Hei Harvey, we welcome you (and others) on the list
Harvey Harrison schrieb: > I'm new to the list and was wondering how welcome patches would be to > do some codingstyle / pachage name cleanup? > > Is there a standard codingstyle accepted for the project? > > Is there any move afoot to unify under the org.openjump.* namespace > and remove the com.vividsolutions, etc namespaces to make things more > coherent. Would such changes be welcomed? > our last decissions (one may correct me here) has been that we don't go for code style standards, since everybody has his own preferences. A further, and more important reason, is that such small changes in the code make it very hard to keep the sources in sync and update new features among different projects (e.g. JUMP, OpenJUMP, SkyJUMP, SIGLE). Similar things hold for the renaming of packages. Of course a unification is a plus and should be considered for the future (in one year???), but it makes updating between projects unnecessary diffcult. The current style also provides hints for programmers for the original sources. I hope on your understanding? But suggestions, bug-patches, reviewing, ... i.e. any feedback is highly appreciated. > Also, any pointers to some low-hanging fruit a new developer could > help with to get familiar with the project? puhh.. thats a tricky question ;) Here it would be nice to know your skills or background (for instance we have only very few people that are familiar with threading for GUI functionalities, but also database specialists or GIS analysis, raster tools specialists are sought) currently people contribute "uncoordinated". That is everybody does what he things is of interest in his own work/project. A rule is that we try to do as less core changes as possible and favour if new functionality is delivered by use of the great plugin concept. Changes of the core have to be discussed on the list, before any commit. For direct inputs on "fruits" i would refer to our bug and feature request lists on sourceforge, as well as to this section on the wiki: http://openjump.org/wiki/show/Future+Developments (but i must admit, that some of the issues are rather old) so finally my general answer would be, tell us (i.e. the list or in a personal email*) what is your (programming) background and/or what is your specific interest. The top ranked things to do, are related to an OpenJUMP 1.2 release - which inludes even some non-dev-todos like documentation (Peppe has a go on it) and creating windows-installer-versions (i think Paul put some hands on, and SkyJUMP has already a quite well working windows installer) BTW: if you are a mac-osx-user and developer then we may have specific challenges for you ;) cheers, stefan *) people who have contributed since a long time to the project (i.e. have a well-founded knowledge on source-code and the project), are: Michael Michaud, Larry Becker, Sunburned Surveyor and I. The designer of JUMP, Martin Davis, and original JUMP programmers, Jon Aquino and David Zwiers, are also watching this list. > > Cheers, > > Harvey Harrison > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
