Re: [platform-swt-dev] Welcome Alexander Kurtakov as a new eclipse.platf

[Silenio Quarti <Silenio_Quarti@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alex and welcome.

Unfortunately, we do not have a New
Contributors page and we would appreciate if you started one.

Here are a couple a things that come
to me in adding to what you have mentioned:

1) Code formatting. We have never been
able to use the Eclipse's code formatter to enforce the same formatting
in the SWT code.  Believe me, we have talked about it at least a couple
of times and decided against. This means that we rely on every committer
to try to keep the formatting the same with the code being changed.

2) Be really careful with the 32/64
bit code pre-processing.  Our automated build and the SWT tools catch
quite a bit of problems, but they miss cases. Unfortunately these cases
can go unnoticed for quite same time. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=390713
for an example.

3) When the code is really odd or is
working around a problem in the underlining toolkit. Add a comment indicating
it  You will see this all over the code, It really helps specially
if you have been around for a long time like SWT is.

Silenio



From:      
 Aleksandar Kurtakov
<akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 "Eclipse Platform
SWT component developers list." <platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>,

Date:      
 09/24/2012 01:36 AM
Subject:    
   Re: [platform-swt-dev]
Welcome Alexander Kurtakov as a        new
       eclipse.platform.swt Committer
Sent by:    
   platform-swt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

---

Thanks everyone,

It's an honour for me. Before doing anything I want to be sure that I would
follow the procedures that SWT committers obey to. Is there some page for
helping newcomers? Things like - first open a bug and refer to it into
commit message, even if you are committer your patch has to be reviewed
by another committer first, etc. If there is no such page(I failed to find
one) I'm volunteering to start such a page with what I know and information
I get as replies. http://wiki.eclipse.org/SWT/NewContributor
sounds good ?
Also are there some things from the 4.3 plan[1] that everyone is expected
to spend time on?
Please reply with anything that comes to your mind.

P.S. I'm on vacation this week so no fast replies.

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/SWT/Plan4.3

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

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