Re: New developers looking for a place to join in

 > 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?

Go for it!  Good luck :)  I can hopefully help out, if you get stuck -- 
I'm "dholbert" on IRC.

Thanks!
~Daniel

On 02/09/2009 11:24 PM, Eric Hedekar wrote:
>   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!
>
>