2018-04-19 11:05 GMT+02:00 Adel Atallah <[email protected]>: > Hello everyone, > > I've been following the onboarding tracks 1 and 2 on the past days, here is > what I can say: > The first track really helped me to get started in XWiki contributions as I > could easily pick a jira issue to work on. The issue description was clear > even though we had to discuss it on the chat. Speaking of the chat, it has > been a very valuable tool, people have been very responsive and I was > rarely stuck. I found the development practice a bit inconvenient at first, > having to make changes in the vm files of my XWiki instance and then report > the changes to the sources.
On my side I like to use a diff tool to compare the templates of my running instance to the corresponding folder in my source files. For example, with the tool "meld", I do: meld ~/xwiki/instance/webapps/xwiki/templates/ ~/xwiki/platform/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-web/src/main/webapp/templates/ Or, for flamingo: meld ~/xwiki/instance/webapps/xwiki/skins/flamingo/ ~/xwiki/platform/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-flamingo/xwiki-platform-flamingo-skin/xwiki-platform-flamingo-skin-resources/src/main/resources/flamingo On my computer, I have created bash aliases for these 2 commands so I can start a diff very quickly. Then, it's very easy to see which files has changed, and I can copy them to the sources directory with a single click. I hope it helps, Thanks > I would have love to see a way to link my > source files (especially for vm/js/css files) with the one of my XWiki > instance to avoid errors when I copy past my changes (and get benefit of my > git ecosystem). > The second track is a good introduction to some XWiki concepts, I don't > have much to say for this one. A link to a real application could maybe > give a better understanding. > > Thanks again for the help I had! > > <http://www.xwiki.com/> *Adel Atallah* > *Product developer intern* > [email protected] <[email protected]> > tel: +33 (0)6 12 96 35 06 > -- Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project
