Re: May I join your EEEdit Project?
David Terei
Edward L. Fox wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On 9/10/07, David Anthony Terei <david...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Edward,
>>
>> Sure, any help is greatly appreciated. There is lots of work to be done as
>> well.
>>
>> At the moment I want to just get Vim working very nicley sort of by itself.
>> By this I mean, don't worry about getting Eclipse features such as
>> compilation error highlighting... ect working. These will be harder issues
>> to solve but also they are language dependent, you will really have to
>> implement them for each specific Eclipse development enviornment (while
>> still mainly Java, also have C/C++, Ruby, Python... there as well).
>
> OK, I see. I understand that. I'll focus on the most important issue
> at this moment.
>
>> So I want to just work really on things that will be common to all text
>> editting, so been able to save from within Vim or from Eclipse, use the Copy
>> and Paste and Select All menu items from within Eclipse to edit in Vim...
>
> I think it is in the second priority. The most important thing is
> making the basic functions work properly under most platforms. In fact
> it doesn't work well on my Debian Lenny box currently.
Agree completely.
>
>> There isnt really a TODO list at the moment, we do make use of the Issue
>> tracker a little bit and will try to more in the future. There is also a
>> TODO.txt file in SVN but that contains more 'bugs' really then general TODO
>> sort of items.
>
> Personally I prefer issue tracker to TODO list. It's much easier to
> keep track of the work.
Once again also agree, have recently moved all items from the TODO list
to the tracker.
>
>> The above is just my plans though, so if you'd prefer to work on say code
>> completion for Java then go right ahead, just attack whatever interests you
>> most.
>>
>> Another developer is working on the project as well but he has been very
>> busy latley. I myself am working full time at the moment.
>>
>> Im happy to just add you to the project on google code so that you will have
>> SVN access. I've also been planning and will try to consolidate all the TODO
>> items into the web site and perhaps get some brief developer documentation
>> up. Probably best to just have a browse around the code and give me a shout
>> what you plan to work on if its anything major just so as I know not to
>> start on that myself.
>
> OK, it'll be good to have the SVN access. But I also suggest that we
> can use SVK instead of accessing the SVN repository directly. It'll
> make us easier to do code review for each others.
Sounds nice. I've heard about SVK in the past but never really tried it
out. I much prefer (like most people these days I think) distributed SCM
tools (Darcs being my personal choice), so I'll look into it and try to
get up and running with it.
Oh and I have added you to the project now, so you should have SVN access.
>
>> Oh and we have a mailing list setup: eeedi...@googlegroups.com, please use
>> this in future to communicate with me.
>
> I've already there. :-)
>
>> Best regards,
>> David
>>
>>
>> [...]
>
> Regards,
>
> Edward L. Fox
>
Best regards,
David Terei