Re: New developers looking for a place to join in

 Hi again,

I just wanted to give an update on our group's decision.  We've gladly taken
Brian's advice and are digging into the animateMotion implementation.  We've
had one member of our group drop out, but Dickson Wong and I are charging
ahead un-phased.  I'm planning to publish, under the GNU FDL, all my course
work (writeups etc...) but I need to check with the instructor of the class
to see what caveats there may be to that...  Also, despite this being an
academic project, I am of the firm mind that the strength of open source
projects comes from collaboration, so if anyone knows any essential tidbits
that Dickson and I might have overlooked while we read about SMIL etc...
please don't hesitate to point us in the right direction.  It'd also be
great to hear some critiques of our project plans etc... once they're
uploaded to a server (provided the prof has no objections).  I was wondering
if we should mark bug #436418 as assigned to us, or if we've yet to earn
enough respect to take over bugs like that?  Thanks again for your warm
welcomes, and I look forward to helping the code grow into 3.2, oh and if
you see us in IRC, feel free to wave (my nick is _stochastic_ and Dickson's
is diwo).

-Eric Hedekar


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Brian Birtles <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jan 22, 1:06 am, Jonathan Watt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As you may know, Brian Britles, Daniel Holbert, Robert O'Callahan and
> others
> > have managed to get initial support for SMIL landed just recently.
> There's still
> > plenty of work (sub-features) to do though, and we'd like to get the
> support as
> > feature complete and bug free as possible before it's released in Firefox
> 3.2
> > (or whatever the release after 3.1 is). I've asked Brian and Daniel to
> comment
> > here with their own thoughts on all this, and perhaps give you some
> pointers.
>
> Hi!
>
> Yes, some help on SMIL would be great! You can get an idea of what
> features still need to be implemented at:
> http://brian.sol1.net/svg/status.php
>
> However, I would strongly recommend looking at animateMotion if you're
> interested in SMIL. It should be quite self-contained and is very
> "glamorous"! Also, you can look at the implementation of
> animateTransform and get some ideas from there. There'd be enough
> matrix maths to keep it interesting from a university project point of
> view too and all the code for parsing path syntax and calculating path
> lengths should be already available in Mozilla's SVG implementation.
>
> It's a pretty big job but could be fun!


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