Hi Greg and everybody else on this mailing list. My name is Pavel Sapozhnikov and I have been using Tiles 1 together with Struts 1 at my previous work while also experimenting with S2/Tiles2. I really like both projects and I find them very useful for web development in Java. I think Tiles 2 came long way from Tiles 1 and I am glad to see that. I would love to help do some work on Tiles but lack of the knowledge of the architecture and just simply lack of time due to my current job I might be unable to help.
Good luck. I wish Tiles will still keep on going and when the opportunity arises to write a java web app I will not think twice but use Tiles and Struts. Pavel On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am sending this message to ensure that everyone who would like to > help Apache Tiles move forward has the opportunity to help. If you > have been watching the mailing lists you will have noticed that > Antonio Petrelli has been doing a lot of work. By "a lot of work" I > mean Antonio has done all the commits, most of the Jira updates and > release planning, and the vast majority of mailing list support for > quite a long time now. While we are immensely grateful for Antonio's > contributions we would obviously like a larger group of people to > participate in the development of this framework. > > If you are subscribed to this list then you fall into one of two > categories: Either you are using Tiles on a regular basis for your > daily work, or you are curious about Tiles. Either way you need to > know that the future of Tiles depends on you. If you fall into the > first category and you made the decision to use Tiles then you can > help validate that decision by making the framework better. If you > fall into the first category and you did not make the decision and you > think Tiles sucks then you can fix that by making the framework better > :-) If you fall into the second category then you can satisfy your > curiosity by digging into and improving the code. > > If you're wondering where to start check out the list of open issues: > > > https://issues.apache.org/struts/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-printable/temp/SearchRequest.html?&pid=10160&status=1&status=3&status=4&sorter/field=issuekey&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=1000 > > You can see here everything from the Dimensions/Kaolin incubation to > database-driven Tiles definitions to all sorts of interesting > enhancements. Please have a look at the list and find things that > interest you and submit a patch. How do you submit a patch? It's quite > simple. Here's a quick guide: > > 1. Check out the source code. > > svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tiles/framework/trunk > (or appropriate repo) > > 2. Make changes required. > 3. Use Maven to build and test your code. > 4. Create a patch. > > svn diff > patchfile.txt > > 5. Attach the patch file to the Jira ticket. > > If you don't see anything on the list but you have other ideas for > Tiles we're interested in those too. Open a Jira ticket and do the > above steps to implement your changes. > > If framework code doesn't interest you we could always use > documentation and/or examples or even snazzy screenshots and icons. > After you've done this a few times don't be surprised if you see an > invitation to become a Tiles committer. > > If you still feel lost but want to help I will provide personal > assistance (via email and/or chat) to anyone who wants to step up and > do more but doesn't know where to start. Feel free to email me > privately if you need such help and I will absolutely do what I can. I > think Tiles can grow and succeed, but that necessitates the > involvement of many people. If you are benefiting from Tiles, please > step up and do what you can. If you are not benefiting then this is > your opportunity to become a hero :-) > > Thanks, > Greg > -- Pavel Sapozhnikov CDM [EMAIL PROTECTED]
