Sandor Spruit wrote:
Sylvain,
Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Hi folks,
Cocoon is now a mature framework and is more and more used in corporate environments. And more and more people are asking for some tools. Several people also experienced lost projects because Cocoon doesn't have a minimal opensource tooling.
Building an opensource IDE for Cocoon not only requires some Cocoon knowledge, but also some Eclipse plugin development skills.
That's why I'm sending this poll to the whole user and developper community:
> - do you or your company have Eclipse plugin development skills? > - if some opensource project is setup to develop a Cocoon
IDE, would you like to join and invest time and effort?
Hmm. I certainly support the idea, I'd like to join, but it depends on time constraints.
I'm planning on introducing Cocoon, Exist and Eclipse in a 'Contentlab' I'm setting
up for our university curriculum. I would love to have some Cocoon plugins, since
I now have to prepare a workable environment and a Cocoon tutorial myself.
Could you use a reasonably skilled group of student users to test ideas and provide
feedback - or do you already have matured ideas on what the tools should do? UI?
(http://www.informationscience.nl, no comments on the quality of its layout please).
Depending on the focus, there are groups ranging from 10 students/course upto 50.
Well, actually I have more than matured ideas and plan to provide an initial code base *if* I have the feeling me and my company won't be alone in this adventure. I'd like Cocoon to have an opensource tooling, but want it to be community-developed both for social and economical reasons.
Some part of the IDE could make a nice student project, but I do not think all folks
would have the required Java development skills to pick it up quickly. Maybe our
computer science students (different programme) could provide these skills. Let me
know what you think, maybe I can work something out here.
Interesting idea, and yes, Java skills seem to me a basic requirement. Developing new features can certainly be an interesting and motivating student project. However, even if this brings manpower to the project, we also need people with more long-term involvment.
Sylvain
-- Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies http://apache.org/~sylvain http://anyware-tech.com Apache Software Foundation Member Research & Technology Director
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