I doubt anyone is against those, just need to be done :) On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:57 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I’ve spent 3 days at Devoxx FR 2015 and I’ve seen interesting things. I have > some ideas on how we could improve Developer Onboarding for XWiki. > > Idea 1: Eclipse Oomph > ===================== > > This tool will allow us to ease developed onboarding a lot by providing our > "flavor" of Eclipse with preinstalled list of plugins, bound Git repos, > automatically checking out projects, setting our XWiki code styles and more. > See https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Installer > > It's going to be available in Eclipse Mars. See also this video: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QlSosecEUo&list=UUej18QqbZDxuYxyERPgs2Fw
My only question would be: how easy is it to maintain that ? Building pre configured packages of Eclipse is possible since a long time with yoxos (and some XWiki distributions have been made a long time ago) but it was pretty quickly outdated. The only reason why xwiki-debug-eclipse project is up to date is because I'm using it but it would not be the same here, we don't spend out time reinstalling Eclipse. > > Idea 2: Codenvy > =============== > > Codenvy is an online IDE that runs in your browser and it provides not only > an editor but also auto completion, syntax highlighting, debugging and a lot > more. Especially it provides the ability to select project types to generate > projet skeletons and ability to deploy your code. See https://codenvy.com/ > > Thus we can imagine writing several extensions for it that would allow any > contributor to very quickly get an environment to develop an XWiki extension: > * We could provide 1 or 2 project templates, one for a simple XAR module for > example and one for developing some XWiki components > * We could also provide a deployment target (and even a docker VM) so that > once the contributor has made code changes, he can deploy them into a running > XWiki directly from his browser in Codenvy and test his code. > > I feel that it’s perfectly well adapted to the occasional contributor use > case. No environment to setup. Just a few clicks and you’re ready to patch > XWiki or one of its extensions, test it and submit a pull request (note that > the PR can be submitted directly from within the IDE without anything to set > up on your machine! I’ve seen a demo of this in a session at Devoxx). > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
