ups.. i did not thought about the plugins. they would be really a major issue, as there should be a lot of plugins outhere (actually i estimate that our university research group only has developed 50 plugins which would be hard to change). but this holds probably only for the com.vividsolutions code
stefan Stefan Steiniger schrieb: > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
