On 01/14/2013 11:50 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:21 PM, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote:
On 14 January 2013 20:01, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-development.html
The idea here is to have a dev-focused introduction page that works
along side the similar pages we have for Marketing and QA. This is
the first draft. I already see a few typos, so don't worry about
those. But I am looking for more content.
I like the idea that we have a document like this, a few remarks to content:
- The building guide you refer to is outdated (see first line), and many of
the other building guides are not complete.
Is there a building guide that is more up to date than the one I linked to?
We were just discussing this a day or so ago. The information from the
Developer Snapshot cwiki page toward the bottom:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOO3.4.1
needs to be added to the wiki build info, so the wiki build info is not
complete.
see below for more...
- since not all programmers are fluent in all languages, it would be nice
to have a list of which languages are used where...otherwise it becomes
complicated to pick an "easy task".
Maybe when someone marks an issue as an "easy task" they add a comment
in Bugzilla giving some hints like where to start looking, etc.
- It would also be nice to give a short introduction to debugging, which is
far from easy (again split on languages/tools).
I'd love to have that information, if anyone has a link?
But I think that is the catch-22: Our dev doc is poor, but it takes
volunteer dev time to improve the doc. But we need more volunteers.
And that requires good doc.
So maybe this becomes a bootstrapping process, where we gather
feedback from the initial dev volunteers and use that to improve the
doc.
In any case, I don't have the deep knowledge here. I'm mainly helping
gather it into one place in a consumable form. So improving this will
require help from a veteran developer, either up front, or later after
answering repeated questions on the mailing list.
Regards,
-Rob
Ok, our Altsassian Fisheye instance has been broken for some time. I
don't know what the problem is. I filed an issue some time ago. I need
to get abck in contact with them. Last update was about a week ago.
The link you have goes to a page but then NOTHING really, and it does
not included "trunk". So, I guess you may need to stick with just the
viewvc link:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk
for the time being.
Another link developers may find useful is the Developer’s Guide on the
wiki:
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/OpenOffice.org_Developers_Guide
All in all a good start!
rgds
Jan I
What else should we put here? Any other links? Any other startup tasks?
-Rob
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