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Revision as of 11:13, 17 March 2009
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Part I – Essential Open Source Development Skills and Concepts
- 2.1 Week 1 (Jan 12) - Course Introduction
- 2.2 Week 2 (Jan 19) - Collaborative and Community Development Practices
- 2.3 Week 3 (Jan 26) - Complete distcc Installation, Managing and Building Large Source Trees
- 2.4 Week 4 (Feb 2) - Building Open Office (Continued), Issues
- 2.5 Week 5 (Feb 9) - Navigating The Source Code
- 2.6 Week 6 (Feb 16) - Patches, Build, GDB
- 2.7 Week 7 (Feb 23) - Selecting a Project (Issue)
- 2.8 Week 8 (Mar 02) -
- 2.9 Week 9 (Mar 09) -
- 2.10 Week 10 (Mar 16) - Presenting Issues
- 2.11 Week 11 (Mar 23) - Presenting Issues
- 2.12 Week 12 (Mar 30) - Presenting Issues
- 2.13 Week 13 (Apr 06) - Presenting Issues
Introduction
The course is broken into two parts. First, general open source and and community specific skills and ideas are taught. Students learn how to deal with the tools, techniques, and practices of the OpenOffice.org project and its community. Second, students are taught about extensibility models, and how to write Add-ons and Extensions.
Part I – Essential Open Source Development Skills and Concepts
Week 1 (Jan 12) - Course Introduction
- Course introduction
- Intro to open source
- Intro to the OpenOffice.org project
- OpenOffice.org Overview
- Becoming a contributor
- Sun, Community
- Readings/Resources
- "Cathedral and Bazaar" by Eric Raymond
- "Revolution OS" [film] (see also http://www.revolution-os.com/ or QA 76.9.A25 R68 2003)
- TODO
- Create an account on this wiki for yourself
- Create a personal wiki page on this wiki
- Add a link for yourself to the People page and the Winter 2009 Open Source Students page
- Create a blog (WordPress or Blogger or whatever) and create a feed category or tag called "open source"
- Read the Blog Guidelines for instructions on how to use your blog in the course
- Add your blog feed and info to the Open Source@Seneca Planet List so that it appears in the OpenSource@Seneca Planet
- Blog on your reactions to the readings for this week.
- Begin learning how to use IRC for communication. We'll cover this in detail next week, but it's better to get started early.
Week 2 (Jan 19) - Collaborative and Community Development Practices
- Collaborative development using on-line tools
- Intro to Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
- Blogs and Planets
- Using wikis for collaborative writing
- Wikipedia and MediaWiki
- Intro to course wiki
- "Yes, you can edit it!"
- Common editing tasks, history, and reverting changes
- Watches, Recent Changes
- Comparing selected versions (cf. diff)
- How to Edit a page
- Wikis used by OpenOffice.org
- Readings/Resources
- TODO
- Ensure all TODO items from week 1 are completed
- Comment in at least one other student's blog with your feedback to what they wrote. Reminder: Comments have to be approved for them to be be shown on your blog. Check your blog settings.
- Download the "Sun Microsystems Inc. Contributor Agreement (SCA)" from OpenOffice.Org Programming, sign it and email it to Copyrightfax@sun.com and CC it to Fardad.
- Subscribe to "dev AT education DOT openoffice DOT org" by sending an email to "dev-subscribe AT education DOT openoffice DOT org" and then confirming it by replying to the confirmation email.
- Add this wiki page to your watch list.
- Here is the IP addresses of the CDOT continent for you to log in to!
- Setup distcc on assigned computers
Week 3 (Jan 26) - Complete distcc Installation, Managing and Building Large Source Trees
- Revision Control Systems (RCS)
- Using make to build software
- Intro to make
- Building large open source projects from source
- Readings/Resources (to be completed)
- TODO (to be completed)
- Install distcc to work with all linux boxes at CDOT
- Check out the code with latest milestone from svn://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/tags/DEV300_mXX and time it and blog about it.
- Make two copies of the code and configure them; one to compile locally and other using distcc.
- Start Building
Week 4 (Feb 2) - Building Open Office (Continued), Issues
- Build
- Complete your build and update relative build wiki pages
- If completed move to next platform (at least two)
- Issues
- Filing or submitting rules
- Only one problem per issue
- Summary (recognizable, descriptive, meaningful)
- Able to recreate (step by step instructions)
- Providing samples
- Use attachments
- Avoid links, add relevant info. instead
- Handling and "Life Cycle"
- "Issue Tracker" (a modified version of Bugzilla)
- Filing or submitting rules
- Useful Links for Quality Assurance Testing (QAT/Reporting a Bug)
- TODO
- Complete the build at least on two platforms
- Collaborative-ly create and complete OOo Issues wiki page. A brief document from creating an issue to closing it.
- Learning to be "lost productively"
- Adding to OpenOffice is not like writing a program from scratch
- Leverage the existing code by reading, studying, and copying existing code
- OpenOffice.org source code structure and style
- Developers guide
- OOo directory structure
- Searching for code
- How to make changes
- Hacking procedure on Fedora
- Resources
- TODO
- Complete week 4 TODO
- Run, make a change, build, and then run again
Week 6 (Feb 16) - Patches, Build, GDB
- Guest lecturer Eric Bachard, lead of OOo Education Project
- Patches
- Build
- GDB
- Resources
- TODO
- Complete week 5 TODO
- Test and experiment with patches ie. create, dry run, apply... (blog, wiki)
- Use GDB and run OpenOffice in debug mode (blog, wiki)
Week 7 (Feb 23) - Selecting a Project (Issue)
- Education project
- Become a member: Membership
- Select a project: Available Projects (search for those with Seneca tag)
- Additional projects
- Update Seneca page: Seneca Page On Education Project
- Resources
- TO DO
Week 8 (Mar 02) -
Week 9 (Mar 09) -
Week 10 (Mar 16) - Presenting Issues
- Tue: filling spots
- Thu:
- Name1, Issue, Issue Link.
- Name2, Issue, Issue Link.
Week 11 (Mar 23) - Presenting Issues
- Tue:
- Name3, Issue, Issue Link.
- Tiago, Building OpenOffice on OpenSolaris
- Thu:
- Ladan Zahir, Issue, Issue Link.
- Bartosz Barcicki, Issue, Issue Link.
Week 12 (Mar 30) - Presenting Issues
- Tue:
- Jerry Pau, Issue, Issue Link.
- Name1, Issue, Issue Link.
- Thu:
- Daeseon Moon, Issue, Issue Link.
- Name3, Issue, Issue Link.
Week 13 (Apr 06) - Presenting Issues
- Tue:
- Ladan, Issue, Issue Link.
- Fred Wang, Issue, Issue Link.
- Thu:
- Bartosz Barcicki, Issue, Issue Link.
- Jerry Pau, Issue, Issue Link.