Re: [udig-devel] Question on contributing

2012-05-31 Thread Frank Gasdorf
Hello Guys, What I've done so far : * checked out the Refraction's stylings and images * created a theme "udig" in udig-platform/docs/theme * added the converted content of GeoServerInstall to user sub-directory * added a required ant build-script (taken from geotools) * HACK : created a symb

Re: [udig-devel] Question on contributing

2012-05-30 Thread Jody Garnett
Let us kill two birds with one stone. The email has been confusing (for everyone) to follow as Frank and myself are learning about github pages as we go. If I could ask you to help with document migration - it would be great. And if you work on migrating the walkthroughs and tutorials (bird on

Re: [udig-devel] Question on contributing

2012-05-29 Thread Owen Brown
What can I do to help? Sorry if I sound a bit confused; office email was down over the weekend for an upgrade, been trying to catch up on the discussions here. Would it be best if I worked on document migration, or trying at a bugfix in the code? Owen Brown Developer Catalyst I

Re: [udig-devel] Question on contributing

2012-05-25 Thread Jody Garnett
> 1+ great idea!! > > You mean we can check in the rst sphinx files and github is able to render, > this would be really COOL!! - web side hosting inclusive. It is not as good at rendering as sphinx; but it would work for many of the pages. > In addition to this, I started creating a github "wel

Re: [udig-devel] Question on contributing

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Gasdorf
1+ great idea!! You mean we can check in the rst sphinx files and github is able to render, this would be really COOL!! - web side hosting inclusive. In addition to this, I started creating a github "welcome page" in a branch : https://github.com/fgdrf/udig-platform/tree/gh-pages (just used a tem

Re: [udig-devel] Question on contributing

2012-05-25 Thread Jody Garnett
We got an interesting technical challenge going … it looks like we can export out our wiki contents; extract textile files, convert from textile to sphinx RST files, and commit them into our source code repository. Why? Refractions is unable to update confluence; and github supports direct

Re: [udig-devel] Question on contributing

2012-05-24 Thread Owen Brown
Primarily Spring, JMS, JdbcTemplate, little bit of Hibernate and Maven and maybe a few other things I'm forgetting at the moment. Not sure how much of any of those are being used, so really just looking for something to cut my teeth on. Owen Brown Developer Catalyst IT Service

Re: [udig-devel] Question on contributing

2012-05-23 Thread Jody Garnett
That is a traditional approach. And bug fixes and reviews a great way to meet people. We also have the concept of community modules here that allow you to quickly work on your own independent module. There is a how to take part link on the developer page which has a few other suggestions.

[udig-devel] Question on contributing

2012-05-23 Thread Owen Brown
All, I am a benched developer at an IT contracting company looking to keep my Java skills up-to-date by working on an open-source project suited to my interests. Is the best way to get started as a new dev here to pick an issue in JIRA and attempt to fix it locally, or would anybody have better sug