cssparser-developers Mailing List for CSS Parser (Page 6)

D&J Gredler wrote:
> Comments inline:
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Alan Krueger <al...@tr... 
> <mailto:al...@tr...>> wrote:
>
>     SourceForge supports Subversion now?  I'm happy to hear that.  I'm
>     personally in favor of this, but I like to be sure the longer-term
>     contributors to the project don't have any qualms about such a switch.
>
>  
> Are any of them on this list?
I mass-subscribed all current developers on the project to the list when 
I created it.

Comments inline:

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Alan Krueger <al...@tr...> wrote:

> D&J Gredler wrote:
> > First off, thanks for letting me join the project. So... what's the
> > plan going forward?
> I'm somewhat new to the project myself, though an infusion of those with
> time and energy to contribute is a good thing, IMHO.
> > There are a couple of tasks I'd like to tackle, let me know what you
> > think about each:
> >
> > 1. I'd like to convert the CVS repo to SVN [1]. However, I think you
> > have to be an admin to do this.
> SourceForge supports Subversion now?  I'm happy to hear that.  I'm
> personally in favor of this, but I like to be sure the longer-term
> contributors to the project don't have any qualms about such a switch.


Are any of them on this list?

> > 2. I'd like to convert the build system to Maven 2.
> I'm not familiar with Maven, though I keep meaning to do a little
> research into it.  What would this do for us?


A standardized build lifecycle, automated dependency management, and easier
deployment of releases to the central maven repository. For example, right
now the ant script requires users to intall JavaCC and set a
corresponding environment variable. With Maven2, you configure the JavaCC
plugin to be used during the (standard) generate-sources build phase, and
the plugin and its dependencies are automatically downloaded as necessary.
No need for preconfiguration. Same with JUnit for the unit tests, which get
run during the (standard) test build phase.

> > 3. The build currently excludes DOM and SAC interfaces from the
> > generated JAR.
> >     a. I think DOM exclusion makes sense, but I'd like to just delete
> > these interfaces from the repo.
> >     b. I think SAC exclusion doesn't make sense, and I'd like to
> > include them in the generated JAR.
> I'll need to look at the code to see what you're referring to.


OK, let me know what you think.

> > 4. There aren't hardly any unit tests right now. I'd like to add some
> > base "sanity" unit tests and start to add unit tests for each bugfix.
> I'm very much in favor of unit and standards-compliance tests.


OK.

BTW, did you get a chance to make the mailing list public?

Regards,

Daniel


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Daniel Gredler
http://daniel.gredler.net/

Hi Alan et al,

First off, thanks for letting me join the project. So... what's the plan
going forward?

There are a couple of tasks I'd like to tackle, let me know what you think
about each:

1. I'd like to convert the CVS repo to SVN [1]. However, I think you have to
be an admin to do this.
2. I'd like to convert the build system to Maven 2.
3. The build currently excludes DOM and SAC interfaces from the generated
JAR.
    a. I think DOM exclusion makes sense, but I'd like to just delete these
interfaces from the repo.
    b. I think SAC exclusion doesn't make sense, and I'd like to include
them in the generated JAR.
4. There aren't hardly any unit tests right now. I'd like to add some base
"sanity" unit tests and start to add unit tests for each bugfix.
5. Start fixing bugs!
6. Get a new release out very soon.

Again, let me know what you think of each of these.

Regards,

Daniel


PS: I think the mailing list is private or something, because it's not
visible when you go to http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=82996 . Can you
make it public?


[1]
http://alexandria.wiki.sourceforge.net/Subversion+-+Version+Control+for+Source+Code#tocSubversion%20-%20Version%20Control%20for%20Source%20Code6

-- 
Daniel Gredler
http://daniel.gredler.net/

Testing... first post?

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Daniel Gredler
http://daniel.gredler.net/