Where are we assembling this information? We can use our wiki since it already has some of this started... Git information [1], Bug fixing [2]. Well just have to layout the structure before we start.
It's a lot of work up front to get started. Setting up to build the nightly sdk can be daunting at first. Setting up a developing environment (which I assume they have already if there working with Flex). Then they can try to help out. TL Getting started ....Setting up nightly SDK ........Installer way ........Setting up Manually ....Setting up IDEs (if desired) ........Flash Builder ........IntelliJ Idea ........FlashDevelop ....Creating Accounts for anything required. ........JIRA account ....Bug hunting ........How to select easy bugs (filtering n such) ....Bug Fixing ........How to identify what needs to be fixed. ........Ways we should fix things (asdoc, comments, code style matching, ...) ........Test application to test the problem and when it's fixed ....Testing ........ChekinTests ........Mustella for component(s) ........ ....Patch ........Creating patch file ........Adding patch to issue. ........Adding test application to issue. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Git+for+Apache+Flex+Guide [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Bug+Fixing On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:08 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala <bigosma...@gmail.com>wrote: > I would like to compile a comprehensive tutorial on how to fix, test and > submit patches to the Flex SDK. I feel that some important pieces re > missing for more users to contribute to the SDK. Here are a few things we > may want to concentrate on: > > a) Get latest code. Does [1] have the most current information? > b) Set up development environment (With at least FB. IntelliJ would be a > bonus) > c) Walk through an 'easyfix' bug from JIRA and fix it > d) Test the changes. Checkintests, Mustella, Alex's patch server, etc. > e) Generate a patch file and submit > > Justin, Mark, Erik, Alex, etc. who have been regularly fixing bugs, can you > please take some of these up and help me compile/edit the tutorial? > > Thanks, > Om > > [1] http://flex.apache.org/dev-sourcecode.html >
