Hi, Jack, and welcome to XWiki! It`s great to see your interest and enthusiasm!
As far as I can see, both projects you are interested in are mainly UI/application projects, so the existing student guidelines [1] should be a good starting point for you. Basically you need to get acquainted with developing XWiki applications and packaging/publishing them as extensions. This means installing XWiki and using it a bit, understanding the data model, dev practices, web API (velocity, javascript, etc.)... that kind of stuff. Also, remember that you will need to have at least one good (easy/medium) Pull Request for an existing (or even new) jira issue before the student application period ends. Please feel free to ask us specific project-related of XWiki related questions that you come across while going through the online documentation, learning process and even jira issue fixing. We`re here to help along the way. Thanks, Eduard On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 4:38 AM, Jack Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > My name is Jack Zhang, and I’m enrolled to begin my undergraduate studies > this September at Harvard University, where I intend to study Computer > Science. I am currently taking a gap year (time off from academics between > secondary school and university), and at the moment I spend my days working > full-time in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and pretty much the rest of my free > time doing web development at betterworldcollective.com < > http://betterworldcollective.com/>. > > I’ve been wanting to get involved with open source for quite a while now, > and I’d love to spend time this summer contributing to XWiki! I am > comfortable with HTML, CSS3/Bootstrap, JavaScript/jQuery, MySQL, and PHP. > I'm also acquainted with Java OOP. I am particularly excited about two > projects: > > 1. Creating the Blame View UI > 2. Glossary Application > > I understand that both of these projects are still somewhat open-ended, so > I look forward to delving into XWiki’s use cases and exploring Apps Within > Minutes to better formulate some details on the implementation and UI of > either one of these projects. That being said, any pointers or suggestions > are certainly welcome! > > See you all on JIRA :) > > Jack > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
