I was finally able to get the project up and running on an IDE but
strangely enough, cannot get the opening video to run when I run the code
from the IDE. I've downloaded the actual game FreeCol 0.10.7 from the
website and when I run that normally, I do see the video playing. It could
be because I'm getting this error when running:
Unable to load Manifest: sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection cannot
be cast to java.net.JarURLConnection
Yet I do see:
[INFO] param "url" has string value
"file:/D:/Jonathan/Eclipse%20program/juno/juno%20workspace/FreeCol/data/rules/classic/resources/video/freecol-opening.video.ogg"
And yes, the path correctly links to the video file. I guess my question
would be if the video bug not appearing is still active or not?
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Michael T. Pope <mp...@computer.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:42:35 PM Jonathan Simona wrote:
> > Hello people of FreeCol, my name is Jonathan Simona and I was wondering
> if
> > it is possible for me to contribute to this project.
>
> I normally use the following standard response:
>
> Welcome. Getting started as a FreeCol contributor is summarized at
> http://www.freecol.org/how-to-contribute.html.
>
> however, that is slightly less helpful just now as sourceforge is currently
> upgrading our project and that URL is not working. Hopefully by the time
> you
> see this they will be done.
>
> > This is for my
> > school's Software Engineering class in which we are required to submit
> two
> > "non trivial" bugs fixes/ features over the next two months to an open
> > source project.
>
> Ah, another one:-).
>
> > That all said and done, I do not have any experience in working with any
> > open source project so I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to
> > give me a point in the correct direction. I'm currently downloading the
> > source code via SVN, but am not sure what to do after.
>
> IMHO the best way to make a useful contribution that satisfies your course
> requirements is to look at the bug tracker and fix some bugs. You could
> also
> consider implementing a new feature (Pending Features tracker), or working
> on
> an Improvement Request (yet another tracker), however the former often
> requires understanding what Colonization 1 really did, and the latter tend
> towards the trivial, so the bug tracker is the best bet. Beware that many
> bugs are blocked waiting for the reporter to give us enough information to
> reproduce it.
>
> Another useful thing to do is to read back over what we have been
> discussing
> on this list over the past month or two so you have an idea of what is
> going
> on.
>
> > If someone could point out some easy bugs to fix or features to add that
> > are not "trivial" and is willing to accept my patch, I would be most
> > grateful.
>
> Again IMHO, the category of bugs that needs the most attention is with the
> AI,
> however that is the hairiest part of FreeCol, and not recommended until you
> are quite familiar with the code. More suited in your case would be the
> next
> category, which is `strange stuff happening with the UI'. Paolo may want
> to
> comment there as he knows the GUI code best ATM and has some projects in
> mind
> (or rather, we keep hoping he will find some time to fix getResponse:-),
> but
> my nominees for `most annoying GUI bugs' would be:
>
> BR#3520455 Bug(UI) Map scroll in Colony screen
>
> and the various versions of the Windows-specific problem where popup
> windows
> appear behind the main window, such as:
>
> BR#3484760 Windows Initial video not appearing properly.
>
>
> If you fix something, just post your patch here. Good luck.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike Pope
>
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