"Andrew Gillett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11 -0500
David Kings question, "Is this project dead?", got me thinking about the state of the DynAPI project.
It's sad, disappointing, and so on, regarding my own level of ability and what I didn't do with it. I could go on beating myself up about personal reasons about what holds me back when I could have been contributing. Anyways, if this project still has a reaon to be alive, then I want to see it stay alive and do what I can to that end.
I've been using DynAPI for nearly two years now to build a rather complex internal web application. To implement this project in straight HTML & JavaScript would almost certainly have ended in failure without a library like DynAPI. So I have a real stake in seeing the project survive.
I think what used to be fun, was to have demonstrations from other people that show the amazing things that can be done, with some kind of interactive application, with the full documentation. Or even just one or two little things, and how to combine them in differnt ways.
My purpose with this post is to see how much interest there is in possibly reviving the project.
I am somewhat interested. I've been in a personal rut for so long that I can't get much interested in anything, or stay interested in one thing for very long. One of the many things I am disappointed with myself.
If there there are people out there who are willing to put their hand up to contribute to DynAPI, perhaps we could work towards getting a final Release 3 out. Some of the things this would involve would include getting admin access to the SourceForge project, updating the web site, writing more documentation, and testing the existing code base.
Anyone interested?
If I have any hope of doing anything meaningful, I'll need to identify specific tasks, and break it up into small bits of work, and set a specific 1-2 hour block time each day to work, wether I feel like it or not. Of course I could do more if motivated.
In any case, I've always been good for submitting to CVS those small patches to test and fix typos here and there. Andrew, I think you submitted most of them. ;-) And I did already step up to fix the PHP error of the original poster. I had even asked about that error several weeks before the poster but got no response.
I still have a rough idea of all the "unfixed" things in the DynAPI. This is off the top of my head. I'd have to search the archives for better details.
* code compression, something about it's relation to the "p." naming convention
* PHP/Perl SODA/IOElement
* Mac OSX issues?
* Linux/Konqueror issues?
* Windows IE6/Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape/Opera issues (various)
* Review and integration of Raymod Irving's 2004-05-27 release.
* API and widget documentation.
* Web site could be updated (help content, SF-specific stuff, etc.).
* cross-browser text field autocomplete
* Admin issues?
Hey, someone make me an admin and I'll take care of that boring stuff. ;-) Perhaps time to lock down the CVS access, restrict access or remove entirely past contributors who I've never seen email on this list in the past 3 years, or really in the past 6 months. Clean up the CVS (remove that typo-module). Send out nag messages to people (hey, how's that code coming along?). Monkey around with the site. Field bug andpatch submissions and try to find someone to take care of it. Announce releases, set up the file release system. Err, whatever else the SF admin does.
Leif
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