[Phpwiki-talk] Re: do you still need developers?

[John S. <joh...@uc...>]

I updated from cvs, and the non-object error
disappeared in running test.php.

now i am getting a timeout error 
--- Reini Urban <ru...@x-...> wrote:

> [private msg redirected to the list]
> 
> John Shen schrieb:
> > Thanks, how should I get started?
> > 
> > Since I am mostly an admin, the first thing I
> would
> > like to fix is the nightly snapshoot. It should be
> a
> > simple cron job if I can guess, or any other
> system/db
> > admin work you have.
> 
> that's entirely a (partially broken) sf.net service.
> most other cronjobs run as non-active users, which
> left the project 
> years ago, and didn't hand over their cronjobs or
> file perms.
> we can live with it though.
> 
> > Since this would be my first attempt to contribute
> to
> > a sourceforge project, I may have to ask some
> silly
> > questions.
> 
> then you have to study the sf.net docs in
> administration of projects.
> cvs, shell, web services.
> most of them is out of our reach, so we have to
> eitehr fill out request 
> forms in the tracker or do it by our own.
> 
> > Then I would like to try to contribute to bug
> > fixing/feature development for the next release.
> How
> > does the team operate? 
> 
> communicating in the phpwiki-talk ml.
> 
> > 1. How to take on something (I will start with
> > something simple first)? Is there a todo list that
> no
> > one is working on but needs to be worked on? 
> 
> yes. please see the ml archives, the HomePage and
> ReleaseNotes in the 
> demo site,
> then my internal TODO list:
> 
> fix:
> * javascript search&replace
> * test httpauth, and reported personalpage auth
> problems
> * test against php-5.0.2 (block parser)
> * test against apache2
> do all unit tests:
>    all langs, all db backends, all pages import and
> export
> improvements:
> * PageChangeNotification other actions also (to
> test: rename, remove).
>    better subject on create.
> * collapse page change notification on LoadAny
> * restrict certain action to groups: RawHtml (could
> be a define)
> * db.timeout: force mysql.connect_timeout = 60
> * rewrite OldTextFormattingRules,
> AnciennesR%E8glesDeFormatage
>    for proper importing (done?)
> * test WikiPluginCached support for image maps and
> svg, swf, eps, ... 
> (partially done)
>    defer header logic
> * don't print php notices and warnings as red
> errors. (done)
>    just green or grey
> * pagerank algo: HITS
> http://www2002.org/CDROM/refereed/643/node1.html
> maybe (probably defer):
> * iniconfig helpers (create config.ini, installer)
> * and and fix more wikilens libs and plugins, layout
> improvements
>    there's a wikilens.org page describing the todo
> items.
> * SqlResult paging
> * plugin\WikiAdminSetAclSimple
> * plugin\NewUserWelcomePage.php
> * plugin\SearchHighlight
> * logfile stuff:
> *   plugin\RecentReferrers
> *   WikiAccessRestrictions
> * PageModeration
> * SpamAssassinIntegration
> 
> already done lately:
> * pdf button when an external html2pdf app is
> defined
>    (enabled at PhpWikiDemo)
> * enhanced WikiPluginCached (static, ondemand)
> * added LdapSearchPlugin
> * more PageList options
> 
> 1.3.11 Goals: (expected date: end of June 2004)
> 
>      * fix more sf.net bugs and patches (90%)
>      * fix LDAP with USER_AUTH_POLICY=old (100%)
>      * ADODB lock and transaction fixes (50%)
>      * some more theme beautification, new crao and
> nuke theme,
>        cut or split long sidebar links somehow
> (100%)
>      * add some basic Recommender engine to enable
> rating recommendations,
>        fix metadata getAvg and test it. (100%)
>      * fix metadata RateIt methods and RateIt
> usergroups, (100%)
>      * rewrite WikiGroup to be current_user
> independent to be able
>        to ask for group membership of any user.
> (100%)
>      * more action=upgrade (diffs, multi-page
> interface) (60%)
>      * finish PdfOutput plugin and button (80%)
>      * add editpage javascript toolbar (90%)
>      * try the php-internal soap extension, test
> SOAP, fix 
> GooglePlugin+AmazonPlugin (0%)
>      * iniconfig helpers (JobyWalker) (0%)
>      * improve more plugins caching (90%)
> 
>      * change remove_page in WikiDb API, so that
> RecentChanges displays it.
>        (just purge all revisions?)
>      * rename global $Theme to $WikiTheme (gforge
> nameclash) (100%)
> 
> 1.4.0 Goals: (expected date: June-July 2004)
> 
>      * fix WikiAdminSetAcl (least common ACL
> denominator) (90%)
>      * enable ACL's in the mime dumps (100%)
>      * force strict PagePermissions on all plugins,
> which require now
>        admin and some more administrative actions
> (90%)
>      * complete full paging support (limit=,
> prev/next buttons in
>        PageList) (80%)
>        fix paging in MostPopular
>      * fix possibly remaining WikiGroup problems
> (100%)
>      * fix possibly remaining RateIt problems (0%)
>      * finalize PdfOutput (0%)
>        external works fine
>      * finalize editpage javascript toolbar (90%)
>        fix search/replace bug
>      * finalize SOAP support (0%) (test native soap
> module)
>      * better utf-8 support (50%) (this is hard:
> strstr, substr, ...)
>      * format=rdf and a new owl PageType (similar to
> InterWikiMap)
>        to statically define predicates used by
> PhpWiki:SemanticWeb
>        (semantically enriched links, like interwiki
> links).
> 
> > 2. How do I contribute code. Do I just send you
> > patches to files against the cvs files?
> 
> yes, to the patch tracker or the ml.
> 
> > 3. How do you debug phpwiki code in general? (php
> does
> > not have a debug as far as I know, but php5 might
> have
> > something, print_r/echo is the only method I know
> of).
> 
> php has some very advanced IDE debuggers.
> zend studio, komodo, ...
> php5 only has xdebug so far, with a new protocol
> which only komodo 
> understands.
> zend beta also has some php5 cgi support.
> 
> > --- Reini Urban <ru...@x-...> wrote:
> >>John Shen schrieb:
> >>>I have developed in the lamp environment for the
> >>>past 4 years. I am also a Linux sys admin.
> >>>I would like to contribute to the development of
> >>>phpwiki if you still need someone.
> 
> >sure. go on.
> -- 
> Reini Urban
> 
> 
> 
> 
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--John Shen

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