Re: [orion-dev] Potential contributions for UCOSP student

[Ken Walker <Ken_Walker@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Welcome Cameron!

The Git REST command line might be interesting however we have some students in Poland working on some Git work for our Node server - likely not overlapped but maybe your focus elsewhere would be good.
Working on the Tasks might be a good approach and containable within the timeframe.

One item we were talking about last week was that the VMWare developers are utilizing the Orion editor in a stand alone desktop editor called Scripted.  Scripted contains some of the same content assist code as Orion (they contributed back many features to Orion) but they have a hook to the Node file system to introspect over the files 'close' to the file you're editing to provide better content assist including understanding Node module support.  It would be a very interesting task to look at how to utilize this in our Node.js version of Orion.  Currently we do not do this, we just have the context of the file you are editing.

You can see an example of this module support for content assist here:  http://blog.cloudfoundry.org/2012/10/11/using-the-new-scripted-_javascript_-editor-for-node-js-development/

The work would be adapting their content assist code to use our file system API on node.

I'm not sure this could be completely completed in the time frame you mention so perhaps Andy or Andrew could comment on how hard this task might be.

All the scripted source is available in the open as well (https://github.com/scripted-editor/scripted)

Any help on an area of Orion is welcome. Others on the list may have some suggestions as well.

Ken Walker
Co-Lead Eclipse Orion Project | Tools for the Web, On the Web
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Cameron Mann ---2013/01/20 02:05:51 PM---Hi all, I'm a participant in the UCOSP (http://ucosp.ca/) program being mentored by

From:	Cameron Mann <cpmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date:	2013/01/20 02:05 PM
Subject:	[orion-dev] Potential contributions for UCOSP student
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Hi all,

I'm a participant in the UCOSP (http://ucosp.ca/) program being mentored by Andrew Ross and I was interested in contributing to Orion.  I'll be doing ~8 hours of work per week until early April and I wanted to get some feedback on what could be a feasible contribution.  I've been browsing the bug tracker and found a couple areas that were interesting to me as potential options.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=372119
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=361909
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=366722

With regards to the last one there it seems like there's a number of tickets related to improving tasks so I'd also be open to any of those or some combination thereof.  Since I'm unfamiliar with the project I'm basically interested in figuring out which of these choices would be reasonable (or most reasonable) for a term project.  I've got a decent amount of experience with Java through school though I have almost none with _javascript_ so I'd have to pick that up as I go.

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