Coding styles on each of the languages that are used. - Back-end Development Practices: - Component module documentation.(I have to understand it more clearly, maybe later). - Front-end Dev Practices. - Building XWiki from sources.(Looked it in Application period too). - Basic Idea how testing is done. In a nutshell, each and everything is tested at each subsequent stage.

I have already asked most of my small doubts on IRC(some of them were silly :P). New IRC Handle: sarthakg

Thanks

Sarthak Gupta