Re: Hello everyone, I am glad to join Abiword

OK.

I will try my best to fix the issue on importer plugin.

thanks,

Joe


On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Globe Trotter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Vidhoon and Joe,
>
> The following is a very serious bug and afflicts a lot of docx documents:
>
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13475
>
> I for one would be very grateful if you worked on it.
>
> Thanks,
> Trotter
>
>
> --- On Fri, 3/22/13, Vidh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: Vidh <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: Hello everyone, I am glad to join Abiword
>> To: "joe joe" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: "Martin Sevior" <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
>> Date: Friday, March 22, 2013, 5:02 AM
>>
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> I am Vidhoon. I also started working on Abiword very
>> recently.
>> Welcome & glad to know you.
>>
>> Last what I heard, many possible mentors and key developers
>> are very
>> busy at the moment.
>>
>> Let me tell you how I kick started myself with Abiword.
>>
>> -> As you mentioned it is a good idea to have a build
>> setup for
>> Abiword where you can put traces, make small changes and
>> test how it
>> is taking effect
>>
>> -> I recommend building on "Debug mode". This gives lot
>> of traces that
>> give a general (vague maybe) idea of various things that
>> happen when
>> we open an abiword document. This is an important step
>> because this
>> part of the Abiword GSOC 2013 wiki requires us to try this
>> step for
>> applying:
>> http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013#Additional_Requirements
>>
>> -> Coming to bugzilla part, I am not sure of the exact
>> procedure. I am
>> also currently working on a bug. So I can tell you the steps
>> I
>> followed.
>>  1)First, choose a bug using the search option in bugzilla
>> (make sure
>> u notice component and platform options).
>> 2)I was asked to prefer bugs on "trunk" or else check if
>> existing bugs
>> are reproducible on trunk. If they are not you have leave
>> your comment
>> that it is either reproducible or not on trunk.
>> 3) Then, I first tried to look into the code and find
>> relevant areas
>> of code. If I am able to understand the problem at code
>> level, then I
>> assigned the bug to myself and started working on it.
>> 4) After getting a fix patch worked out, upload on bugzilla.
>> In my
>> case, Simon tested my fix patch and reported his
>> observations.
>>
>> Nobody raised concerns on these steps that I followed to
>> take up
>> working on a bug. So I assume you can follow the same
>> routine.
>>
>> -> Coming to your project interest, (table improvements)
>> I found here
>> that there may be other people who have already worked on it
>> during
>> previous GSOCs.
>> http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013#Table_improvements
>> May be you can get in touch with them, understand the latest
>> status
>> and get started on that using their documentation or
>> something.
>>
>> hope this information helps.
>> I can respond and help on queries related to the info I have
>> given
>> here whenever I have email access.
>>
>> Best of luck!
>> cheers!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:48 PM, joe joe <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I am Joe. Sorry to bother you guys. I found that you
>> guys maybe the
>> > mentor on this GSOC.
>> > I sent a mail to the mail list two days ago but get
>> no-reply. and I
>> > can't get response from IRC (#abiword) too.
>> >
>> >
>> > I am quite interested on the idea:  Table
>> improvements
>> >
>> > With this aim, I have took some steps:
>> > 1. Read the developer guide on http://www.abisource.com/developers/.
>> > 2. I spent some time on reading the API of Abiword,
>> which will be a
>> > great help to dig into Abiword code.
>> > 3. Check out the code from SVN, and build Abiword on
>> Windows following
>> > http://www.abisource.com/~fjf/BUILD.phtml
>> >
>> >
>> > Can I pick up some bugs from Bugzilla and fix them if I
>> can? Are there
>> > more thing that I need to do before the application?
>> >
>> > Joe
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:10 PM, joe joe <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> Hello everyone,
>> >>
>> >> I am Joe, I am glad to join Abiword. Following are
>> some information about Me.
>> >> 1. I am a student from Academy of Science, China,
>> major at Computer
>> >> science. this year is my third-year on university.
>> >> 2. I am good at C++ programming, and I love open
>> source.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>  I would like to join ABiword project on
>> Google Summer of Code.I read
>> >> some information from the link:
>> >> http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013.
>> >> I am quite interested on the idea:  Table
>> improvements
>> >>
>> >> With this aim, I have took some steps:
>> >> 1. Read the developer guide on http://www.abisource.com/developers/.
>> >> 2. I spent some time on reading the API of Abiword,
>> which will be a
>> >> great help to dig into Abiword code.
>> >> 3. Check out the code from SVN, and build Abiword
>> on Windows following
>> >> http://www.abisource.com/~fjf/BUILD.phtml
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Are there more thing that I need to do before the
>> application? This is
>> >> my first time to join GSOC, so I am not quite sure
>> about it. can
>> >> someone give me some tips and help, many help!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Joe
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Vidhoon Viswanathan
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>>