Hi all,
Marius, Thank you for pointing out that the mobile news application is not within the scope of XWiki for GSoC. I will come up with an idea within the scope as you have instructed. Caty, Thank you for directing me to the mobile application that is being developed for XWiki. I went through the links you provided and read about the design proposal and its proposed features in 3 tiers explained by Ludovic. [1] I forked the code from github[2] and used only the www directory and created the application using Cordova. I installed it on my Android phone to see its existing features. I could run the application on my device successfully and I tried to connect to a cloud. I could not figure out how it can be connected to a particular XWiki instance. Can someone please tell me how the application can be connected to a particular instance. Is there a test cloud that can be used to test the application? I would like to contribute to this application by implementing some of the features that are listed in the design proposal for the mobile client. What features will be integrated in the next release of the application? I would like to know if it possible for me to take this as a GSoC project for GSoC 2013. >From the Ideas page, the idea “Improve the messaging feature” captured my attention and I would like to look more in to that and to know more about the idea if mobile application feature development is not possible to be taken up as a GSoC project. I appreciate your advice on the project. Thank you in advance. [1] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/MobileClient [2] https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/mobile-standardxwikiclient On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > There is some work done in the mobile direction that you can check out > "Mobile XWiki Client and Mobile Skin repositories on xwiki-contrib" > http://markmail.org/thread/ytujvmshwdeun7kv > "New version of the Mobile App > Code<http://markmail.org/message/htfs3bqtj2tdpfnf>" > http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/htfs3bqtj2tdpfnf > > If you really like the mobile area you can check out what is currently done > and adapt your proposal according to it. Then the proposal will be review > and see if we can find a matching mentor for it. > > Thanks, > Caty > > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am Buddhiprabha Erabadda, a final year undergraduate from the > > Department > > > of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I have > been > > > studying about XWiki from few days now and I have > > > downloaded the xwiki-enterprise-jetty-hsqldb-4.5.3.zip [1] and run it > on > > my > > > Windows machine to understand the client side of XWiki. Now I am > getting > > > familiar with the code base, referring to various documentation. [2] > > > > > > After going through XWiki site and particularly News and Blog [3], I > > > decided to come up with a new idea for GSoC 2013 for XWiki. My idea is > to > > > develop a mobile news application for XWiki. This will enable users to > > view > > > news about posts, new releases, fixes, etc through the application. In > > > particular, my proposed application will contain the following. > > > > > > > > > - News will be shown as a thumbnail list: it will contain an image > of > > > the author of the news item or an image related to the news item, a > > title > > > for the news item, and a brief description about the news item. > > > - When a user clicks on the news item, user will be directed to a > page > > > with full information regarding that particular news. > > > > > > > > > This application can have following features. > > > > > > > > > - The user can filter news: for example Latest news, news by a > > specific > > > author, news from a particular period, etc. > > > - Add favourite news: this will enable the user to mark his/her > > favorite > > > items and there by access them at a later point of time. > > > - Enable adding comments from the application > > > > > > > > > This is the basic outline of my proposed mobile application. I expect > to > > > implement this as a PhoneGap application. Using PhoneGap to develop the > > > application will enable it to be run on multiple platforms, including > > > Android, iOS, etc. The application will be beneficial for everyone > > > including users and developers of XWiki because it will enable them to > be > > > updated on the go using a mobile application. > > > > > > > > I would like to know your opinion on the idea of having the proposed > > mobile > > > news application. Please add to list of features if you have better or > > new > > > ideas for them. > > > > I'm glad that XWiki has caught your attention but I don't think your > > proposal fits into our target for GSoC because: > > > > (1) It's not related to the XWiki product. If your application can get > > the news from xwiki.org then it can get them from other sites as well. > > Even if you take the data (using REST) from the blog structure > > (objects) that is specific to XWiki, that is just a small part, the > > rest of the application (display and interaction) would still be > > generic. I'd rather see the XWiki news / blog posts integrated in an > > existing news application. > > > > (2) The blog application already supports 'exporting' the blog posts / > > news in RSS format, which can be used in any RSS aggregator, and there > > are mobile news aggregator applications that can read RSS. > > > > I hope this won't discourage you. If none of the listed > > http://gsoc.xwiki.org project ideas attract you then you can make your > > own proposal but it must be related to the XWiki product. > > > > Thanks, > > Marius > > > > > > > > I participated for GSoC 2012 under DocBook organization for the project > > > “DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs” and successfully completed my > > > project. [4] [5] I would like to contribute to XWiki in GSoC 2013 and I > > > hope to know your idea about my proposed mobile application. Thank you > in > > > advance. > > > > > > [1] http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download > > > > > > [2] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome > > > > > > [3] http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/News > > > > > > [4] > > > > > > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/buddhiprabha/15001 > > > > > > [5] > > > > > > https://docbook.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/docbook/branches/gsoc-2012/roundtrip2 > > > > > > > > > -- > > > *Buddhiprabha Erabadda* > > > *Department of Computer Science and Engineering* > > > *University of Moratuwa* > > > _______________________________________________ > > > devs mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- *Buddhiprabha Erabadda* *Department of Computer Science and Engineering* *University of Moratuwa* _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
