FengGUI Project approved on SourceForge

[Johannes Schaback]

Good news everyone,

We got our FengGUI space approved! You can find it here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fenggui

I order to commit to the SVN, you need to be registered at SF. I can
then add you as a developer to the FengGUI project. So please send me
your SF user name.

There is a pretty good SVN plugin for Eclipse. It's called Subclispe
(perhaps you heard of it you are not already using it :) )

My modifications I do on the source will be checked in the SVN
exclusively from now on. The CVS on java.net will be freezed
(somehow... I have no idea yet how to do that actually)

I also managed to install DokuWiki for our user guide after a
laborious hour of by-passing SF's webserver security policy. Check it
out here http://fenggui.sourceforge.net/dokuwiki/doku.php

I believe it is sensible to make use of the mailing lists on SF to
have everything in one place. Therefore I installed a developer
mailing list to which we want to switch in the future. Please
subscribe to that list.

There are few but less pleasant things we need to do now:

1) build a decent FengGUI website. Does anyone feel up to that task?
My web-design skills are rather moderate, but I could provide some
nice buttons/logos/banners.

2) move the unresolved cases from the FengGUI bug tracker on Rainers
site to the SF bug tracker. Spawn bug reports from feature requests
and put them in their associated tracker.

3)... err there is more to come. Be patient young Padawan. :)

Johannes

[Whackjack]

Cool!  I don't know how much I'll be able to contribute, but I can definitely
help out on the website.  My web design skills are basic (I'm a programmer,
not an artist =P) but I would probably help out best with the English and
any tutorials.

Might I suggest having the FengGUI webpage forward to the wiki until
we get something up there?

Josh

[Whackjack]

Just realized I didn't put my username =P

whackjack

[Johannes Schaback]

Hi Josh,

> Cool! I don't know how much I'll be able to contribute, but I can
> definitely
> help out on the website. My web design skills are basic (I'm a programmer,
> not an artist =P) but I would probably help out best with the English and
> any tutorials.

That's great. I think the most stuff will be in the Wiki (user guide
and tutorials) so that we can conveniently work on that together. I am
currently moving the old texts from java.net to SF (Introduction,
Getting Started and PixmapBorders Tutorial). Maybe you can have a look
on them?

> Might I suggest having the FengGUI webpage forward to the wiki until
> we get something up there?

yeah. Good idea. It did that before I started to write you this mail.

Btw, I registered the domain fenggui.org. I first thought that I could
simply redirect all incomming requests on the DNS level from
fenggui.org to fenggui.sourceforge.net but the provider is incapable
of doing so. Well in fact they can but not with this low status I have
(I got the cheapest account). It might have been smarter to chose a
different company. Anyway... we can try our luck with a ghost frame...
I will experiment with that.

Johannes

[Johannes Schaback]

Hmm, the ghost frame works, but it hides all URLs. That's nice as long
as you stay on fenggui related pages. But third party sites are
displayed in the ghost frame as well such that they also appear to be
on www.fenggui.org (which is what we DO NOT want).

I installed a simple redirection link for now. When you go on
www.fenggui.org you will notice that you get redirected to
fenggui.sourceforge.org.

Johannes