On 2010-07-11 13:43, Daniel Gong wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here is my progress update.
>
> My planned timeline is as follows:
>
> Week 1       Read and fully understand the JDB specification;
> Week 2-3    Read and get familiar with the Eclipse JDI library;
> Week 4-8    Coding and debugging for the implementaiton of JDB;
> Week 9-11  Coding and debugging for the extensive enhancement;
> Week 12     Complete the documentation work.
>

What is start/end time of your each work item?

> It's been more than 6 weeks since the community binding period ended and
> coding period began. I've got more familiar with the Eclipse JDI library and
> the usage of jdb, and made a initial design of the jdb implementation. My
> follow-up task includes improving the design and "filling" each command one
> by one.
>
> Frankly speaking, my progress is a little behind the plan and I have to
> admit that I underestimated the complexity of jdb. There's no detailed
> documentation describing and specifying jdb behaviour and it cost me too
> much time to run RI's jdb to determine every detailed jdb response to
> certain user action. More, I have to understand these use cases and combine
> them to produce a proper design scheme to organize jdb functions to make it
> more maintainable and compatible with RI. I believe that once a proper
> design scheme is done, "filling in" functionality of each command will be
> much easier and I can improve its compatibility by extending it step by
> step.
>
> I don't know if it is possible to adjust my plan and target to make it
> more realistic. I've discussed with Mark and his opinion is complete
> compatibility is not required as long as my code has enough contribution to
> the community. However, "enough contribution" is hard to define and I hope

In my understanding, "enough contribution" maybe a code base, design 
documentation that everyone is able to work on it together.

> everyone who has some suggestion can help me with it. I'll appreciate it
> very much because this project is really challenging me.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best wishes
> Daniel Gong
>


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Regis.