Hi, great to get some help!
Dustin, the author of some of the Visio functionality, recently updated a few things already, but there is surely a big need for more description and guides for users to make it easier to get started. All the documentation pages live in Subversion at https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/site/, the latest Apache POI code is at https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/site/, it pulls in the docs via an SVN external link. When changes are checked in, they are immediately published to http://poi.apache.org/ <http://poi.apache.org/howtobuild.html> You probably can start by trying to get the docs built as described at http://poi.apache.org/howtobuild.html by installing Apache Forrest in the specified version. With this you can build the documentation pages locally and take a look before submitting them. You likely need to take a look at the available classes/code a bit and what functionality they provide. One thing that usually helps developers most is a "Quick Guide" which provides ready-made samples of how to do things with the library, see e.g. http://poi.apache.org/spreadsheet/quick-guide.html for something like this for the Excel format support. I suggest you take a look around a bit and then get back to us with any questions/hurdles that you ran into so we can get you going quickly! Dominik. On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 2:09 AM, Tom Popovich <[email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking of starting some open source projects (from older ideas that > I had) and also > helping existing projects, > > I saw this: And would be interested in learning how to join apache and help > out. > > thanks, Tom Popovich > > > *Task added: *Sun May 29 2016 > *Difficulty: * Journeyman - This requires a bit of knowledge of the > project, but otherwise is an easy task > *Task type:* Documentation and Guides > > We introduced classes which provide support for the Microsoft Visio file > format (.vsdx ). Internally this is called XDGF. > > Unfortunately the documentation about XDGF is lacking a bit, > http://poi.apache.org/overview.html does not list it correctly and the > sidebar point to http://poi.apache.org/hdgf/index.html, which is the > pre-Office 2007 .vsd-format, not .vsdx. > > The documentation is built as Apache Forrest XML files. The source for > these is located at https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/site/ > > The task includes reviewing the overview description of formats supported > by Apache POI to properly list the support for Visio file formats and to > add new documentation for the XDGF file format if necessary/appropriate. >
