[ve-dev] Re: How to be a contributor to the VE project (was Re: VE Quest

[Nick Boldt <nickboldt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Glad it helped!

So, are you planning to contribute something to the VE 1.5 development? 
Or patches on the 1.4 stream?

Just curious,

Nick

Snyman, Marius M wrote:
> 10Q for the Link
>
> I have in the meantime discovered the main culprit for my errors was a dependency on the dependencies tab of plugin.xml.
>
> I had errors because the version of com.ibm.icu on Galileo is 4.0.1 and the expected dependency  was 3.something
>
> All the project now compile successfully.
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Boldt [mailto:nickboldt@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 05 October 2009 10:32 PM
> To: Snyman, Marius M; Discussions people developing code for the Visual Editor project
> Subject: How to be a contributor to the VE project (was Re: VE Question.)
>
> Marius:
>
> To answer your question, I've created a wiki page to capture how best to 
> set up a workspace for building VE (and JEM, since we build that as well).
>
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/VE/Building
>
> Let me know if that helps! (Or if anything's missing.)
>
> --
>
> As every project is run a bit differently, the best advice I can give 
> you is to talk to the project leads &/or active developers, read the 
> mailing list posts to see what's going on in the project, etc. Get 
> involved! As people learn your name, and see what you're capable of 
> (eg., fixing bugs, submitting patches, contributing to architectural 
> discussions/planning), you'll rise from 'interested user' to 
> 'contributor' and maybe eventually committer.
>
> I've copied your question to the ve-dev@ mailing list so other active 
> participants can chime in with what they would like to see from new 
> members, and so other interested contributors can test out the wiki'd 
> instructions above and see if they work for them.
>
> (I'm the guy who pokes the builds & website from time to time, but I'm 
> not actively involved in the planning, development, or management of 
> this project beyond that.)
>
> Joe? Yves? Anything to add?
>
> Nick
>
> Snyman, Marius M wrote:
> > Nick, I noticed you did the VE 1.4.0 R build. If you would be so kind to 
> > assist me in getting started with the VE stuff.
> >
> >  
> >
> > I have never before been a contributor to open-source. The primary 
> > reason is that I do not know howe to get started.
> >
> >  
> >
> >  
> >
> > I have checked out the VE-ALL projects. There are sub-projects under 
> > some other projects.
> >
> >  
> >
> > If I open the projects in Eclipse I have a lot of errors regarding 
> > dependencies for logging and concurrency, etc..
> >
> >  
> >
> > I would like to understand this. 
> >
> > Must the project structures remain exactly as checked out?
> >
> > Must I download the dependencies from their respective web-sites? I have 
> > done this for the concurrency.jar and when I included it in the project 
> > I get deprecation errors on the JDT sources.
> >
> > Are there some basic guidelines somewhere on how to get actively 
> > involved in a project.
> >
> >  
> >
> >  
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> >
> > Kind regards.
> >
> >  
> >
> > Marius Snyman
> >
> > Marius.Snyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
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> >
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