On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:05 AM, Adel Atallah <adel.atal...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> 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. 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).

In Eclipse you have
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DebugXWikiWithEclipse.
This is also pre-configured in
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Onboarding/VM/Ubuntu/Eclipse/.

> 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*
> adel.atal...@xwiki.com <corina.lu...@xwiki.com>
> tel: +33 (0)6 12 96 35 06



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