From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Sat Apr 13 2002 - 11:05:23 EDT
source tarball from the abisource.com/sourceforge webpage
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/abiword-0.99.5.tar.gz
or view them all here
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15518&release_id=83035
you may need a few other libs and bits and pieces that may not be in
tarball if so you may mail me offlist and i will help find them or grab
them for you and put them on a/my page.
Unless you have a strong desire to program the Graphial user interface (ie
GTK) i do think the importers and expoters are a good place to get
started. there are plenty of existing importers and exporters which i
hope you can use as examples.
Are you familiar with DocBook? Many open source projects use DocBook.
If you know a bit about hypertext (html) and/or XML and have some
documentation i think it would be a good place to start. If there is
another file format you are interested relatively more interested in
please say so.
(because i would love if abiword could import the LaTeX it exports).
Image export was recently added to to DocBook but this breaks the
DocBook import.
I think it should be easy enough to add support for image
import to docbook, and i suspect it will be very similar to xhtml image
import code. (would the real developers please warn if there
are hidden complexities that i am unaware of).
There may not be a specific bug related to this issue but i did add a
comment to one of the existing docbook import bugs.
request to hub or others with webmaster priviledges for the sourceforge
page.
i would like to be able to link directly to specific parts of the download
page.
Please add anchor tags for each section (spell,plugins,abiword) on the
download page, or alternatively please consider making them available as
three seperate pages
Sincerely
Alan
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Roshan Mathews wrote:
> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:06:02 +0530
> From: Roshan Mathews <roshan@gamebox.net>
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Newbie volunteer -- need some directions and help
>
> Hello Frank and others,
>
> : The way I started was to go through Bugzilla's open bugs
> : looking for ones that seemed (a) interesting, and (b)
> : vaguely relevant to my expertise (such as it was/is).
>
> That will be bugzilla.abisource.com right? The problem is that I
> have no particular area of expertise, (I thought I knew C pretty
> well but had to revise my opinion after trying to work through
> K&R). I am struggling through the GTK+ tutorial too.
>
> So I'd like to start with someone giving me the smaller parts of
> the code to write or something. Is this possible?
>
> The problem is I have no idea how this system works. I mean I
> don't know how to find the bugs I'm looking for unless I know the
> entire source, and I really won't know how to read thousands of
> line of AbiWord code? Helpful ideas, anyone?
>
> : The next step is frightening, because you realize just how
> : *big* AbiWord is. Try to ignore as much of it as possible.
> : Tunnel vision is your ally.
>
> So I should download the latest source, right? But since I can't
> use CVS, how do I find the latest sources?
>
> : When at long last you've figured out how stupid I/we've been
> : - which is not unlikely - create a patch (ask how, if
> : uncertain) and send it to us.
>
> OK, I'll make a patch after I read the source. (A) If the source,
> is huge, I won't be able to read it right? So then how do I find
> the bugs? (B) I'll read the info pages on diff and patch, will
> that be enough?
>
> : If we start swearing at you, there's a problem - though not
> : necessarily a fatal one. It's unlikely, however.
>
> :)
>
> : It's a big project, and there are only a few developers. If
> : you're determined to help, there will be plenty to do.
>
> I am determined, 'cos I'm Pop-Eye the sailor man. OK, I am not
> very crazy, so I can work. :)
>
> Seriously, I'd really like to join the project.
>
> : Ciao, Frank
>
> Regards,
> Roshan
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