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RE: [ve-dev] Re: How to be a contributor to the VE project (was Re: VE Question.)
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> I have in the meantime discovered the main culprit for my errors was a dependency on the dependencies tab of plugin.xml.
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> I had errors because the version of com.ibm.icu on Galileo is 4.0.1 and the expected dependency was 3.something
In Fact, it is already fixed in CVS
yves
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> 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.
>>
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>> I have never before been a contributor to open-source. The primary
>> reason is that I do not know howe to get started.
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>> I have checked out the VE-ALL projects. There are sub-projects under
>> some other projects.
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>> If I open the projects in Eclipse I have a lot of errors regarding
>> dependencies for logging and concurrency, etc..
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>> I would like to understand this.
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>> 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.
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>>
>> Marius Snyman
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>> Marius.Snyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> 011 269 5591
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