Mailing-List: contact dev-help@corinthia.incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: dev@corinthia.incubator.apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of dave2wave@comcast.net
 designates 96.114.154.166 as permitted sender)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085)
Subject: Re: New Developer
From: Dave Fisher <dave2wave@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <COL401-EAS3630F82BE8B5D4C5DB7B564EA1D0@phx.gbl>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 10:34:56 -0800
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Message-Id: <1AE7883C-75D9-472D-B199-7BBADA2BA245@comcast.net>
References: <COL127-W15F555A617B7A9AFB96D47B51C0@phx.gbl>
 <0C5DF2B7-A8DD-4060-944D-9E5470973D55@apache.org>
 <COL401-EAS3630F82BE8B5D4C5DB7B564EA1D0@phx.gbl>
To: dev@corinthia.incubator.apache.org

This is the place for discussion about everything Corinthia.

The Apache Software Foundation has a mantra "if it didn't happen on the =
list, it didn't happen". We are about "Community over code". Here is =
where our community grows and develops! In the open and for the public =
good.

Welcome to Corinthia!

Regards,
Dave

On Mar 7, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Juande Manjon wrote:

>> Hi Juande, and welcome!
>>=20
>> Currently documentation for new contributors is very limited, and
> something
>> we're hoping to get sorted out in the near future. I'm hoping to find =
some
>> time in the following week to write up an overview of the editing =
API, as
> well
>> as sketch out a skeleton of the ODF support code in the file format
>> conversion library.
>>=20
>> Currently we have the following main efforts:
>> - Building a Qt-based application for end-users, which will enable =
editing
> of
>> documents (Jan has just recently gotten started on this)
>> - Building a web-based application which can be used in a similar =
fashion
> to
>> Google docs
>> - Adding ODF support to the DocFormats library
>>=20
>> Let us know what most interests you, or if you have anything else =
you'd
> like
>> to do with the project, and we can help you get started.
>>=20
>=20
> Hi Peter,
>=20
> All of them are very interesting,  actually I have C++ experience on =
Qt  and
> OOXML/ODF filter development. Currently, I am reading about javascript
> because I want to know more about web technologies and working on a
> web-based application looks a developer challenge task for me. And by =
the
> other side, working on C is less attractive.=20
>=20
> So, my first choice is definitely web-based but I will be glad to work =
a
> little on the ODF filter design, in which I can provide very good =
feedbacks
> because of my previous experience dealing with it.
>=20
> Regarding to the limited documentation, with the dev-list responses I =
was
> able to get the code and build and debug on Windows following =
Gabriella and
> Jan instructions (Thank you) for git and external batch.
>=20
> I did have a look at the code and current functionality of the dfutil =
and
> dfconvert. And I have some technical and architecture questions about =
how
> web application interfaces with DocFormat library. Is this list the =
right
> place to discuss or brainstorm ideas?
>=20
> Thanks,
> Juande