[Chandler-dev] Re: Developing and extending Chandler (aka becoming a Chandler developer) - where should I start?

[Grant Baillie]

Hi, Marcelo

Sorry about the delay in replying. Indeed, our dev documentation is  
not super up-to-date. Like an old street map, though, much of its  
contents are still useful. Occasionally, of course, driving around  
will reveal some unexpected roadblocks :o.

At the moment, while we are still exploring rearchitecture to address  
performance and scalability concerns, updating it isn't our highest  
priority. However, I/we will endeavour steadfastly to answer specific  
questions you have (either on this list or in IRC). I'd also be happy  
to "meet" with you on IRC if that would work better, too.

In the meantime, a couple of pointers you might find useful:

1) One place to get an idea of how things fit together is the tutorial:

<http://svn.osafoundation.org/chandler/trunk/chandler/distrib/docs/feeds-tutorial.html 
 >

2) Also, a while back on the design list, I posted a list of links:

<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2008-January/008261.html 
 >

--Grant

On 20 Feb, 2008, at 09:05, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:

> Well.. no answers yet, maybe the time to give this thread a *bump* :)
>
> Also, I started reading the article about Chandler's architecture (http://chandler.osafoundation.org/docs/0.7/overview.html 
> ) but even though it says 0.7 in the URL, it mentions 0.6 a lot and  
> seems a little outdated, or is it just my impression?
>
> Chandler is a quite complex piece of software, if OSAF want to get  
> more volunteer developers, documentation regarding the architecture  
> and most important IMHO - quick start guides showing common and  
> proven patterns for setting up the development environment for  
> Chandler are essential.
>
> I already checked out the source tree for the last release. Will  
> play with it in my spare time. Wish me luck!
>
> Marcelo.
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> Hello fellows,
>
> Fistly, I'd like to say that you guys did a great work on version  
> 0.7.4! A minor revision number, but many improvements! I can feel  
> that the GUI is also more responsive. Great! :)
>
> I really would love to start developing for Chandler - maybe some  
> local forks and experiments to better understand its architecture  
> and probably focus on plugin development later. I already program  
> Python (I'm a professional web developer working with Zope/Plone).  
> Where do you guys think I should start? Any articles on the wiki  
> that would worth reading before? Just checkout the last revision and  
> start playing? What infra-structure would be recommended (apart from  
> SVN, of course)?
>
> I use Ubuntu 7.10 as my workstation OS.
>
> Keep up the great work!
>
> Marcelo.
>
>
>
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