[gwt-contrib] Code reviews on compiler patches

['Roberto Lublinerman' via GWT Contributors]

Anybody up for reviewing https://gwt-review.googlesource.com/c/gwt/+/20580?

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[gwt-contrib] Re: How can I contribute to GWT?

[Ahmad Bawaneh]

You are very welcome,looking forward to chat with you in on gitter channel. 
:+1

On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 10:08:15 PM UTC+2, Mincong Huang wrote:
>
> You've provided a lot of useful tips and resources. Really appreciate 
> this! Thank you, Ahmad.
>
> On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 10:39:00 AM UTC+1, Ahmad Bawaneh wrote:
>>
>> Nice to see people asking about this, i went through this before you and 
>> now i do my small part of contributions because i love GWT i want it to be 
>> better and i want to help the amazing developer who maintain and provide us 
>> with such stable wonderful library.
>>
>> I was a GWT nop even though i used it for a long time, i was doing it the 
>> wrong way, i do thing without real understanding, but things changed and i 
>> do dig deep before i do anything, i have become a contributor in several 
>> ways, so this my list of how i can contribute not only to the GWT itself 
>> but also to the GWT community :
>>
>>
>>1. Asking questions : asking questions is a good way to contribute, 
>>each question opens a discussion that you and the community can benefit 
>>from, it give more understanding to those interested in the topic, but 
>>where to ask :
>>   - Here in the GWT google groups : the good thing about GWT google 
>>   groups that the posts are actually emails that reach large number of 
>>   people, discussions are persisted for later when anyone came through 
>> the 
>>   same issue they can search and find the discussion, add their 
>> contribution.
>>   - GWT community 
>>    on 
>>   google+ : even though it is not as much as active, but there is GWT 
>> people 
>>   there who are not on google groups, comments and discussions can be 
>> done 
>>   there.
>>   - GWT gitter channel  : The 
>>   place where i spend most of my time, every day tons of discussions and 
>>   announcements happens there, the other good thing is how joining one 
>>   channel will lead to join more GWT related channels, and offer a 
>> better 
>>   chance for learning and contribution. the people in there are so 
>> amazing 
>>   and their knowledge is beyond my reach, and they willing to spend time 
>>   talking to you to solve your issue or guide you with your contribution.
>>2. Solving GWT issues : as you said the issues might not be labeled 
>>as you desire, but when you get involved using the channels above you 
>> will 
>>receive the guidance you are looking for, i have recently applied a very 
>>huge Patch to GWT that updates the CLDR data from version 25 to version 
>> 32, 
>>the issue was not labeled , and it was not an easy one for a starter, but 
>>with the guidance from Colin on the gitter  channel we made it happen 
>>here  and it got 
>>merged believe me this huge patch was my first patch with GWT, the guys 
>> on 
>>the channel will help you from A-Z till it is done.
>>3. Libraries around GWT : there is tons of libraries around GWT, even 
>>though is old but it is yet modern and stable, and it brings some new 
>>things every while, like JsInterop and Lambda support with Java8, there 
>> is 
>>old libraries out on the while that are still uses old stuff, you can 
>> work 
>>on these libs and make them use the new stuff, sometimes you might need 
>> to 
>>rewrite a lib and solve an issue or bring new things to from the original 
>>one, recently i wrote a library based on GWTJackson that uses Annotation 
>>processing instead of generators and uses the same json mapper for both 
>> the 
>>client and server side here 
>> , i am also building a UI 
>>library for material design that uses elements, elemental and elemento 
>>instead of widgets , here  , 
>>you can bring a new lib or work on or be inspired by an existing one.
>>4. GWT 3.0 : We are already working on Porting stuff from GWT 2.8.x 
>>to GWT 3.0, we make the GWT 2 module ready for j2cl when they hit GWT 3.0 
>>which will use the j2cl as a transpiler, there is just too much code to 
>>port and since we do this in our spare time we are really short in hands 
>> to 
>>work on this, but it is really required before we can ship GWT 3.0, this 
>>kind of contribution is really really appreciated, you can find the list 
>> of 
>>modules that need to be ported and who is working on which module here 
>>
>> ,
>>  
>>the already ported modules builds are available here 
>>, so another way to contribute in this 
>>field is to use the ported modules and report any issue