Re: A new comer and an offer to Savannah

Loic Dachary wrote:
> Laurent Julliard writes:
>  > 
>  > My plan is to contribute this source code/documentation and be the
>  > primary contact/maintainer for it. Again I appreciate your comments and
>  > feedback as well as your view on how to proceed to commit the changes if 
>  > you think it makes sense.
>  > 
> 
> 	What you've added to SourceForge is exactly what we need most.
> I'm inclined to give you write access to the Savannah tree, if you're
> willing to help integrate your changes into Savannah. I guess ljulliar
> is your prefered Savannah account name ?
> 

ljulliar is my login name on Savannah. That would be good for me to be 
given write access to the CVS repo but I think we must go through 
preliminary steps before i do that (see my reply to Christian)

> 	As we all know, the un-templatized nature of the SF 2.0 code
> imposes a fair amount of manual tweaking.

I had a look at the Savannah code some motnhs ago and I don;t think the 
Xerox code will need a lot of tweaking.

 > I guess Mathieu Roy would be
> most interested in the documentation (since he did some useful work on
> this subject for Savannah lately).

I'm ready to help Mathieu here.

> I'd be interested to help you
> integrate the data export (import ?) facility. This is something we
> need badly and the current XML export that we have is not really
> functional.

We also considered the XML based export at the beginning of oor project 
but then realized that very few end-user applications (espcially Office 
kind of applications) can digest XML formatted input. So we sticked to 
CSV (comma separated values) which is rudimentary but works well.

This being said I think it night be a better idea to start with the bug 
tracking system and then the export facility.

Laurent

> 
> 	Cheers,
> 



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