Hi Alina, Welcome and very cool! :)
Please use the xwiki devs mailing list or IRC/Matrix to reply so that everyone can participate to the discussion. Thanks -Vincent > On 25 Mar 2018, at 16:07, Clément Aubin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Alina! > > My name is Clément ; with Vincent (in CC of this email) I'm one of the > mentors for the GSoC project "Google Blocky Editor" [1]. > > First of all, I would like to thank you for applying to this GSoC > project. I've read the resume and the draft proposal you published on > the GSoC website, and for now, I'm pretty interested in helping you > archiving this project :). > > Before everything else, could you tell us if you had the chance to test > XWiki before (maybe in a company you worked for or just when searching > for a GSoC project) ? > > The XWiki Community uses two main channels to communicate : Matrix / IRC > [6] for day to day chat and mailing-lists [5]. As you will surely be > interacting with other community members over the next months, I suggest > that you sign up at least to our devs mailing-list and say hi, > presenting quickly your motivation for doing this GSoC project with us > (that way, other XWiki contributors will get to know you more easily :)). > > To respond to the question that you asked on [2] about the issue > XWIKI-15129, I suggest that you take a look at this file [3] ; it's a > template written in Velocity [4] that is used to display a diff between > two different document versions. We heavily rely on Velocity for > rendering templates inside of XWiki, and there is a very high chance > that you will need to use this language as part of the Blocky Editor > project. > > For solving this issue (and also for archiving this project), you will > need to take a look at our development practices [7]. They generally > sum-up the "etiquette" to follow during the development of code related > to XWiki. If you have some free time, taking a look at the different > categories proposed on [9] is a good shot, as it will help you better > understand how the XWiki ecosystem works. > > Finally, I've noticed that we have a significant time difference between > our geographical locations. Vincent and I both live in France, and we > have a 4 hour delta with Kazakhstan [8]. That's something we will need > to keep in mind. > > Please don't hesitate to come back to us if you have any other question, > > Thanks, > Clément > > [1] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/BlocklyEditor > [2] > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FmMdU3UkpF4x62S2YbIOsOt1LViI7e4SsfJm3Ovi8gg/edit# > [3] > https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-web/src/main/webapp/templates/changesdoc.vm > [4] https://velocity.apache.org/ > [5] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Discuss > [6] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Chat > [7] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DevelopmentPractices > [8] > https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20180325T140000&p1=195&p2=382 > [9] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
