Hi Dave, Thanks for the detailed explanation. I will start working on this and come back to you with my progress
Regards! On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:55 PM, Dave Brondsema <d...@brondsema.net> wrote: > On 4/24/18 11:14 AM, Deshani Geethika wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > > > As per GSoC official time-line, from 23rd April to 14th May period is > > considered as "Community Bonding Period". > > > > During this period I would like to finalize my design and separate my > > project into several tickets. Also, I would like to get more familiarized > > with Allura code-base and Allura team. > > > > Could you guide me what would be the best way to start off with. > > > > Regards! > > > > Sounds like good goals for the community bonding period. > > I've added you as a developer on our self-hosted Allura project > https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/ which means you can assign > tickets to > yourself, make new ones, update existing ones, etc. I'd recommend having > many > small incremental tickets (perhaps even smaller pieces of work than you > outlined > in the project proposal), so that its easy to manage them and review > them. And > of course you don't need to make them all right away :) > > To familiarize yourself with Allura, you can read more of the > documentation - > assuming you haven't read it all already ;) https://forge-allura.apache. > org/docs/ > > And working on Allura code itself is best. Find an existing ticket or > anything > you notice that could be made better, and make a fix for it. A really > easy one > that I could suggest is https://forge-allura.apache. > org/p/allura/tickets/1699/ > > I've also noticed that our test suite has failed the past few times: > https://builds.apache.org/blue/organizations/jenkins/Allura/activity It > probably is related to the "Make debug pages and post permalinks work > correctly > when behind a proxy" commit. You could take a look at fixing that if you > want. > Otherwise I will soon. > > Lastly, reviewing other people's work is a good way to get familiar with > the > code and best practices. I will have a fix for > https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/tickets/6353/ coming soon, so > watch out > for that. You won't be able to merge my branch to master, but it can be a > good > way for you to learn from others. And any constructive feedback would be > welcome too, of course. > > > > > -- > Dave Brondsema : d...@brondsema.net > http://www.brondsema.net : personal > http://www.splike.com : programming > <>< > -- *Deshani Geethika* Undergraduate at Department of Computer Science and Engineering Faculty of Engineering - University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/deshanigeethika/> | GitHub <https://github.com/deshanigtk> | Mobile - +94776383034
