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From: "HANAX" <hanax@hanaxsoftware.com>
To: "Ross Gardler" <rgardler@apache.org>, <dev@forrest.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Re: submit and testing
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:27:50 +0200
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> HANAX wrote:
> > If I should upload my work, how?
>  
> Create a zip and attach it to an issue on the issue tracker - 
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR

ok, my archive is ready... but i don't know how to use that tracker... =
can you help please? :)

>  
> > And second - in what state sould be work uploaded? I mean, now I ha=
ve really basic functionality finished, when is goot time to upload?
>  
> In Open Source you will often here "release early, release often". In=
 
> other words, get people to look at your code as early as possible, th=
is 
> will encourage contributions and will give them the chance to give yo=
u 
> feedback.
>  
> It does not need to be complete, just complete enough to allow others=
 to 
> play with it. We have a special whiteboard area for code that is stil=
l 
> in the early stages of development.
>  
> > Who will test my work (except me :) ? X+V technology is pretty new,=
 which browser should be used for testing?
>  
> I will certainly give it a play when I get time. As for which browser=
, I 
> don't know you will have to tell me. Your contribution should include=
 
> some docs on how to set up an environment in which we can test the X+=
V 
> stuff, i.e. what browsers, what additional software i requried, where=
 to 
> get it from etc.
>  
> The more detailed these instructions the more likely you are to find =

> people testing your plugin.
>  
> Ross