IMO, I think it's better you add the idea to the ideas page. Because if
there's a student with relevant skills may grab the idea willing to
implement it this summer. Whether the idea get through depends on no. of
factors such as the importance of the project idea, whether there's a mentor
willing to contribute, and of course the quality of the student proposals
submitted etc. etc.. Last year, I've got to know from other participants
that some valuable project ideas didn't get selected because there were no
mentors available for that particular time. So, your idea may get selected,
though the priority for this idea seems to be less. I was a GSoC participant
under DocBook contributing to WebHelp last year.
On 02/10/2011 10:45 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> or... of WebHelp
> output.Almost any platform now supports applications written purely in
> HTML, CSS and Javascript and packaged for easy installation. This is
> something worth to explore. And it is more "sexy" then boring
> VisualStudio help ;-)
>
Of course. I'm willing to continue the work from previous year on WebHelp
under GSoC with my mentor from past year, David. If there's any further
features/additions you'd like to see in WebHelp, please fill the
WebHelpGsoc2011 page David provided, in a separate section. The feature
additions needs to be prioritized based on what needs the most.
Regards,
--Kasun
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Kasun Gajasinghe,
University of Moratuwa,
Sri Lanka.
Blog:
http://kasunbg.blogspot.comTwitter:
http://twitter.com/kasunbgOn Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Speights, Scott <
Scott.Speights@haufe-lexware.com> wrote:
> I have to admit the packaging idea for many applications is much cooler
> than just plain old Visual Studio help. I just thought about the MS help
> viewer because we use a lot of Microsoft products and, so, there are some
> good possibilities to do easy integration between our TFS and Share Point. I
> guess I am a little bit personally motivated.
>
> Two other reasons why I found Help 3 a good idea is because there is a
> trend here to use MAML (XML documentation comments) to write real
> documentation (not just create reference documentation), which I would like
> to break, and because the package doesn't look too hard to output. So maybe
> this could be one of the packages in the list even if it is a little bit on
> the boring side...
>
> As for the other formats, wrap them up, I'll take them!
>
> Greetings,
> Scott
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Cramer, David W (David) [mailto:
dcramer@motive.com]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Februar 2011 00:26
> An: Rowland, Larry; Jirka Kosek;
denis.bradford@verizon.net> Cc:
docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org> Betreff: RE: [docbook-apps] Ideas for GSoC 2011
>
> Indeed, that's on the list for WebHelp: "Add an option to use Lucene for
> server-side searches with table of contents state persisted on the server."
>
http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/WebHelpGsoc2011>
> It would be good for situations where running Eclipse as a war is too heavy
> and presumably simpler to get working in a variety of app servers than an
> eclipse.war is.
>
> David
>
>
Original Message-----
> From: Rowland, Larry [mailto:larry.rowland@hp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 5:12 PM
> To: Jirka Kosek; denis.bradford@verizon.net
> Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Ideas for GSoC 2011
>
> I think that's a great idea. It would also be helpful to extend it to
> work as a component in a TomCat environment where Lucene could replace
> the search engine (for larger help environments).
>
> Larry Rowland
>
>
Original Message-----
> From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka@kosek.cz]
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 8:46 AM
> To: denis.bradford@verizon.net
> Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Ideas for GSoC 2011
>
> Denis Bradford wrote:
>
> > That said, Help 3 seems likely to eventually take hold. And since the
> > outputs will be mostly straight XHTML, maybe it's not too risky to get
> > started on the DocBook stylesheets.
>
> Or we can decide not to wait for MS and build just packaging to Web
> Widgets, or Air, or iPad, or Android application, or... of WebHelp
> output. Almost any platform now supports applications written purely in
> HTML, CSS and Javascript and packaged for easy installation. This is
> something worth to explore. And it is more "sexy" then boring
> VisualStudio help ;-)
>
> Jirka
>
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