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

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

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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