1) The best way to do this .. is by just doing it! Dive in and don't
give up until it's done! :-) Once you have a somewhat working, well
coded version (doesn't have to be complete or without bugs mind you,
just in style with our project goals: good quality and preferably
readable code:) and you feel your ready to show it to the world. go
and submit a patch in our jira with the .net implementation.
2) Shindig is an apache project so very open ... all contributions are
welcomed with open arms and happiness! So don't ever worry about that,
we'll never refuse from good code that fits our project's goals (and
being language neutral aka supporting shindig in many languages is
indeed part of our goal)
3) As long as you don't mind releasing the code under the apache
license v2, and the quality is good (and you intend to keep supporting
it and help build a community for it), it's very welcome! Once the
patch has been accepted, and you show your ability by your code and
involvement, you can join the committers ranks, get a vote in the
projects direction, etc ... apache works with 'meritocracy' ...
apache.org has a lot of pages explaining this so i won't :)
4) It's not really the 'Shindig .net implementation' until shindig has
accepted it. However no harm in saying "to be a part of shindig" while
working on that :)
5) Don't be afraid to ask questions, we're usually very friendly folk :)
6) Don't forget there's a Java and PHP version, they will often be the
only map you have to figure out what to do and how to do it and in
what order .. while the client facing spec is well documented, the
server side isn't. So get friendly with one of the 2 versions, and
learn how it works internally and use that as either a reference or at-
least a inspiration of what to do
Hope that answers your questions,
-- Chris
On Jun 19, 2008, at 11:52 PM, Michael Ryan (Software Developer) wrote:
What would the ramifications be of starting a .Net (C#) implementation
of OpenSocial... Is calling it say "Shindig .Net" out of the question,
and what is the possibility of having it hosted with the Java and PHP
versions?
I know there is an "OpenSocial" .Net project on CodePlex, but it seem
that hasn't been touched in some time now... I've attempted to
contact
the author on that project, but haven't seen a response yet, will give
it a few more days.
Just wanting some input/advice before I begin down this path...
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