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/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
