RE: [ve-dev] adding new layout manager

[Rich Kulp <richkulp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Howard, Dave,

You can look at sort of the way I did.
If you look at Eclipse itself and ask how do you contribute an action,
that should be asked on the newsgroup and not the mailing list. If you
wanted to discuss how to change how actions are contributed in Eclipse
and what it should be changed to, that would be discussed in the mailing
list. This was asking how to contribute a layout manager to the VE. I can
see it is confusing at the moment because we don't have a set of documents
on how to extend the VE. 

Typically mailing lists are used for
developing the project itself, such as discussions on how we should change
the VE itself to do something, not how to hook into it or extend it. Though
this also can be stretched to include someone who is making a large major
extension, which we have done in the past. So it can be murky. But the
general rule is to ask on the newsgroup first if it is not clearly discussing
the changing of VE code itself. If we mutually decide it is larger than
the newsgroup we can redirect the discussion to the mailing list.

Also discussing extensions on the newsgroups
has a great advantage in that others can see the discussion and so can
learn how to extend it themselves. The mailing list is a much smaller world
and its focus is different.

Thanks,
Rich

"Howard, Jeffery" <Jeff.Howard@xxxxxxxxxx>
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10/07/2004 04:55 PM

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You understood correctly.

I was scratching my head earlier wondering how this was not a developer
issue  :-)

Looks like the thread suggested by Rich answered most of my questions though.

Thanks!


-----Original Message-----
From: ve-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ve-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of David J. Orme
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 11:48 AM
To: ve-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ve-dev] adding new layout manager


On Thursday 07 October 2004 11:39 am, Rich Kulp wrote:
> Howard,
> Also, this mailing list is for the developers of the VE. Please ask
> questions on usage in the newsgroup.

We get a ton of VE usage questions here on the developer list, so we tend
to 
be pretty quick about firing off the standard "use the newsgroup"
message, 
and I think that's what Rich did here.

But If I'm understanding your question correctly, you're asking about how
to 
add a feature to VE--support for a new layout manager.  That seems
like a VE 
development question to me, so from my vantage-point, it's fair game to
talk 
about that on the list here.  I'm sorry for the confusion.

That said, Rich pointed out an excellent thread about your question that
happened to occur on the newsgroup, and I suggest reading that before posting
further questions.  After you've done that, we'll be happy to help
you out 
here.  :-)

Warmest Regards,

Dave Orme
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Eclipse Visual Editor Project lead
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