Re: [ide4edu-dev] Setting up a new developer help wiki area

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for doing this.

Wayne

Miles Billsman wrote:
> Great idea Cory.
>
> I was going to suggest something similar as it has only really struck 
> me in the last month that a lot of things can be done through the 
> plugin.xml file as you have mentioned on the wiki page. If possible, I 
> would have liked this to have known more about this earlier.
>
> I remember when we started , Wayne asked if we could note any things 
> that would help us get up to speed faster on Eclipse development. The 
> couple of things that I can think of are:
>
> 1. Distinguishing between an RCP app and a plugin. Especially with 
> regards to the out of date RCP app on the wiki page vs. the plugins 
> that you download when you load up the team project set. Since I had 
> no experience with RCP or plugins, I found it confusing trying to 
> figure out how these two things fit together.
>
> 2. I think I would have been more productive in the first half if I 
> had been leveraging the capabilities available through the plugin.xml 
> file. Perhaps new developers on this project should start by doing a 
> couple weeks of tutorials (especially ones where they have to play 
> with the plugin.xml) so that they get a good mental model of how the 
> framework is meant to work. I found myself using the information at 
> http://www.vogella.de/articles/RichClientPlatform/article.html a fair 
> bit. I’ll put that link up on the page Cory has set up.
>
> Cheers, Miles
>
> *From:* ide4edu-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:ide4edu-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Cory Matheson
> *Sent:* Friday, April 02, 2010 5:04 PM
> *To:* Eclipse IDE for Education
> *Subject:* [ide4edu-dev] Setting up a new developer help wiki area
>
> Hello,
>
> I've decided to go ahead and setup an area on the wiki where we can 
> put general knowledge and useful tidbits of information to assist any 
> new developers (aka next term UCOSP) with getting up to speed with the 
> project (quicker if possible).
>
> I've already started some work on it, and the URL is here:
>
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_IDE_for_Education/New_Developers
>
>
> A couple more ideas I'm considering adding are:
> - A little blurb about the mailing list, and setting up BugZilla to 
> email you updates.
> - A rough outline of the different plugins we have, and the code 
> within them, their purpose, etc.
> - A quick overview of the structure of an RCP app (to the best of my 
> knowledge..) and some Eclipse conventions like IWorkspace vs. 
> Workspace, internal packages that we should try to avoid, and a couple 
> useful classes that have proven invaluable during development, etc. etc..
>
> Anyone got any additional ideas on things to add? My hope is that the 
> wiki can be updated with new information and links as time goes on.
>
> Cory.
>
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