On Monday 20 July 2009, Lixus Zoran wrote: Hi Lixus, there is a good description at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/viking/index.php?title=Using_git_to_hack_on_and_contribute_to_Viking it's a bit hidden in the new wiki. I think this should be moved 'toplevel'.
Since yesterday, I have an account (didn't try yet) to edit the viki since I will probably not find the time to edit code. I guess it's is much easier to contibute via documentation.... alex > Hi Guilhem, > > > As you can see, I have difficulties to spend time on viking. > > First of all thanks for all your work on viking, I use it a lot! > > I think to get more coders to work on viking it's very important > to get the documentation, in this case the wiki cleaned up. > Please make sure that edits are allowed in the new wiki and > lets remove the old wiki as soon as possible. > > Viking claims to be an "GPS data editor" but it's more a Viewer, > what i really miss is: > > * allow moving/draging points of gpx tracks around > > * allow adding of trackpoints in exsiting tracks like in josm: > you can drag the middle of a section between two nodes/gpspoints to > simply create a new node/point > > * simple dialog to allow different colors for different tracks (who needs > background colors for a track ?) > > nice to have would be: > > * smooth zooming like on maps.google.com with the javascript api. > (not sure if that is possible in viking) > > * rocket view like on map24.com > > > I would love to help but unfortunately I am not able to code c > and the below sounds complicated to me, can somebody probably create > a documentation on the wiki to show by example how this works ? > > > The most long job is to collect patches, create commits (with correct > > author) and merge them. I suggest that anybody interested in joining > > this effort to: > > - open a public repo on GitHub (or anywhere else hosting Git), > > - walk on the mailing-list and issue tracker to collect patches or bugs, > > - create as many topic branches as issue, > > - send pull requests when branches are ready (patch applied, tested > > and ChangeLog modified). > > - finally, remove the merged topic branches. > > Lixus > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > Viking-devel mailing list > Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel > Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/
